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When you’re working with the U.S. to destabilize China, no lie is big enough or bad enough for U.S. proxies.
The world’s largest U.S.-backed NGO advocating regime change in China is sounding the alarm: “400 Million Chinese died from the corona virus” — and no one noticed…
No one but the the leader of Falun Dafa, or Falun Gong, a pseudo-religious sect banned in China. This bizarre unsubstantiated claim was circulated by their newspaper, the Epoch Times. Reports in Western media all too often reflect the narrative of the U.S. political elites, who are of course generally at loggerheads with the Global South with Russia and China in particular being the target of a concerted and well funded propaganda operation.
Bizarre claims blend seamlessly with the Western media’s already blatantly biased portrayal of China
Jennifer Zeng, prominent Falun Gong activist and journalist for the Epoch Times and other Falun Gong media is a “key player in a media network that plays an increasingly important role in conspiracies about China” according to MIT Technology Report, put it this way in her tweet:
This may come as a surprise especially to readers of the German-language edition of Epoch Times, which has always been very critical of the official Covid policy of European governments, including the benefits of vaccination, allegations of cover-ups relating to side effects and exaggerated case numbers. However, when it comes to China, the vengeful sect and its central organ, especially its Chinese-language edition, settle accounts with this country every day and spread the most frankly absurd horror stories: Shortly before the recent Chinese Party Congress, for example, the Epoch Times reported that Chinese leader Xi Jinping had been thrown into prison and that the country was in turmoil.
With “400 million Chinese Covid deaths” all horror records are now surpassed. Just like the mainstream media, which also report completely one-sidedly and almost exclusively negatively about China, the newspaper failed to mention that
• Beijing recommended vaccination (with traditional vaccines using the inactivated virus to stimulate the body’s immune system against the Corona virus), but there has never been compulsory vaccination in “dictatorial” China;
• Beijing did not use its population as “guinea pigs” for previously untested mRNA vaccines (that it did not allow to be used in China), even though China had also been researching mRNA drugs for several years (possibly the health authorities were concerned that a lack of safety data precluded their use);
• There had never been a nationwide lockdown: people have been able to move freely in many parts of the country over the last three years, and many have not even worn masks, and there are also YouTube videos where you can see this (this is perhaps comparable to the Ukraine war: if you consume the completely one-sided, biased mainstream media, you get the impression that the whole of Ukraine is being bombed by Russia — when in fact only a small part is affected);
• The plan to open up the country had been in place for some time, and the protests only accelerated its implementation;
• Draconian measures were taken because of the lack of hospitals and intensive care units (compared to other countries, China has far fewer hospitals);
• In addition, the number of hospitals built was increased, the supply of medicines was greatly improved, and 30 percent more new intensive care units were built in preparation for the lifting of the Covid measures (compare this to Germany, for example, where hospitals have recently run out of ICU beds due to covid cases).
• The protests were not an isolated incident, as there are hundreds of protests every day across the country, most of which are settled at the local level with concessions from the authorities — see, for example, the following tweet from Nury Vittachi, Hong Kong-based book author, journalist and editor of Fridayeveryday:
The Falun Gong group is often compared to Jehovah’s Witnesses or Scientology. The group uses a form of qigong, an ancient Chinese art for maintaining health and healing that incorporates meditation, controlled breathing and movement exercises, which gives it a certain credibility. Falun Gong mainly targets older and less educated Chinese, who make excellent recruits for any cult that uses superstition and manipulation techniques. It is a “religion” that keeps fooling people into thinking that believing it will make them happy, cure all of their ailments, or help them survive the end of the world. Perhaps other religions follow a similar pattern; however, when they, like Falun Gong, require expensive tuition to achieve these goals, it immediately raises suspicion that they are fraudulent organizations focused on profit rather than wellbeing.
In China, proselytizing is permitted privately and in officially recognized public places of worship including temples, churches and mosques; but it is forbidden to simply hit up strangers on the street and evangelize. Printing and distributing evangelical newspapers in public places is also prohibited. State authorities began to target Falun Gong after the group made statements to the effect that “God does not like the government,” “the government will be punished wickedly,” and even that an earthquake that killed thousands of people was “God’s punishment for the government.” The laws that eventually forbade Falun Gong were founded on the tenet, “Believe what you want, but don’t try to impose it on others.” This is practiced by all of China’s traditional Three Teachings: Daoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism, and the current Chinese government has simply adopted it as a key principle for maintaining social harmony from previous governments.
