New published directives to silence bloggers reporting from China

Do you know what I could use right now? Yup. I could use a nice hot bowl of Chili, with thick globs of cheese on top, and a side of crunchy garlic bread. That’s what.

And…

What I most like about this chili is substituting nice loaves of garlic bread to eat instead of the standard fare of crackers, goldfish crackers, or Doritos chips. I like nice garlic bread. Call me strange, but that’s what I like.

I like to eat it with a nice piping HOT cup of coffee, myself. But you know a icy cold beer, or a nice wine in a normal everyday glass is fine as well.

The point of this is to eat and enjoy.

And what ever you do, turn off the “news”. It’s all lies.

As the United States collapses it is IMPERATIVE that the inmate / serfs are kept ignorant and unaware of the life in the rest of the world. They must still believe that American “democracy” is the best!

Don’t you know!

The Western elites have so successfully numbed their populations, so instilled deep apathy within the masses that even their glibly constructed propaganda has lost all potency.

Their propaganda is so far removed from the lives and concerns of ordinary people that it is only the elites who care about it.

Like the orobouros, the elites produce, consume and finally become their own propaganda.

Regardless, the world moves on ...

Posted by: Arch Bungle

A Comparison

Here’s Image Search for “China”.

Here’s an image search for “China BBC”

Why…

bottom line - stereotyping china in the worst possible way in the western media is the name of the game.. if people can't pick up this much, we're all in trouble... we went thru this with the msm doing the same with russia, iran and venezuala for how long? now china.. who whudda thunk it? lol..

Posted by: james | Dec 20 2021 18:24 utc | 7

Why so out of touch. Why so focused on discord?

It’s an American government directive.

The West must look to be the leader, and the enemies of the West must be painted in the most horrible images imaginable, and any one who shows the reality MUST be silenced.

In a way, and for what is a rather small and inconsequential event after all, this story is a very nice illustration of the entire western narrative building system in action. Lie, exaggerate the lie, when called on it double down on the lie from another angle, attack strawmen, and then perhaps, months later, admit some version of the facts buried in an inside page with no correction of the original story.

In the meantime, of course, the concept of China as this authoritarian boogieman continues to be implanted and nurtured in the western mind, which is the primary target of all this, to the effect that majorities now view China as the new and forever enemy, against whom we obviously need to spend trillions of dollars preparing for Armageddon, which was the objective all along.

And so, once again, the Times and the rest of the approved media have earned their keep.


Posted by: Caliman | Dec 20 2021

Funding for articles, media and “news” to counter the Chinese positive good stuff…

Your life in Shanghai sucks, okay?!: The West’s push to ban good news about China online

By Andy Boreham

I bet you never knew, before this week, that your life here in China is so miserable.

This week, The New York Times and an Australian think tank released their coordinated reports on foreign “influencers” and the supposed threat they pose.

Their verdict: Any positive news from China must necessarily be fake, funded by the Communist Party of China, and therefore should be labeled as “misinformation.”

The New York Times released a story titled “How Beijing Influences the Influencers,” which was created and strategically released in coordination with a report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), a think tank that is largely funded by the arms industry (no, seriously).

Their report is called;

 "Borrowing Mouths to Speak on Xinjiang."

Both reports posit foreign influencers in China posting positive and happy content online as agents of the state who need to be stopped at all costs.

Their crimes, according to The New York Times: painting

"...cheery portraits of life as foreigners in China."

They go on:

"Most of the YouTubers have lived in China for years and say their aim is to counter the West's increasingly negative perceptions of the country."

Evil stuff.

The ASPI report mainly focused on foreign influencers who have created content on Xinjiang. I happened to be included in their list because of some videos I made in Xinjiang exploring the ancient city of Kashgar and Urumqi, the regional capital.

They argued that content like mine aims to

 "reframe international narratives by displaying a wholly positive image of life in Xinjiang."

But here’s the thing: Neither Xinjiang nor any other part of China deserves to be framed in an overwhelmingly negative light just because the West says so, regardless of all the hideous accusations they make about mass murder, genocide or whatever else.

And just for the record, as someone who has visited Xinjiang, works for Chinese state media and has read all the reports under the sun, I wholeheartedly believe there is no systemic mass murder or genocide going on in Xinjiang.

