I read this ‘article’. There are zero references towards the so called ‘China Bashing’. If it is so rampant, how hard can it be to just link to a few mainstream offenders? It alludes towards a deliberate bashing, once again without any links or merit. I am fully aware that news is hardly unbiased but come on, this is ridiculous.
like, just off the top of my head there’s that whole “spy balloon” thing.
Give me a source that shows the blatant and deliberate anti China rhetoric about the ‘spy balloon’.
U.S. president Biden … however stated that it was “not a major breach”, and that he also believed that the Chinese leadership wasn’t even aware of the balloon. … On September 17, 2023, in an interview with CBS news, General Mark Milley, the retiring 20th US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated “I would say it was a spy balloon that we know with high degree of certainty got no intelligence, and didn’t transmit any intelligence back to China." Technical experts had also found that the balloon’s sensors had never been activated while it was travelling over the Continental United States. The general also touched on a leading theory that the reason that it was flying over the United States, was probably because it was blown off-track, where the balloon had been heading towards Hawaii however winds at 60,000 feet simply came into the equation. Miley said, “those winds are very high… the particular motor on that aircraft can’t go against those winds at that altitude.” c
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_balloon_incident
TLDR: Unbeknownst to China’s leadership, one of their balloons blew off-track (hardly a rare occurence). It didn’t collect or transmit any intelligence.
But if you watched the media coverage of that incident, you’d likely come to a different conclusion. For example:
Chinese spy balloon gathered intelligence from sensitive U.S. military sites, despite U.S. efforts to block it
Have you been following media recently or have you been living under a rock?
That’s not a defense. Opinion pieces can be fine, but if you’re claiming that something is off the charts you should probably have some charts (or any points of data) to prove the claim.
Then… Disprove it? If there’s such distinct evidence that counters the article, might as well use it in your argument lol
I have been following media intensively. I am not saying that news about China is unbiased in the western media. I am calling out the lack of any sources in this weak ‘article’
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As far as news outlets go, The Diplomat is rather well-regarded
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As an opinion piece, sources are usually implicit (since opinion pieces use the reader’s own knowledge of current events as the context)
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The article points to this article for more context: https://hbr.org/2021/05/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-china
