China now focus of negative narrative.

 ADD CHINA TO THE LIST WITH PUTIN, RUSSIA, TRUMP, MUSK

FORMING PUBLIC OPINION SEEMS TO BE STILL EASY

This week saw the escalation of the rhetoric against China. It is now becoming the number 1 enemy of the U.S. and I suspect democracy. While we have many reasons to be concerned with China, most of those issues were addressed by former President Donald Trump. At that time, it was outrageous for Trump to speak negatively about China. He was Xenophobic and a racist, now anything goes and the coordinated effort is pervasive. One would hope that Americans will soon see the pattern of propaganda and how coordinated it is to form public opinion for the moment, I suspect for some political purpose.

As for Wuhan lab and COVID-19 don't forget this research was funded by the United States and similar research is still going on in other countries, including the United States and Ukraine. 

It is true that China is an economic competitor that was created by the U.S. trade polices that was motivated by greed. It may also be true that China has a China first policy that ignores much of the western worlds view of how China should behave. China is making decisions based on the self interest of China. Actually, that is why we had countries in the first place. 

Trump attempted to rein in China's trade abuses and was demonized for it. At the same time he talked nicely to China, admitting that this imbalance was the fault of the United States, not concerned with the consequences of favoring China with unbalanced trade deals. I suspect that China, which has a long term view of things, rather than the next election cycle, anticipated that the point would come when it would face a backlash from the United States when it eclipsed the United States with its manufacturing abilities.

So now we are in the process of rather than facing China as an economic competitor, we are creating a military enemy. While this may be lucrative for the worlds military industries, it is again not a good long term policy. Talking tough and trash talking a country with the history, culture and negative experience of the past dealings with western governments will most likely set China on an arms race and military expansion that can not be countered by the West. While some believe that manufacturing will now return to the United States, it will not. The U.S. is hamstrung by regulations and policies that have not only made business difficult, it has also, by its socialist policies destroyed this generations work ethic. If this country set out to rekindle the business opportunity and work ethic that made this the greatest industrial power of the past, it would take at least 20 years for that to become reality. I see no indication that anyone in Washington even considers such a change in direction. 

What we see is our delusional leaders embark on a propaganda campaign to form public opinion against China. They believe that perception becomes reality, which it seems to be true in political campaigns, but is just a joke when it comes to adversarial dealings with large foreign powers. We are indeed governed by leaders with the long term  mentality of immature women and children.