If I came across anything to make me believe otherwise I wouldn’t be here doing what I do.

If you don't find that attempt by the West to monopolize the "truth" about China, from outside China, to be absolutely terrifying, then you clearly haven't read "1984." 

-Andy Boreham

The New York Times particularly took aim at videos like mine that portrayed Xinjiang without couching the entire content in politics, mass murder and genocide.

They attacked videos from a YouTube travel channel called The China Traveler because the videos were fun and colorful, and not covered in blood and filmed using the infamous “BBC gray” filter.

The "BBC Gray filter" is a real thing. They take stills from blogger's you-tube videos and turn the skies grey, turning the green trees grey, and turn the flowers ugly red grey.

In the videos, the host

"raves about the cuisine and interviews locals about how their lives have improved."

Great, sounds just like any other travel video on YouTube.

Oh, but they go on:

"Topics like re-education camps do not come up."

Wow.

Let me re-package what they are expecting of China travel vlogs and put the same requirements on US content, just to show you the level of ludicrous we’re dealing with here.

There's a consistent drum beat here from the U$A's propaganda driven MSM; Try to destroy the reputation of any nation who's seen as a competitor in commerce, or political system.

Posted by: vetinLA | Dec 20 2021 19:19 utc | 17

Most average people would concede that the US total messed up their response to COVID-19. Already around 800,000 people have died because of the pandemic. That’s nearly 1 million people – a tragedy in anyone’s eyes.

Using ASPI’s logic, no YouTube travel vlogs about the US should be posted without first detailing the 800,000 who have died unnecessarily from COVID-19.

China, China
Regime, regime.
Tennis player, rape, rape
China, China, regime, regime

This is the narrative tinnitus miracle and it is all that really matters.

Posted by: robin | Dec 20 2021 20:25 utc | 23

Chicago is, in many people’s estimations, a dangerous and lawless place. Innocent people are gunned down on the streets there every single week. Does that mean US travel vloggers visiting the city and profiling its amazing nightlife, art scene, food and people are spreading propaganda and “attempting to change the narrative” if they don’t also talk about the hideous crime rate there? Of course not!

So why do they expect the same from China content?

Basically what The New York Times, ASPI and other Western organs are suggesting with their reports is that any positive news or content coming from China is fake and that it is propaganda.

They want content like mine – which simply showed two beautiful cities in Xinjiang in order to entice other foreigners to go and see the place with their own eyes – to be labeled as “misinformation” and flagged by Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the like.

"Platforms could explore the introduction of specific policies about misleading information,"

the Aussie think tank suggests.

"Such policies could include enforcement measures against violations similar to those that Twitter has implemented for sharing false or misleading information about COVID-19."

If you don’t find that attempt by the West to monopolize the “truth” about China, from outside China, to be absolutely terrifying, then you clearly haven’t read “1984.”

A well funded effort

Just came across this 1.5-minute clip of China’s former ambassador to the US talking about China’s need to pick a careful path in the face of US hostility.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OQwY6ohoys

Guess they see that the US is stopping at nothing, sparing no effort, to demonize China at every opportunity, and seem to be aware that this will likely get worse over the next few years.

After all, earlier this year, the US openly announced $1.2 billion for anti-China narrative efforts over the next four years (2022-2026) by the US Agency for Global Media …

The New York Times is one of the media herd leaders, and the establishment news media across the West – including here in Canada – all obediently follow the NYT/WaPo/CNN lead with no questions asked …

Orwell’s Ministry of Truth is well-funded and well-staffed. We will likely be getting even more Two Minutes Hate sessions over the next few years.

Posted by: Canadian Cents | Dec 21 2021 3:42 utc | 49

It is purposeful distortions to keep Americans (the West) ignorant.

Here’s an interview with a VOA journalist. VOA is the US governments main propaganda arm that oversees most all “news”. It is funded by the NED, which is turn is funded out of the CIA. Listen and learn. video 60MB

America is a military empire

Toivos | Dec 20 2021 18:09 utc | 5

". . . both of those US national propaganda rags are whipping up support for war against both China and Russia. I do hope that they begin to realize that the US will lose those wars as well before it is too late."

