>That Republicans are taking a hawkish posture toward China is not surprising to Brown, but he’s plainly uneasy that so many in his own party are doing the same.
>“There’s not much dissent, the chorus on China is overwhelming,” he says.
The problem is that the mass media has been overwhelmingly anti-China. Politicians have no choice but to just go along with the mindlessly "China bad" narrative. Any politician who isn't firmly on the side of "China bad" will be labeled as pro-CCP, pro-communism, etc.
This is true at a much lower level too. For example, even on HN, where people generally are more knowledgeable and often trained in the sciences and history, if you're not anti-China, you might easily get called out as a CCP propagandist. There is no dialogue that can be had. People have made up their mind through endless mass media anti-China propaganda.
Some raw emotions take time to burn off. Next decade will be critical. If things (other than the climate) don't get hot it will get harder to sustain the bogeyman, like the Chinese economic collapse stories that pop up periodically but with less and less conviction. If things do get hot, some will get to chest thump to say they were right all along (without ever reflecting on if they could have done something to prevent it, c'est la vie).
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 40.3 ms ] thread>“There’s not much dissent, the chorus on China is overwhelming,” he says.
The problem is that the mass media has been overwhelmingly anti-China. Politicians have no choice but to just go along with the mindlessly "China bad" narrative. Any politician who isn't firmly on the side of "China bad" will be labeled as pro-CCP, pro-communism, etc.
This is true at a much lower level too. For example, even on HN, where people generally are more knowledgeable and often trained in the sciences and history, if you're not anti-China, you might easily get called out as a CCP propagandist. There is no dialogue that can be had. People have made up their mind through endless mass media anti-China propaganda.