Bloomberg CIA Apologia Accidentally Vindicates China's Strict Domestic Policies
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In a new article promoting the CIA's new mission center focused on China and the need to pour more resources into countering Beijing, Bloomberg also accidentally makes the case that many of the Chinese government's controversial domestic policies are entirely justified and completely necessary.
Citing anonymous government officials alongside bloodthirsty psychopath John Bolton, the article "China Is Evading U.S. Spies — and the White House Is Worried" argues that "a stronger pivot to China can’t come soon enough" and reminds readers of last year's House Intelligence Committee report which claimed that “Absent a significant realignment of resources, the U.S. government and intelligence community will fail to achieve the outcomes required to enable continued U.S. competition with China on the global stage.”
But in their efforts to justify the need for greater focus on espionage campaigns in China, the article's multiple authors explain that the US intelligence cartel has been floundering on that front precisely because of the authoritarian policies which western institutions have been aggressively criticizing China for implementing.
"Xi’s sweeping efforts to change China’s domestic politics and consolidate his control also have taken a toll on American intelligence," the article says. "The shift from a system of 'collective' leadership under former Presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao toward one dominated by Xi means that the CIA has had to go from focusing on the inner circles of seven or even nine top leaders to, effectively, just one."
"Chinese academia, the media and civil society organizations are all closely controlled by the government, further compounding the challenge of reporting on the country," the article adds.
"CIA officers in China face daunting challenges posed by China’s burgeoning surveillance state, which has blanketed Chinese cities with surveillance cameras and employs sophisticated facial recognition software to track threats," claim the article's authors.
Bloomberg explains that China's anti-corruption measures have made it much harder to recruit CIA assets, writing, "Xi’s broad anti-corruption campaign, which has punished more than 1.5 million officials, has also led to greater scrutiny of Chinese officials’ income, making payments to potential sources far more problematic, two former officials said."
"Those efforts were detailed extensively in 2017 by the New York Times, which said as many as a dozen U.S. sources were executed by China, with others jailed, in what represented one of the worst breaches ever of American spying networks," the article also notes.
So Beijing's anti-corruption crackdowns, widespread surveillance and strict control over Chinese society is making it harder for the CIA to undermine that nation, and now the CIA is expressing its frustration through the billionaire media. Which shows that China is acting entirely in self-defense when it implements these policies.
When people complain about Chinese authoritarianism and lack of transparency, what they're really complaining about is that China is defending itself against a nonstop assault from the US-centralized empire which seeks to bring Beijing to its knees.
The heavy-handed domestic policies of US-targeted nations like China are not morally comparable to the censorship, propaganda, secrecy, surveillance and other authoritarian measures you see in the US and its lackey states, because US-targeted nations are actively defending themselves against a hostile foreign aggressor who won't be content until all nations on Earth bow to its dictates.
These are not the same thing. One is a weaker government acting defensively, the other is a globe-spanning power structure that if given the opportunity will topple your government using mass-scale psyops, espionage, special operations, color revolutions and proxy conflicts to force your nation and its people to subordinate its interests to those of the US empire. Sure it would be great if all the world's populations were free to say and read and do whatever they want without government interference, but to pretend we live in a world where populations aren't deprived of those freedoms in response to a nonstop assault by a global juggernaut is to live in a fantasy land.
There is a slow motion third world war underway between the US-centralized empire and the few remaining nations which have successfully resisted its aggressive attempts to absorb them into its folds. Nations like the US use propaganda, censorship, secrecy and surveillance to advance those aggressions, while nations like China use them defensively. This is a fundamental difference, and to pretend it isn't is to ignore the reality of the power dynamics at play.
It's so silly how the US war machine uses the word "defense" to describe the machine by which it inflicts nonstop aggression upon the world. "Department of Defense". "The defense industry". The US war machine doesn't "defend" anything, it attacks relentlessly and maliciously. Defense is what the nations who resist those aggressions are doing.
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Am I not supposed to notice that the same folks who want me to jump up and down about China mistreating their Muslim minority are the ones who bankroll and defend Israel's genocide of the Palestinians, and have for decades?
As you asked in a previous post, how is the CIA still a thing? We live in miserable times, where even the bullshit is unworthy of us.
One of the greatest psyops in the Western world is the anti-China psyops. And it makes sense considering China actually outsmarted the Anglo-American establishment by not remaining a cheap labor economy. They used that system to leap frog, and have as a result raised 600 million people out of poverty.
Naturally, China has some problems, but would China have the kind of crackdown and surveillance systems they had if there wasn’t an Anglo-American oligarchy trying to subvert it throughout not only the 20th century, but the 19th century as well.
Mao was crazy, but the reason he still gets respect is because he ended what the Chinese call “the century of humiliation.” The British Empire had for a long time been enslaving China through their opium trade. When China tried to crack down and prevent opium from entering the country, the British sent hundreds boats and blew apart China’s navy. They were completely enslaved.
Not surprisingly though, the Anglo-Americans were gaga over Mao because he wanted to create a permanent serf system, with the idea of the “sacred peasant,” and the murder and destruction of anything smacking of Confucianism and intellectual culture ie anyone with reading glasses.
China and it’s cultural revolution was the model for the kind of feudal serf and slave master economy the financial oligarchy is now going full hog trying to impose under the guise of a “Great Reset.”
China has also been a historically closed off society, so the Belt and Road Initiative and nation building programs are really seen as an existential threat, because they’re actually building major infrastructure and helping other nations industrialize ie become self-sufficient economies.
The problem is people in the West seem to only know how to think in Hobbesian terms. Any nation that helps others develop must be looking to enslave and dominate them. However, the reality is that China woke up to the fact that if all the nations in its regions go to hell, then it’s screwed… It’s future depends on having viable allies and in-tact nations outside its borders. The imperial policy is to unleash all hell and have that tide of chaos swallow up China, and destroy opposition from any sovereign nation left.
All this seems to be lost on the people who just thing it’s all one big conspiracy, the new world order controls China, “it’s all part of the plan.”
In that respect, this kind of pure nwo conspiracy thinking is really destructive because it makes the Anglo-American financial oligarchy seem a lot more powerful and smarter than it actually is. It’s actually desperate, and the Great Reset is its last ditch effort to flip the chessboard and impose a global Malthusian depopulation policy. If all of Asia industrializes and has sovereign nations popping up everywhere, then the great game geopoliticians and the financial oligarchy have lost “the world Island”—at which point their done. There will be no possibility of maintaining their one world order. It would be game over.