Yes it is. Obey or be crushed. Video 9MB

It’s all “us” vs. “them”.

Actually it has nothing to do with winning or losing. The US oligarchy simply demands that millions of working taxpayers continue shoveling their little bits of money to the billionaires, and the fastest and easiest way to get that done is to start wars. They don't care who wins or loses.


Posted by: AntiSpin | Dec 20 2021 20:53 utc | 26

And it is very dangerous and at all levels. Domestically and internationally. This keeps the wealthy in control while the rabble all fight amongst themselves. video 5MB

Anti China or not. You judge.

Face the realities of the world today. Not what you want to see, but what actually exists now today. video 3MB

Americans view war as normal

It is not. No. No. No. It is not normal, it should never be considered normal. video 8MB

The truth about America

Long, but accurate. video 160MB

Ah but it’s a changing…

I posted a take via The Guardian ( the cross Atlantic NYP) in the open thread. 

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/12/the-moa-week-in-review-ot-2021-099.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02942f8f2cb4200c#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02942f8f2cb4200c

What is revealing about this ‘pushback’ against western propaganda is that it is part of a full spectrum attack on western/nato hagemony that has been well advertised by the Empire killers Russia and China for many months now. 

From the initial meetings with the new ‘sane’ Biden administration with the latest NSA and State department apparatchiks to the now very public documents of surrender which have been presented to them.

Of course it is couched in a manner that doesn’t expect an unconditional surrender but it does require it.

What I perceive is that over the last decade the Chinese and Russians played the whipping boys to the economic onslaught from some obscure department of the US state that arbitrarily imposed sanctions and stole money from sovereign states because they could.

It has been Imperial hubris.

The smart humans chose to use that hubris against the perpetrators. 

Now as they pretended to cower under that onslaught they not only firmed up their collective military spine but have enrolled many other countries who have been subjected to similar economic actions. 

They have set up alternative world banking! 

They have also invested heavily and long term without onerous terms that the Workd Bank imposes. 

They have given vaccines for pretty much free. 

Now they are taking on the major force the West/nato Empire has built into what they believe is a dominant weapon - the power of the ‘blag’ the news & cultural hagemony. 

The West/Nato have been allowed to lull into a false sense of that power of Narrative control over populations. 

Unfortunately it only works on the West/nato populations who all consume the same monopoly media guff. 

Many alternative platforms have been set up and largely free of control. 

Except for interference by the Western platforms and their controllers.

It is now moving to a open full spectrum, all frontal counter attack. 

The last time it stopped in Berlin by pre agreement. This time ...with a modern China economic and human superpower and all the allies they are daily accumulating it is a done deal.

History may yet still record the Peng Shuai moment as a momentous point in this war of Empires.

Posted by: D.G. | Dec 21 2021 1:23 utc | 43

The BOTTOM LINE

Yes, he spells it out completely. This is the reality. Pure and simple. China has a political system that is determined by real practical results. Not on some nebulous ideal that can never be obtained, measured or implemented.

video 4MB

Conclusion

Enough of this bullshit. Within a few years any accurate reporting of China will be effectively squashed, and zero free press will be permitted. It’s all in the pipe and going to happen.

The methodology for getting around the First Amendment (In the Bill of Rights) is to have all the Social Media Platforms suppress any bloggers reporting on China unless it meets the Government approved narrative.

It’s all the lead up to war, don’t you know.

Of course, by then either [1] the Second civil war will be a raging, or [2] a nuclear exchange will take place. In which even there won’t be much of anyone reading the “news”.

Shee-it!

As I have said earlier in other posts, there are adults “in the room” who have the entire situation at hand. Let the USA isolate itself. Let it try to start a war. let it trash about and thrash, and squirm.

It’s not going to make a difference. It really won’t.

History is clear.

There just isn’t any way to escape the fated programmed obsolesce. There is no escape.

It’s time for me to chill and smunch. I’ll tell you what. Enjoy where you are right now. Enjoy who you are with right now. Enjoy what you have right now. Enjoy the weather, no matter what it is right now.

Right now.

Food, movie, chat with a friend, a coffee, a bike ride, a workout, a park adventure, a beer in a pub, some sex, hanging out with your beloved pet, and a good book. What ever you do, do it right now.

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