You just can see some level of shock going through r/news for instance. And just very sad comments of actual people losing touch with their actual families, mothers, etc because the US just had to fuck up some shit. It’s sad to see, and I hope it is a new wake up call for many.
And then you have some literal insane Reddit brains saying: yes but it was under Trump! (And months under Biden too for that matter) so they can act as if everything is good now.
Yeah i see that too and it truly misses the point that this is just what the CIA exists to do and always has done; Put American capital and its interests above all else and pursue them at all costs. The correct response to this is to dismantle the CIA as is long overdue anyway but that is obviously out of the question for anyone even close to the power to do that
The article still manages to paint China as the bad guy and gets in a few shots at Russia. Look at this:
Beijing didn’t limit its global influence efforts to propaganda. It announced an ambitious COVID assistance program, which included sending masks, ventilators and its own vaccines – still being tested at the time – to struggling countries. In May 2020, Xi announced that the vaccine China was developing would be made available as a “global public good,” and would ensure “vaccine accessibility and affordability in developing countries.” Sinovac was the primary vaccine available in the Philippines for about a year until U.S.-made vaccines became more widely available there in early 2022.
Xi you sneaky mf. Propaganda of the deed with Chinese characteristics.
Fr, though, the US is run by truly, truly despicable people. The US could’ve chosen not to limit its global influence efforts to propaganda or straightforward coercion but instead it doubled down. Not content with murdering 1 million of it’s own, it killed countless others in the shadows. For anyone wondering whether the US ruling class would rather destroy the planet with nukes than change it’s ways or give up power, there’s your answer.
The US has already done so much harm to my family in the Philippines by propping up Marcos Sr., and now this.
They are monsters.
I am sure other global south comrades can tell but this was not only done in philipines. In mexico there was propaganda spread about the sinovac too, the elites literall flew to the US to vaccinare themselves with pfizer or whatever instead of taking sinovac and much people simply refused to vaccinate because it was chinese.
This was a global campaign.
