US Media Kicking up Terrific Racket About 'China Threat'

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, July 16, 2002

US Media Kicking up Terrific Racket About 'China Threat'

Inconceivably, turning a blind eye to the US transgressing on China's sovereignty and territorial integrity in an attempt to block China's reunification these US media just seize no time to go to every length to paint a sinister picture of China following their theory of 'China threat'.

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US Associated Press (AP) was made known lately by its government that new missile sales by the US government- 200 sophisticated high-priced AIM-120 missiles are imminent to China's Taiwan.

Inconceivably, turning a blind eye to the US transgressing on China's sovereignty and territorial integrity in an attempt to block China's reunification these US media just seize no time to go to every length to paint a sinister picture of China following their theory of 'China threat'.

According to China News Service report July 13, the US defense ministerial report 'Strength of China's Armed Force' must be attributed to fomenting the new 'China threat' racket. The report alleges that Sino-US exchanges may bring trade, science and technology benefits to the US but in the long run China constitutes the 'major challenge' to the US.

China is justified to enhance national defense and same must also be the US Ministry of National Defense with a new annual report put out as 'Jean's Defense Weekly' Asia-Pacific Region chief told that 'I don't think Pentagon's report offers anything extraordinary'.

But it has become a completely different thing on the US media. July 13 saw US most famous 'WorldNetDaily' released its red banner headline coverage: 'China's Object': Sink US Aircraft Carriers. Meanwhile it saw to it that a questionnaire be put out to make a further fuss about 'China threat' in the way 92 percent of the responds online regards China as a threat to the US. 'WorldNetDaily' as 'Washington Post' has all along been known for their 'rightist', 'conservative' and 'anti-China' stand. So for their anti-China stand the two are by no means isolated or just few for they find AP and Reuter, Washington Times, Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, USA Today also in their company having much ado about the theory of 'China threat'.

Things seem to have been treated in an objective and just manner on the part of those anti-China media when you just look at the headlines and the way of their coverage superficially. But by their contents and between the lines of their news coverage you'll find their conjectured 'China 'threat' and their 'direct threats' from China to the US, being conveyed most cunningly by the mouth of others. We must point it out that these reports have been released in the way no ordinary readers would find it easy to see through underlying prejudices and their hidden political leanings as the handiwork of top-notch editorship.

This is as has been aptly put by a senior news expert with a mainstream new medium in the UK: News reports by mainstream media in the US seem to have been fairly treated but things are just not so much as desired. Take for example, you just can't go deep or make an analytic study into their reports on Israeli slaughter in Palestine's Jenin refuge camp and these had made no exception with news coverage of AP, Reuter, New York Times, Los Angels Times and UK's The Independent amongst others.

The Western media used to swing from one extreme to another extreme when going in deals lashing out at China. It would be meant the greatest risk when the slightest pro-China striving should be revealed.

'China threat' has been created in many forms. The various 'threats' rampage in the West such as China closing net bars 'brings threat to democracy and liberty', China buying submarines from Russia 'poses threat to the whole of the world' and China' missile tests 'forms threat to the whole international community'. With these are also China's AIDS 'constitute threat to the whole humankind' and an ancient fish species from China has even formed threat to the US. On Yahoo, access to 'China threat', in a few seconds, one will find hundreds of news items on the theory of 'China threat' and a whelming majority of these have been dished up during a recent time and by those of mainstream media in the US.

By People's Daily Online

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