Deliberately distorted image of China
So there is little connection between this practice and the “communist government”; it has always been a Chinese tradition. And speaking of “communist” China, it is worth mentioning in passing what Roger Köppel, editor-in-chief of “Weltwoche“, recently reported from the World Economic Forum: “Ursula von der Leyen (the top official of the European Union, who, by the way, was not elected by EU citizens, F.A.) blows the whistle on the planned economy, China’s Vice Premier Liu He pays homage to the market. Topsy-turvy worlds in Davos!” So it seems to be dawning on some that the nation that now has the largest middle class in the world has little in common with Mao’s former China.
The globally organized Falun Gong movement, which claims to have about 100 million followers worldwide, including a strong following in the Chinese diaspora in the United States and Canada, not only peddles its message but also uses a variety of platforms to spread it: It includes newspapers, television and radio stations, social media, email, text messaging, brochures, cultural events and more. Chinese tourists traveling abroad are also frequently approached by Falun Gong supporters. Incidentally, the teachings of Falun Gong forbid democracy because it contradicts the will of Heaven, as well as premarital and extramarital sex, homosexuality, and science. Many followers refuse to take medication when they are seriously ill — because they believe that their God (the Falun Gong leader, a former Chinese soldier who lives in New York) and his supernatural power would protect and heal them.
Moreover, some people in China and other countries went so far as to quit their jobs or drop out of school to practice Falun Gong at home in order to find the “ultimate truth”. Others persuaded their relatives, friends, neighbors and work colleagues to follow them in order to escape the “hell after death”.
Its certainly a pity that Falun Gong’s teachings were not embraced by the 400 million Chinese people who according to them died from the Corona virus; otherwise, they might have lived happily ever after?
Who’s pulling the strings?
Now to the more serious and important question: who has a stake in a globally influential group that is fiercely hostile to China and seeks to topple its government?
After Russia and Germany (whose so-called economic miracle was conveniently ended by Washington by preventing it from profiting from cheap Russian raw materials, particularly energy), the United States government is currently employing a variety of overt coercive measures to maintain its waning global hegemony and restrain a much greater potential rival, China (embargoes, sanctions, economic isolation and forced decoupling, military tensions near China to frighten off its foreign investment and trading partners etc.).
In addition, the same shadowy forces are working covertly and incessantly to increase tensions and other obstacles inside and outside China so that the country’s leadership will face even more difficulties.
The Chinese government, like any other government that the U.S. government targets, faces a powerful, well resourced foe with extensive subject-matter expertise:
The CIA has successfully overthrown many foreign governments. The easiest and safest method, according to their playbook, is to fund the opposition. This strategy can range from funding opposition organizations to fomenting and directing military coups, as was the case in South Vietnam in 1963, for example, when Vietnamese generals were helped to remove its leader Ngo Dinh Diem. Similar incidents also occurred in Guatemala and Brazil, to name a couple.
Another choice is the assassination of leaders in order to install a U.S.-approved party, as happened in 1961 with Congo’s first democratically elected leader, Patrice Lumumba. The attempt was unsuccessful because there was strong public support for Lumumba’s political legacy, which prevented a change in the status quo and resulted in a 4-year period of unrest.
Another favourite CIA regime change tactic is economic assassination, which involves targeting the target nation’s financial systems to cause the economy to collapse and to weaken the political leadership. For example, the CIA was directed by U.S. President Nixon to “make Chile’s economy scream.” In parallel, the CIA worked with Chilean opposition organizations to hasten the overthrow of the democratically elected president in 1973.
It also purchases newspapers, TV, and radio stations to sway public opinion and spread anti-government rhetoric, as it did, for instance, in Italy, where it also supported terrorists to keep the nation from moving toward the then US-critical political left.
Unsurprisingly, it employs a significant number of American and foreign journalists. And when the mainstream media, for once, has the audacity to report that the “CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount a covert ‘black’ operation to destabilize the Iranian government,” it is not the operation that is condemned, but the one who broke the bad news that receives criticism (prompting the cowed media to remove the news item from its pages).
The CIA and the Pentagon together play an important role in extensive influence operations, including on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook where they make extensive use of fictitious accounts. Some of the accounts promoted allegations that Iran was harvesting the organs of Afghan refugees while others promoted false accusations that Iran was “threatening Iraq’s water security and flooding the country with crystal meth.”
Another method the agency has used to overthrow governments is by inciting panic and social unrest through street protests. Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, was deposed in 1953 by the CIA and British intelligence. Millions of dollars were sent to Iran in order to bribe his supporters and fund street demonstrations. A more recent U.S.-sponsored coup d’état was carried out in 2014 against Victor Yanukovych’s duly elected government. This was the result of decades of work to install a pro-Western, anti-Russian government in Kiev.
