Speaking of the West's old-fashioned bullets against China, it always feels like chewing old newspapers, the taste is bitter but there is always someone who loves to turn out.
China threat theory this thing, since the last century has not broken roots, now wearing a new armor, continues to shake in the global media. core purpose? simple and rough, is to shape China into a big counterpart, so that the people of their own in the event of a fight, holding a gun in the hand but do not need to curb the account of conscience.
This routine sounds familiar, because the West has done many similar things in history, from the Yellow Peril theory to the anti-Soviet propaganda of the Nazis, all of which are paving the way for moral immunity step by step. At present, the theory of the origin of the epidemic and the debt trap of the Belt and Road Initiative are all the bricks and tiles of this terrible consensus.
Old dreams, new bottles of old wine.
This ghost thing, at least, dates back to the middle of the 19th century, when the Western powers had just tasted the sweetheads of the opium war, and began to sort out the Chinese as a potential evil.
In 1882, the United States first jumped out and passed the Ex-China Act, for a decade not to allow Chinese laborers to enter the country, which was behind the fear of Chinese workers to work hard and affordably, to squeeze local employment.
This argument is essentially a colonialism slogan, used to justify the plunder of China and Asia. Sun Yat-sen then directed to harm, saying that this thing corrupted the image of the Chinese people, creating trouble.
In the blink of an eye, in the 20th century, during the Korean War, the West changed into the military threat theory, and in the 1990s, it was changed into the clash of civilizations theory. What about now? Thucydides trap and China threat theory are all variants of the yellow peril.
The root has not changed, but they are still afraid of China's rise and robbing them as the global leader. The inertia of western centralism makes them always feel that China's development is a zero-sum game, and if you are strong, I will be weak.
For example, just a few years after the Belt and Road Initiative was put forward, the West called for China to infiltrate developing countries, and the word debt trap became standard since the Indian media speculated on Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka in 2017.
To be honest, this propaganda strategy is to lay down negative labels through the media and the think tank, and slowly implant the stereotype in the minds of the people.
The West did so, not because China really had a conspiracy, but because of its own hegemonic anxiety.China's economic influence expanded, African highway railways were built, electric schools were more, and their red cake was separated, and began to defile.
Over the past 20 years, China has helped Africa to build 1,3 thousand kilometers of railways, more than 80 large power facilities, more than 130 medical stations, more than 170 schools, these realistic achievements, they do not see, they are only provoking. The Western loans, more flow to the non-production field, make Africa more and more borrowed, forming a vicious cycle.
The deepest meaning of the Yellow Disaster theory is that the sense of racial superiority is striking. At the end of the 19th century, it emphasized that white people are superior and yellow people are miserable. Now in exchange for economic military threats, but in the bones is still the fear of panic being replaced.
Sun Laibin and others have analyzed it, which reflects the special psychology of the West's fear of China's rise. Every time the blue book of China's diplomacy comes out, Japan jumps and says that China's threat is exaggerated, and China responds that this is interference in internal affairs. This kind of repeated hype is logically aimed at building internal consensus and diverting domestic contradictions. Unemployment and inflation are a lot of things, and it will be easy to blame China.
The origin of the epidemic's pot game, the old trick of shifting the line of sight.
Once the new coronavirus broke out, the United States was eager, unable to control itself, infecting death world first, to find the target transfer fire power.In January 2020, the virus traceability was a scientific matter, but they launched the laboratory leakage theory, holding a hat that Wuhan virus was leaked.
This is not science, it is a political operation. The State Department statement on January 30 is unknown, and the White House briefing room began to render China’s hiding. In May 2021, Biden ordered an investigation, and the Ministry of Energy and the FBI followed, saying it was likely that the lab would happen, but the White House itself said there was no conclusion.
What is the purpose of this narrative? Transfer domestic conflicts. In the years when the epidemic was severe, the U.S. economy collapsed, and all walks of life complained. The government had to be scolded if it admitted its incompetence. Throw the pot on China, and the public's anger will be exposed to the outside world.
