[pkdpic]

In all seriousness after getting addicted to reading Liu Cixin (who the PRC seems to fully support) Ive found myself occasionally wondering how much of what I think about China and it's oppressive surveillance state could possibly be ambient US propaganda or anti propaganda.

But then again the only friend I have that speaks Chinese and has visited China for work multiple times backs most of it up.

More of a thought experiment but getting hooked by clickable title here stirred it up again in my head.

[natded]

Most of the online discussion centered around China is just US domestic political projection using an imaginary China as a mirror, or as a counterfactual which doesn't exist, and then there's the obvious propaganda too.