The Hostile Forces of Beijing
Regularly such &#x27;disappearances&#x27; of personas in targeted countries are posted in the Western media. Then those people show up a few months later, having being doing their own thing. They posted that some guy had disappeared in an Xinjiang prison. The guy was then discovered in his own home, giving an interview to a local TV, unaware of his own disappearance. Some other woman was told to have been &#x27;disappeared&#x27;. A few weeks later she was interviewed while manning the cash register in her own small cellphone shop, being unaware that she has disappeared. When it comes to North Korean dignitaries, its a regular thing - frequently major US outlets post that some NK dignitary has been &#x27;vanished&#x27;. Two months later the guy shows up somewhere else, busy with something else. Because the public seems to have the memory span of a fish, nobody notices.<p>This kind of smearing has been used against many countries before. From all the small countries that were attacked by the US in the last decades to the actual superpowers that the US targeted.<p>It took only SIX months for the mainstream US press to turn the country I grew up in from being a &#x27;model democracy in the region&#x27; to &#x27;authoritarian state&#x27; after that country refused to play along with the US foreign policy in the region. Now that its pushing war in Taiwan, its no surprise such smears seem to be increasing. Nothing surprising.<p>What&#x27;s suprising, however, is how easily the supposedly educated Western public buys into lies. Its only 20 years after the Iraqi WMDs lie. The people were supposed to have learned something from that. However look at the comments in these threads, people raging about this supposed event far worse than how people raged against Iraq during the war propaganda back in 2003. All of this without any consideration for CIA rendition flights, Assange etc of course. Those things are &#x27;bad but dont talk about them&#x27;. Such smears are &#x27;rage all about it with all your might&#x27;.<p>From what the Brexit process has taught, reviling, smearing others and uniting over this hatred of an external enemy seems to be a cultural paradigm in various countries - foremost the Angloamerican ones. Everyone else is most evil. They themselves are, well, &#x27;okay with some problems&#x27;. Even if the problems are atrocious violations of most basic human rights, from killing people if they cant pay for healthcare to jailing whistleblowers to murdering people for their oil.<p>20 years after Iraq. The same thing. Shame. What&#x27;s worse, against all objective, repeated reality repeating itself over and over and over and over again, people still reject such criticism as evidenced by the downvotes. If the &#x27;educated and intelligent&#x27; segment in the West is like this, imagine the non-educated segments...