Since the election results were apparent by Nov 5, Trump and the GOP have waged a foul-crying campaign which has made a lot of noise but little headway in courts. Don’t forget Trump had alleged frauds well before Nov. To be fair, it was a bipartisan effort to claim election interference, especially supposedly foreign interference, from Russia, Iran, and China. Like Bill Barr proclaiming with a straight face that China was doing the most out of all in the Wolf Blitzer CNN interview, or for the Dem, Russia, Russia, Russia. It is always funny why of the 200 countries on Earth only those 3 are mentioned; apparently all the rest 197 are in a coma. In terms of evidence, little was presented, and it was never sure what the 3 did or why what they did constituted interference. The best we learn was some FB or tweets or media news echoing a few FOX or right-wing stories. Nobody asks how useful those can possibly be, even if one takes the lax position that they are for consumption in the US, instead of, say, foreign reporting for their own countries, whereas at the same time those foreign tweets/reports are outnumbered by American tweets/reports 1 million to 1, and the foreign news services merely repeating, not inventing, American news stories. To use an analogy, outside is pouring, and a guy dumps a cup of water, then we accuse him of wetting the road, or worse, the road is wet because of him.
Back to the election fraud circus. Three weeks in, nothing has come out of it: no real evidence, no real legal arguments, no nothing. Well, what does one expect? Yet the real problem is that so many people believe in it. Even now, having endured so many grand promises from Giuliani and Sidney Powell confirmed by exactly nil, maybe the majority of the 74 million Trump voters still cling to the laughable idea. But anyone with a brain knows from/before the start it is false. If he follows the events long enough, he knows. If he doesn’t follow, he can still learn, with a wide range of sources of information about claims and counterclaims. At least in the US, a strong “opposition” exists to counter any domestic claims.
Nonetheless, in spite of all those “safeguards”, strong rebuttals, and cold, hard numbers, 30-40% of the Americans still believe the election was rigged. Following this light, no wonder the US public or the West doesn’t stand a chance against WCEV (May 1, 2020 blog).
For there is practically zero safeguard against WCEV in the West. “Opposition” doesn’t exist, as anyone who dares not toeing the official lines is accused of un-American or worse. Regarding COVID-19, HK, Xinjiang, or whatever. As much as “normal” Americans looking at the Trump election allegation and its so many believers with utter disbelief, ditto for regular Chinese looking at all the accusations against China and the Americans believing in such. Please not again the stale excuse that the Chinese don’t know because China has no free press, because here lie not judgment calls, but plain, verifiable facts. Not debating whether a certain thing is right or wrong, but rather whether a certain thing ever happens or not. Like not what to do with Iraq with WMD, but whether there was even WMD in Iraq. For example, the Western media swallow the official line that Huawei is insecure, yet neglecting to mention there has been ZERO proof that Huawei or the Chinese government is doing anything even remotely like the US. Remember Snowden (2013)? Even before Snowden, there had been many books about NSA and the movie “Enemy of the state” (1998). And after Snowden, just this month, Denmark (https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/danish-whistleblower-details-nsa-collaboration-submarine-cable-spying-surveillance-data-center/). The worst the West can come up with on Huawei is a couple of years-old bugs, but such technical loopholes, which tech companies didn’t or don’t have? CSCO? MSFT? FB? Yahoo? APPL? GOOG? Don’t we all agree that these American companies have had many more problems over the years than Huawei, a company that has been the most scrutinized since Obama?
The latest topic, not counting COVID-19, is Xinjiang in China, as the West alleged concentration camps, forced labors, and, lately, genocides in Xinjiang. The parallel to the election fraud farce is absolutely striking, in terms of both the absurd claims and the overwhelming evidence against them, except that at most 40% Americans believe the fraud trash, but 100% believe the Xinjiang trash. It is not that refuting evidence has not been provided (in fact, much more exists), yet the West has discounted it completely, only mentioning that the Chinese government denies the charges, but of course it does.
