Having said that, there are still remnants of such propaganda outlets still existing and pushing out its China bashing agenda, some with axes to grind against China over punishment meted out by China over misdeeds while working in China. The videos of tofu buildings and bridges collapsing figure prominently in most of those videos. I would not be laughing so fast like these people if they just look at the USA itself, now fighting a serious battle regarding high rise buildings sinking into the ground all over - in San Francisco, New York and Miami among others. They are amazing, but more amazing if they collapse. Of course, those have to be covered up or not given too much attention. The attention must always shift towards China with no others to demonize.
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The USA invented slavery, importing Black Africans into the country to work in mines, labor in cotton fields, build highways and railways and help to open up and develop the country. Many Asians were also lured into slavery under the Whites, working in jobs the Whites shunned. Trump's usage of the term 'forced labor' is just the alternate name probably, in my opinion, to avoid using the term 'slave labor' in order not to drag up old stigma attached to its slavey baggage practiced by the USA itself.
Not many people are aware that the abolition of slavery in the USA in 1865 is not as morally significant as the event suggests, as it serves another more sinister motive. During the civil war between the Northen Union States and the Southern Confederate States. there was a shortage of soldiers in the Northern Union States, and the abolition of slavery was to allow the Blacks to be enlisted into the army to fight for them. A very sinister move that nobody took note nor discussed at length, only the talk about how morally great that the abolition of the slavery act of 1865 had given to the Blacks.
Having said that, and if Black slavery had been abolished in 1865, the Blacks should be enjoying the same rights as the Whites. Why was Martin Luther King Jr still fighting for the civil rights for the Blacks in 1929, more than 60 years later? Today, the Blacks are still not given their rights per se, otherwise what was the 'Black Lives Matter' or BLM movement all about? It is so sad that such a movement just died off so quietly.
Today, Trump is using the forced labor mantra to hit countries with new tariffs, including the EU states, leveraging on secondary usage of 'forced labor' inputs in its products, particularly levelled against China for fabricated 'force labor' practices. This comes after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier tariffs as illegal. How about the USA using products also made with 'forced labor' inputs inside products like electronics, magnets in weapons and missiles, quayside cranes and toys for example.
This must be sweet karma particularly for the Europeans that had supported the USA by demonizing China for using the fabricated slave labor mantra in Xinjiang in its cotton industry. Nothing is more satisfying than seeing the Europeans being tarnished with the same dirty brush as the others for their 'forced labor' practices, the same way China was demonized for using fabricated 'slave labor' in Xinjiang. It is even more satisfying to see the Anglo-Saxon Whites turning against each other and at each other's throat. And the mother of all satisfaction is seeing the Europeans also being thrown under the same bus as others by the USA using, I may say, the so-called 'Rules Base Order' or should I say, 'Ruse Based Order'. Karma indeed works in mysterious ways.
Sorry, a correction
Martin Luther King Jr was fighting for civil rights for the Blacks in 1955, about 90 years after the abolition of slavery in 1865.
My apologies - Anon 10.50 am
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