How the West makes Xinjiang propaganda

The moral war against China has been long ongoing, although now at a higher gear with COVID-19 and Xinjiang.  The neo-racism has reached such a fever that both the Left and Right in the US unite 100% in this effort, even when they are at each other’s throat on every other subject. 

Western propaganda employs two forces to paint the alternative facts in Xinjiang: witnesses and experts/MSM reports, while in fact all they need is a goal (war), evidence later (since no evidence, manufacturing evidence).  There are few witnesses to begin with, MSM can’t and won’t verify if they are what they say they are or if they saw what they say they saw, and there is no physical evidence to support their claims.  So the West depends largely on like-minded experts and MSM.  To show how they are all objective, professional, and so on, they often quote Chinese media reports and public or semi-public Chinese documents: see, even the Chinese materials reveal genocide, forced labor, etc!  Unwittingly, however, this process shows exactly how these people are sheer liars and race-cultural warriors instead of real experts or journalists. 

An undeniable, recurring offense is that those “experts”, BBC, CNN, NYT, WP, etc, have always twisted Chinese words and sentences in their English translation to make entirely neutral and even benevolent meanings sinister, for they are counting on their audience not knowing China and not understanding the Chinese language.  The Chinese government and media have refuted the nonsense, and many foreigners who do understand Chinese also denounce the Xinjiang propaganda, some making videos and documenting what they see with their own eyes in Xinjiang (Jan 5, 2022 blog).  Below are two more examples, by no means exhaustive, illustrating perfectly how the “experts” and MSM twisted Chinese words and media reports to portray a narrative in complete opposite of the true events in China.  This is important and also the most obvious, because, whatever witness claims, we can’t evaluate them (the Chinese denial doesn’t mean a thing, right?), but if you twist a word’s meaning and selectively quote documents or edit news reports, the whole world catches you red-handed: the actual smoking gun.

The first example deals with a months-old BBC report that maliciously edited a 2017 Chinese news piece in English (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm5fNV0rSaI).  If one watches the Chinese news (with local people’s original sounds), any reasonable person will come away with the impression how the Chinese government and businesses are working together to help people in Xinjiang alleviate poverty while being considerate and accommodating.  FYI, this is a decade-long anti-poverty drive not specifically designed for Xinjiang, as it applies to other, poor regions in China as well.  China, in many areas, economic and social, still needs development, albeit not in the ways the West describes.  On the other hand, if you watches BBC, you will think evil forced labor in Chinese’s own words!  How did BBC accomplish that?  Well, by selectively editing and stripping the proper context of the Chinese news report, blatantly clear if anyone watches the original Chinese version and compares.  Since both the Chinese report and BBC report are available (and youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm5fNV0rSaI), people can see and decide for themselves who is hijacking the audience, or whether what BBC did here was even journalism or moral.  Chinese media have also amply exposed the practice of BBC in this particular reporting and others.

It is further funny that whenever MSM such as BBC report on China, they knee-jerkingly include a picture of “police”, whereas in many if not most cases what MSM show are actually security guards, unarmed and otherwise not unlike those at malls and clubs in the US.  In China most security guards are employed by private entities and posted at living quarters and large business buildings.  Their main job is checking visitors’ ID and keeping unwanted people out instead of preventing people inside from leaving.  This is a well-known truism in China, but for the West it becomes a sign of something nefarious or a concentration camp.  It is laughable per Chinese security guards’ job description if this is how a concentration or labor camp works.   

The BBC report is by no means an exception but an embodiment of MSM’s SOP.  1) They use meaningless images (e.g., security guards) to convey a hidden message. 2) They might cite two “witnesses” in China without the proper context or even twisting their words.  100x more Chinese will give a different opinion but never receive a fair airing.  3) They will twist and edit public Chinese materials to support their claims, even though the actual language contradicts MSM’s stories.  MSM can get away with this for a long time because the Western audience, the elite and public, are clueless, and fake news that confirms a preexisting misconception is easier and safer than real news that overturns political (in)correctness. Why do they do that?  A major reason is that many MSM reporters in China have a poor grasp of China and the language, but a much bigger contributor to their malpractice is that pandering to the China-bashing political system is self-preservation and good for career advancement in the West.  Fortunately, social media have given voices alternative to MSM, but only if you know where to look and what to believe, such as meeting real people with actual sounds on actual grounds.    

The second example is a detailed analysis, including legal opinions, of the ASPI report on forced labor by Jaq James (https://johnmenadue.com/an-obliteration-of-aspis-uyghurs-for-sale-report-take-two/).  ASPI is an anti-China think tank supported by the Australian and US governments and militaries, so it is hard for any unbiased reader to understand why ASPI should be considered objective in any way and why its report taken as authoritative by anybody.  Still, Jaq James demonstrates the ASPI report is a giant fraud. 

Jaq James composes a detailed pdf file replete with endless examples of ASPI misconducts.  It has everything the first example shows and more.  For example, how ASPI applied the same old trick as MSM, scary buzzwords such as police, watchtower, fences, etc, to manipulate readers.  How ASPI used satellite images to identify concentration or whatever camps, hoping nobody would bother to check.  But when people did check, nothing of sort existed.  How ASPI stirred up a situation of damned if Chinese do, damned if Chinese don’t.  And how ASPI and WP colluded and pumped out irrelevant and misleading information about restaurants and job ads and questionable “witnesses” that shed little if any light on the so-called forced labor.  It is astounding that none of ASPI’s claims is even remotely valid, and the most apparent, objective, unfalsifiable, and very abundant evidence of ASPI’s fraud is how it twisted Chinese language in Chinese documents and news reports with mood-turning, fear-inducing, evil-sounding English words and sentences.  This last part is the most revealing of the mindsets of the ASPI authors and MSM in general.  It would have been hilarious if the consequence is not so dire. American officials never miss a beat to proclaim a "rule"-based international order, but how about a truth-based order first?

We can rate offenses and crimes from 1-10, with 1 as the least serious, such as pickpocketing and shoplifting, and 10 the most serious, such as wars, instigating wars, genocide, etc.  Inventing a false pretense like Iraqis WMD for war is the same as firing the shots for war, also a 10, because no war without a pretense.  Akin to the mastermind of a murder being punished like the one who pulls the trigger.  Similarly, and according to The 11th Commandment (Feb 7, 2021 blog), ASPI, BBC, and MSM who knowingly and deliberately poison the water for a future war are criminals rated 10.  It is these people who are committing grave human rights violation in Xinjiang.  Free speech is no cover for crimes by those who know better.