About the concentration camps, the West used to claim 1 million people in the camps, now it is 2 million, and naturally it will swell to 3 million in 2021. Since Xinjiang has about 25 million people, about half minorities (the other half are the ethnic Han Chinese, the only real Chinese, right?), and only the minorities are eligible for camps, even 1 million mean 8% of that population! If we exclude children and the very old (allowing the evil Chinese with minimal morality), that percentage can be as high as 15%, for just 1 million campers, or 30% for 2 million! With so many of the most able bodies locked up, any society would have collapsed long ago, but has any reporting provided any scintillation of evidence remotely for that? Absolutely not. The Xinjiang government never said how many people, but has always maintained there were vacation schools, and the people, some illiterate, some with minor offenses, took classes for a few weeks or months. They had breaks and could go home over the weekends, and the training helped them get jobs afterwards. Confirming these are the many detailed news reports, TV, interviews, even visits by foreign delegations to the schools, but of course it is all Chinese propaganda, so rightfully ignored. Then, what does the West have instead? UK would rather show a video about a “concentration camp” produced by an arrested drug dealer without any indication to any “concentration camp”, or the anti-China ASPI discovered concentration camps all over Xinjiang using satellite images, only upon local examination turning out to be commercial buildings, government offices, elementary schools, high schools, senior facilities, etc. Never mind Xinjiang had retired the vacation schools many months or even years ago. In the West, the same things are called boarding schools. In China, concentration camps.
But how about the eyewitnesses and so-called experts? If one pays any attention, he will recognize it is always the same handful of faces in all those “Hearings” in the US or Europe. For comparison, Giuliani and Powell have produced over 100X more eyewitnesses, affidavits, experts, lawyers, officials including the very top one, Trump, to claim a rigged election! No doubt much more overwhelming and convincing than the Xinjiang gang, right? So shouldn’t we all believe election fraud at least? Another similarity: a certain eyewitness claimed her relatives were killed in Xinjiang, while the Chinese media actually tracked them down and found everybody to be very much alive and well. Incidentally, Giuliani and the GOP have also denounced so many dead people voting. What is wrong with all these dead people?
On to the forced labor accusation, it is not even sure what it means, unless one takes the position that China is one big forced labor camp. Then, what a giant hell, and why singling out Xinjiang! In truth, China is near the end of an anti-poverty drive in a number of provinces, amply and consistently reported over the past several years. The unemployed get trainings, the governments work with businesses to create new jobs, so that the workers and their families get over the poverty line. Xinjiang is just one of these provinces, nothing special about Xinjiang in this aspect. To come up with their narratives, Western reports actually cut-and-paste Chinese news but twist the original meaning to paint a completely opposite picture, knowing their audience don’t read Chinese. Turning a good thing into a bad one. The exact, same mentality leads to a colossal failure in the West’s COVID-19 response.
Like no election is perfect, but people don't void an election or cry foul when vote counts are not 100% precise, nobody argues all is rosy in Xinjiang or China, but is there such a place on Earth? There are still petty thieves, drug dealers, prisons, etc, in Xinjiang, China, or every other country, and conceivably a tiny minority of people just don’t like working. But most would prefer a policy that actively helps the poor, rather than the GOP position that it is your choice or responsibility if you are poor, but gives large tax breaks to the richest of the rich, or for the Dem, lip services but no actions, blaming GOP obstructionism conveniently.
As for the “genocide” in Xinjiang, this is getting more and more ludicrous. But at least they no longer nag about “genocide” in Tibet, so improvement there is, although whether China no longer does genocide in Tibet, or the West just gets tired of talking about it, can’t be certain. Never mind the population growth of the minorities in Xinjiang always greatly outpaces that of the national average, or the Han Chinese in Xinjiang. Even in the most recent years, when the growth does slow, coinciding with faster economic development in Xinjiang. In fact, birth rates in China have been dropping for many years, so somebody must be doing the Chinese genocide! But wait: the birth rate in China is still higher than that in many Western countries. So who is going on a genocidal rampage in the West now? Similarly, who were colluding and how, to vote, or count the votes, massively, illegally in GA, PA, MI, WI, NV, AZ, etc? BTW, don’t bother substituting with the “cultural genocide” nonsense, as vague and lightweight as a snowflake. That is akin to switching from the vast Dem conspiracies to blaming China, Iran, Russia, Cuba, and Venezuela interference for Trump’s loss. But at least Sidney Powell brings two more countries out of coma.
All conspiracy theories are similar, so are their believers. Neither the "Right" nor the "Left" are immune. But if one sees the malarkey in Trump’s claims (at least 60% Americans do), s/he can step back, broaden the view, and easily see the same farce in WCEV.
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