An extensive U.S. arsenal that includes secret war, support for separatism and terrorism, and subversion against China
The CIA Tibetan program, also known as the “Secret War,” was a nearly two-decade-long anti-Chinese covert operation with a focus on Tibet. It was based on agreements between the U.S. government and brothers of the 14th Dalai Lama and included “political action, propaganda, paramilitary and intelligence operations.” Between the late 1950s and the middle of the 1970s, the Dalai Lama was employed by the CIA and was paid $180,000 annually. In old photographs, the Dalai Lama’s serfs can be seen to be extremely impoverished and wearing filthy clothing.
He was the leader of “a state apparatus run by aristocratic, nepotistic monks that collected taxes, jailed and tortured dissenters and engaged in all the usual political intrigues.” In an effort to preserve the status quo, the CIA tried to stop Tibetans from becoming Chinese citizens and enjoying the current, livable standard of living while largely preserving their culture (for example, their language is taught in schools along with Mandarin).
The CIA offshoot National Endowment for Democracy (NED) continues to provide funding and other forms of support to Tibetan and Uighur groups in exile for use in Washington’s anti-Chinese propaganda war and regime change efforts. NED is officially a nongovernmental organization funded by the White House and the U.S. Congress and receives its directives from the U.S. government.
As perhaps the most useful tool to internally destabilize China and to topple a powerful rival, the U.S. began to target the Chinese province of Xinjiang more than Tibet. Over the past few decades, groups have emerged calling for the independence of Xinjiang or attempting to establish the state of East Turkistan on its territory.
These include the East Turkistan Government in Exile and the United States-sponsored World Uyghur Congress. The Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), another Xinjiang-based secessionist group, frequently carried out terrorist attacks between 1997 and 2014 that claimed hundreds of lives in Xinjiang and the rest of China.
It was also no coincidence that a number of anti-China academics began to appear around the same time, assisting in the mobilization of Uyghur diaspora organizations and the dissemination of false information about the Uyghur “genocide” in Xinjiang.
As this video demonstrates, the U.S. media and its Western media allies are currently employing a tried-and-true CIA playbook by disseminating Uyghur horror stories to foster anti-Chinese hostility and support for war, despite the fact that these tales frequently crumble under close examination.
A harsh campaign against U.S.-backed separatists and their supporters, and of course terrorists that Washington removed from the U.S. terror list in 2020, is seen by some as China’s response to the U.S. using China’s minorities to bring about regime change.
Former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson confirmed that Xinjiang is nothing more than a calculated American plot to undermine China from within. He had stated unequivocally that a “reason we’re there [in Afghanistan] is because there’re twenty million Uyghurs [in Xinjiang] … Well, the CIA would want to destabilize China and that would be the best way to do it, to foment unrest and to join with those Uyghurs in pushing the Han Chinese and Beijing from internal places rather than external.”
Uighur jihadists have also been supporting Washington in its campaign for regime change in Syria, which is considered a secular state without its laws based on Islam. The Asia Times noted that “Washington threw its full weight behind the so-called Arab Spring, and the CIA-trained jihadists in Syria to overthrow the Assad regime in Damascus”; and that “thousands of Chinese Uighurs were also fighting in Syria.” Additionally, Washington’s useful Uyghur idiots might do some “good” to China at home: A video of Chinese Uyghur Muslims threatening to return home and “shed blood like rivers” in China was released by the terrorist organization ISIS in 2017 from its bases in Iraq and Syria.
Recently, hundreds of protesters in various cities of China demanded the lifting of Covid-restrictions. The protests in Urumqi, where a fire broke out in a high-rise building, were about legitimate demands. But protests emerged almost simultaneously in Shanghai, near the U.S. consulate, and they were about regime change.
Some of the protest organizers used large Telegram accounts to coordinate their efforts, employing the same tactics as the 2019 protests in Hong Kong that were supported by U.S. intelligence. People were recruited to hold white papers and were paid $200 per head. They served two purposes: to criticize the Chinese government and to exaggerate the scale of the protests. The majority of the new hires were from Taiwan and Hong Kong. Their accents immediately identified them. The mainland Chinese were not convinced.
With the biggest psy-ops in recent times, Falun Gong has accomplished an impressive feat. But for this political-pseudo-religious sect and the CIA-connected regime change operatives who support it, the imprisonment of the Chinese president and a country in turmoil — a disinformation campaign spread by this organization and amplified by Western media such as The Spectator, Newsweek, “MSN.com,” the Daily Telegraph and Newsmax (partially edited since then) — have so far remained unfulfilled Neo-con fantasies. However, as long as the U.S. government keeps spending hundreds of millions of dollars on its information war against China, Falun Gong and other delusional propaganda warriors may still have their best days ahead of them. And there is no doubt that the mainstream Western media, which long ago gave up trying to uphold even the bare minimum of ethical and professional standards of journalism, will be happy to enthusiastically support their campaign.
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