CHINA

BRIAN BERLETIC—There is China according to the Western corporate media – a dangerous, backward nation threatening the “rules-based international order.” Then there is China for real. I show a good starting point for people to “travel” to China without leaving their homes to see for themselves what the streets are like in China, the level of development and infrastructure enjoyed there, and a peek into the ordinary lives of people. It begins to provide a point of reference when considering Western propaganda and also begs the question as to “why” we’re being lied to.

The civilisational divide between China and the West, especially its Buddhist community/egalitarian outlook vs the West’s top-down, brutally exploitative way of organising society, necessitates a regime of vicious lies against morally superior societies. A key part of the discussion is Jeff Brown’s explanation of the usually dreaded and misunderstood Chinese social credit system.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has laid out US policy toward the People’s Republic of China – a manifesto upholding Washington’s vow to prevent China from surpassing the US. However, China is a nation with a population several times the size of the US (and the G7 combined) and is making the transition from developing to a developed nation – surpassing the US is inevitable. Only through subversion and conflict can the US even attempt to prevent this – and that is precisely what the US government including the State Department has been doing and is announcing it will continue doing.

Recent elections in the Philippines have paved the way for Chinese-Philippine relations to continue growing. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has expressed a desire to work with China more closely and resolve disputes bilaterally without US interference.

Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton and journalist Robbie Martin discuss how neoconservative US imperialists like Fox News host Tucker Carlson (a CIA applicant) and Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis cynically tried to rebrand as “right-wing populists,” while pushing war on China, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and Palestine. These bogus “populists” portrayed Donald Trump as an “anti-war” president, while he killed top Iranian and Iraqi officials, imposed suffocating sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela, waged a hybrid war on China, bombed the hell out of Afghanistan, expanded the war on Yemen, strongly supported apartheid Israel and Saudi Arabia, militarily occupied Syria and Iraq to take their oil, and tore up arms control agreements with Russia.