Amerika’s strategy when dealing with extremists is to kill them until there are none left.
That’s their strategy for everything. Just bomb the problem until it goes away.
They are doing it in the Middle East, they are doing it in the Philippines even. They tried it in Vietnam, they tried it in Korea.
This is generally how any imperialist power deals with their problem. Then they wonder why they keep getting attacked by terrorists.
China meanwhile is investing money into teaching marginalised people, to help them integrate, support themselves, get out of this rut they found themselves stuck in. Show them another life is possible.
I eagerly await the day the empire will fall for good.
Since joining a party, I think more and more that it doesnt really matter what people think about faraway countries like China. Because at the end of the day, whether you “support” China or not doesnt make any real difference. Its much more important that you organize with other people in your neighborhood and your city. And as long as you have local comrades who are willing to put in the work, it doesnt really matter whether you disagree on on topics like China.
We’ve never talked about China in my party because… it has no bearing on our work. There’s no official line but probably most comrades are supportive. Individually I will try to promote China when talking to people but there’s no party line on them; we have our own revolution to build.
I think it’s good to promote the PRC because you can give people proposals. You can go, “Look here at this good thing they’re doing! Let’s do it in our country too.” If you let the hate fester instead people will just go, “Ew, China’s doing it? Let’s not do this good thing then because it is evil by association.”
I agree that “support” doesn’t really matter. However, the propaganda still has to be challenged anyway since it will have real impact on people. Asians in the US for example. Even the whole propaganda about PRC’s authoritarianism has in a way ended up biting the imperial core in the ass. Lockdowns were made fun of as draconian things that the evil, controlling commies in the PRC do. The US believed that their supposed freedom could win the day for them and it failed spectacularly. You and I know the result: 400k deaths.
If your party in the US decides that it is a priority, then by all means. But here it just doesnt come up in the media that much, and we have way more important work to do.
Yeah, then in your case it doesn’t really matter. I was talking more in a general, if-it-comes-up sense. I mean I don’t live in the US and I too don’t have to deal with that problem in my daily life. I still speak up when people in my immediate circle says some shit on some random day. I’m not saying make it a party program or anything.