CovertAction Bulletin: U.S. Makes Threats While China Plans Its Infrastructure
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 0
The founder of Tech Buzz China, Rui Ma, posted on X after a recent trip to China about her observations on energy there. “Energy is considered a solved problem...
When Imperial China Had a Vietnamese Prime Minister: The Surprising Origins of Meritocracy—And Why It Outperforms the West More Than Ever
Felix Abt - 6
Political legitimacy thrives on competence and executing the people’s will—not on money and endless election campaigns
Long before the West ever seriously discussed equal opportunities, sophisticated concepts of meritocratic selection already existed in China. The Tang Dynasty state, in particular, is considered an early example of a system based on...
Militarism and Diplomacy in the South China Sea: The Propaganda Machine is Mobilized
Andi Olluri - 4
A recent Pentagon conference on psychological warfare noted that the forces of indoctrination “cannot wait until a crisis begins.” A high-ranking chief at the Department of Defense suggested a model for propaganda, in no way new: “Look at marketing…What makes people drink Coke, what makes people drink Pepsi?” In...
China Officially Stands for World Peace Yet Cooperates with U.S. War-Making and Promotes Alienation
Ron Ridenour - 2
My morality and thought processes, and much of my writings have I learned from Che Guevara’s meaning about building a socialist society in which people begin to shed themselves from being alienated commodities.
My evaluation of China is based on what Che meant, in order to develop the “New...
CovertAction Bulletin – China’s COVID Outbreak and Protests: Myths and Facts
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 3
Western media described recent protests in China as “mark[ing] a new awakening” and represent a significant challenge to Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China. After years of leading the world in addressing COVID-19, the Chinese government is indeed relaxing some of the lockdown regulations, but the situation is far more nuanced than the media is reporting.
Shameless Hypocrisy: West Shows Solidarity with Chinese Protesters While it Conceals its Own Earlier Massive Atrocities Against China
Felix Abt - 1
Of course, police brutality against peaceful protesters in China and elsewhere is reprehensible and condemnable. When it happens in China, it is particularly heinous—at least from the point of view of Western mainstream media and politicians who are particularly concerned about human rights in China.
Only exceptionally does a Western...
Western Media Has Not Much Evolved From the Era of the Yellow Peril in Its Routine China-Bashing
Felix Abt - 24
Distorted coverage of alleged removal of Hu Jintao from Communist Party Congress is par for the course along with other recent coverage.
It is common for Western media to automatically imply or label everything that happens in China as “evil.” The most recent case concerns the events surrounding former Communist...
CIA Director William Burns: China Kicking America’s Ass in Tech War—Main Area for Geopolitical Competition
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 2
Effective state planning in China combined with political dysfunction and fanatical anti-government ideology in the U.S., along with overinvestment in the military and anti-intellectualism, accounts in part for wide discrepancy
Rather than playing fair, U.S. government resorts to dirty tactics and sabotage to try to reclaim strategic advantage
In 2015, the...
How FDR Was Manipulated and Betrayed by His Own Naval Intelligence Chief in the Fateful Last Months of WWII
James Bradley - 4
Unknown for decades, declassified documents show that FDR’s mail was deliberately diverted and falsified to prevent a historic meeting with Mao Zedong that might have shortened the war, changed history, and reshaped the modern world.
Historians cite the 1972 meeting between Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon as the original spark...
A Visit to Xinjiang, China Makes Clear that U.S. Government and Media Have Hoodwinked Public into Believing China Committed Genocide Against the Uyghur
Sara Flounders - 3
Politicized Allegations Are False Propaganda Designed to Mobilize Public Opinion Against China in Support of War
U.S. propaganda is powerful. Responding to an increase in U.S. attacks on China, a delegation was organized by the China/U.S. Solidarity Network, which then visited China from May 11 to May 31.
One focus of...









