The Red Scare is back. This new era of McCarthyism depends on loose and selective interpretation and enforcement of existing legal measures with some racial profiling and guilt-by-association mixed in.
People are being accused of being foreign agents based on their political views. Chinese nationals have been chased out of academia. And wild and easily disproved stories about China, often sourced to the State Department or think tanks connected to the U.S. government, proliferate in the capitalist press, priming the US public for a never-ending expansion of the U.S. war machine.
To discuss the new Red Scare and why it’s so dangerous, Rania Khalek was joined by Amanda Yee, a writer and organizer based in Brooklyn, host of the podcast Radio Free Amanda, and author of the piece “Red Scare reloaded: Chinese “foreign agents” and a new era of McCarthyism”, published at Liberation News.
Biden spent a $300 million yearly budget to smear China. 敗登每年花了 3 億美元的預算用來抹黑中國.
The result is that 82% of Americans in the United States have a negative view of China. So it is not surprising that 58% of Chinese Americans have a negative view of China. This only proves that Biden’s $300 million brainwashing effort is clearly effective.
US to offer millions in new funds to take on China – The US Senate also proposed an appropriation of 300 million US dollars for each of the fiscal years 2022 through 2026 to “counter the malign influence” of the CPC and designated the US Department of State and Agency for International Development to train journalists on investigative techniques necessary to ensure public accountability related to the Belt and Road Initiative, including “supporting civil society and independent media”. https://amp.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3131467/us-offer-millions-new-funds-take-china
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