Sometimes it is usseful to speak softly too. But in the present propaganda struggle, the other side has no interest in playing diplomacy at all. Their only intent is to cause maximum irritation and embarassment. In such a situation, I agree with Zhao that it needs to be firm and reasonable. It just happens that the reasoned arguments of Zhao needled the whites at least as much as their propaganda was intended on China. Then, it's just too bad for them.
As early as Bush ver. 2.0, the whites had openly declared that they will not allow a "peer competitor" to emerge. (China was too weak to be any "peer competitor" of Uncle then.) Obanana, Dtrum, Brandon all have said the same in slightly different ways. So, China should not foster any hope that the other side will become reasonable again. It will be an intense struggle in all departments (propaganda, economic, technology...etc) all the way from now on:
{Although some observers believe that the ongoing tensions between the US and China are just a power struggle, it is very naive to dismiss the fact that race plays a significant role in the former’s strategic approach toward the latter.
“The idea is to knock out China as an economic rival, to ‘colonize’ China and make Chinese industry work for us. Racism and xenophobia is not the source of the problem – but a useful tool to demonize China,” Professor Alfred Maurice de Zayas, a former UN consultant, said during an interview this writer conducted for Asia Times in May.
Although it may sound controversial to some US apologists, it was reported in April last year that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s team had been preparing a strategy for China based on an idea rooted in racial differences between the two countries.
“This is a fight with a really different civilization and a different ideology, and the United States hasn’t had that before,” Kiron Skinner, the former director of policy planning at the State Department, said in 2019 at a security forum in Washington.}
{In fact, this approach should not come as a surprise, as the ongoing racial tensions in the US, started by the brutal killing of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin, have exposed the true colors of the nation, which built its might on the back of slaves from Africa brought to a land formerly belonging to indigenous peoples who were now residing in reservations and had no real influence in the land taken from them.
The white supremacist identity, which gave birth to the so-called “New World,” appears to be the US modus operandi not only in its internal dealings with non-Caucasian inhabitants (including Asian-Americans), but also external conduct toward countries like the Middle Kingdom.}
{Failure to recognize this reality by China, or to think that the desire to destabilize the country is limited only to President Donald Trump’s administration, may be the beginning of the end of the only superpower that can prevent the US from turning rest of the world into one big reservation for the indigenous nations around the globe.}
