The Americans have been the ruling power of the world and the sole super power for 20 years. The Brits and the West were ruling the world for centuries. There was no talk of balancing their influence and their abuse of power in the world. The only balancing was between the white men fighting each other for greater influence and control of more colonies.
During the 30 years of abusive and destructive rule by the American Empire as the only super power, invading countries, massacring innocent people, turning countries in the Middle East into their protectorates or colonies, the western narrative was silence about nudging the oppressed countries of the world to support or align with another great power to counter or balance the American influence. It was the right thing for the Americans to rule, it was the best thing for the white supremacy countries. The coloured countries should be ruled by the white men, by the Americans. No need to balance or counter the evil American Empire.
Now China is rising, has risen, to be the second super power, but still not as powerful as the Americans. Shouldn't the rest of the world, at least the Global South, be happy and cheering that there is China to counter balance the aggressive and rogue American Empire? Instead, the narratives coming out from the white men's capitals and the western media is to counter China's peaceful rise. Why counter a rising power that is still much weaker than the Americans and not the American menace? And the cronies' media unthinkingly just repeat the chorus.
This is how the American and western media have been programming the minds of Asians and Africans and the rest of the world, to see China as a threat, not the American terrorists that are involved in all the wars, invasion and meddling of countries internal affairs, while China's interests are basically economic growth and trade, and not in wars.
Reading the media of the Global South, especially Asian and SE Asian media, one cannot miss how freely this concept of countering China, balancing China, slips loosely from the mouth of western educated elites, journalists and reporters, as second nature. They did not know that eating too much hamburgers would make their minds sick and easily programmed by the western media and narratives. To them countering China, balancing China is the right thing to do. There is no need to counter or balance the influence and rogue behaviours of the American terrorists because the Americans did not tell them to do so. Many subconsciously still regard the Americans as the good guy, wanting the Americans, the international gangsters and number one terrorist state, to be the policemen of the world.
This is especially true in the minds of the Arab and Muslim states despite the Americans and the Israelis committing genocide against their Arab and Muslim brothers everyday...while the Americans/West regard the Arab and Muslim states as their perpetual enemy number one for centuries because of their religion. The fact that they are happily buying American weapons, and knowing that they are not getting the same quality as what the Americans and the Jews have of the same weapons, speaks a lot about their grey matter. They did not even bother about the kill switch embedded in the aircraft or ship to malfunction or self destruct.
Very likely, their minds have also been programmed to think the Palestinians are subhumans, below them, and it is ok to massacre them. No need to be bothered, never mind. The Americans and the Israelis are doing the right thing to genocide the Palestinians, no need to be wary of them, no need to counter or balance against the world's number one terrorist state, the American Empire. Did China invade Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan or any country in the world?
Stupidity has no cure. Oops, they did not know that their minds have been programmed to love the American terrorists and to fear the peaceful rise of China. It is so easy to programme minds that cannot think critically and analyse, just read and absorb everything at face value, even lies and disinformation.
The American programming has been very successful on the English educated and bananas. They cannot see what the Americans are doing with all the wars and massacres and sanctions.
PS. This programming of the innocent and the young gets worse when the media of American cronies continue to do the work for the Americans. It is the same as the unthinking or ignorant asking silly questions like why the Americans hate Chinese.
The Americans have been living on a diet of hating China and Chinese for centuries, with hate narratives spreading in their homes, schools, playgrounds, societies, on their literature, in their media, in Hollywood, from birth to death. How are they not going to act and behave differently towards the Chinese? All the nitwits should stop asking this silly question, and equally dimwits should stop trying to explain this away by not wanting to know the real reason why the Americans hate Chinese. Some dimwits even try to explain and justify, with silly excuses, for the Americans' racist, savage and primitive aggressive behaviour against the Chinese.
They have been programmed for centuries, in everyday of their existence, to hate Chinese, to bash Chinese, to demonise Chinese, to believe that the Chinese are evil people with no talents, inscrutables, faceless and characterless, and with no dignity or pride. The Americans are still in shock, refusing to acknowledge their stereotyping of the Chinese people is a lie they created for themselves when the Chinese are now showing exceptional talent in all fields of endeavour, beating the Americans hands down.