Media follow-up, social platform algorithms push video, commentary areas are all laboratory conspiracy. Like Hester’s Yellow Disaster propaganda, now the media organizes a hate movement to promote xenophobia, paving the way for potential conflict. American experts are threatened, forcing them to abandon their natural origins and turn to support the leakage theory.
What is the truth?Wuhan virus is a Chinese-French cooperative P4 laboratory, has no ability to design to make new coronavirus. In 2021, the WHO expert group investigated, concluding that the natural origin is very likely, the laboratory is extremely impossible. But the West denies, hype conspiracy theory, defamation China cover up the truth.
This logic is absurd. The spread of the virus doesn't obey people's commands. Scientific evidence is there, but they are politicized to trace the source. Sachs and the others were exaggerated by China and Russia, saying that the origin of American laboratories was actually a call for investigation.
The purpose is obvious, to maintain the position of the world's leader, especially in epidemic control, the whole West is stretching the crotch, the United States takes the lead, and other countries follow suit. In 2023, the US media also said that this lie was to justify war.
The virus weakened and the narrative went bankrupt, but they didn't stop for a moment and immediately moved to other battlefields. Such propaganda is logically bombing brainwashing, strengthening China's evil image.
The smoke bomb of the debt trap cannot stop the effectiveness of cooperation
Since the belt and road initiative proposed it in 2013, the West has changed its color, calling for China to set traps in developing countries and control assets if loans can't be repaid. This narrative started in the Indian media in 2017, talking about Sri Lankan ports and saying that China exchanged a 99-year lease for debt.
U.S. national security adviser Bolton also followed the wind, calling it a debt trap diplomacy. What is the purpose? scandalize China's strategy, make cracks, let developing countries hesitate to invest in China. The cake is so big, Chinese enterprises participate in infrastructure construction, the West doesn't share the piece, and begins to confuse the audio.
Two Sri Lankan scholars, in a paper in 2022, detailed the data, said that the debt trap was prepared by the West, and that the Hambantota port was China’s help to ease Sri Lanka’s debt, not a trap. China’s loan conditions are not strict, and the proportion of aided foreign debt is small, only 12%.
Ma Kaishuo, former president of the UN Security Council, said that this argument insulted the IQ of developing countries. Foreign scholars also criticize absurdity, with the aim of undermining cooperation. Swedish scholars say that there are three simple steps to debunk: looking at data, comparing conditions and checking motivation.
China's investment is mostly used in production projects, roads, railways, electric power and medical schools, which drive local development. Mombasa-Nairobi Railway opened to traffic to increase transportation capacity; Ethiopia's Yaji Railway connects inland ports. In October 2023, the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative, it has proved to be common prosperity, not a trap. Western loans, on the contrary, make African governments borrow more and more poorer. American scholars' investigation also proves that the debt trap is a lie.
The meaning of this smoke bomb is to curb China's influence. In September 2024, Hong Kong 01 analyzed that the Belt and Road in Africa is a modern path, not a trap. Western hypocrisy, logic is zero and thinking, excluding win-win.
The deep abacus of the propaganda machine, the invisible foreshadowing of war exemption
The western narrative, in the end, is for the service of war. continuously scandalizing China, reducing the sense of guilt of the people, once the conflict, the destruction of the massacre should be justified. Nazi German anti-Soviet propaganda is the prequel, rendering the Soviet Union into the evil regime controlled by the Jews, the Germans on the battlefield to kill civilians without psychological pressure.
At the time of Hitler, the Goebbels bombarded exports, the film newspapers covered the school, casting consensus. Now the West is similar to China, the epidemic increases the debt layer, and in 2025 the Loy Institute reports that 75 countries are facing China’s debt tide.
This calculation is loud, the deeper the anxiety, the stronger the propaganda. Trump is populist, anti-globalization, and increases the conservation. China's response is to increase power, break down lies. In August 2023, China's network analyzes hegemony anxiety. The speech trap is visible, in power, China's influence is steadily rising, and African projects are effective.
After all, this consensus is terrible in its silence. The West does not care about the truth, and wants to change the image of China. We have to be vigilant, long-term play, and respond with development. The power is strong, and they cannot move their hands.