Fw. dari WA-Grup:
Why is it that the West is
so preoccupied with demonizing
China?
Professor Dennis
Etler
American political analyst who holds a doctorate in
anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley
As I See It:
Why is it that the West is so preoccupied with demonizing
China? The usual answer is that China's
economic growth is challenging Western global hegemony which has held sway for
at least 250 years. The Chinese military has also reached parity with that of
the West, so it is no longer subject to Western intimidation and bullying. All
that is true and reason for the West to want to savage China and portray it as
the root of all evil.
But there is one other consideration that must be
taken into account. It's not only China's economic prowess and military might
that frightens the West, it is also China's success as a nation versus the
West's failure.
Moreover, China has forged a society in which there
is harmony between its different ethnicities in contrast to the systemic racism
that characterizes Western society.
Western ruling elites and their media mouthpieces
do not want to acknowledge the fact that China has eliminated extreme poverty
while more and more of their own people descend into poverty. They do not want
to admit that China has constructed a 21st century infrastructure while they lag
far behind. They do not want to confront the fact that the Chinese people
⁹overwhelmingly support their government while people in the West have lost
confidence in their own, they do not want to accept that China beat COVIDC-19
while they haven't, and finally they are loathe to accept the fact that a
non-white nation has out performed them and will continue to do so into the
foreseeable future.
In order to deflect attention away from these
truths the West has concocted a series of lies and slanders that allow them to
deny reality. Instead of poverty alleviation the West imagines "genocide."
Instead of the advances in HSR, EVs, alt-energy and e-commerce they focus on "IP
theft," instead of a socioeconomic system that serves the people, they accuse
China of forced labor and forced sterilizations. Instead of seeing China as
defending its national sovereignty in the South China Sea, Hong Kong and Taiwan,
it's called an aggressor.
All the China-bashing serves multiple
purposes but ONE of the main reasons is to make sure that people in the West do
not get to hear nor see what the real China is all about because if they did
they may get ideas that the Western elites don't want then to have, such as
socialism works for the betterment of the 99% while capitalism works primarily
to enrich the 1%.