How China extended its suppression into an American city was the title of a new Washington Post article.
The Post claims that anti-China organizations who turned out to protest Xi’s visit were violently attacked at the 2023 APEC summit in San Francisco by Chinese American community leaders and leaders who allegedly met under the leadership of the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) during the visit.  ,
This, the Post states, was all part of a Chinese political gloomy tale of international repression, directing those within” diaspora groups” to thwart rebel anti-China voices elsewhere.  , But the exact opposite is true.
In reality, it is the billionaire-owned Washington Post that is quashing the free speech of regular Americans in support of the Washington leadership’s dangerous new Cold War plan.  ,
What truly happened ,  ,  ,
Let’s look at what actually happened at the APEC mountain, the funding resources for anti-China organizations like the Hong Kong Democracy Council and Individuals for a Free Tibet, and the Post’s exceptional use of facial recognition technology to identify and objective leaders in the Chinese American society.
As an observer of a conflict between the anti-China parties and the Xi welcomers, I witnessed the exact reverse of what the Washington Post claims. The anti-China protest were the most well-trained and organized organization I have always witnessed.
All these photos and videos that they produced? We did everything to them, but they charged into our traces, threatened us and created conflict. Finally, at the height of the conflict, they began filming on their smartphones and telling fabricated accounts of our attacks. They edited the picture to make it appear as though they were recording it on camera.  ,
When mainstream media reframes events to support a predetermined anti-China narrative, you see an extremely advanced information operation exclusively designed to provoke also peaceful welcomers.  ,  ,
In other words, this was a very sophisticated and organized activity that adhered to a formula used by the US creation. In an effort to achieve a significant propaganda victory, it skillfully combined resources, systems, and complex training of a relatively modest team of provocateurs.  ,  ,
There were a number of different verbal exchanges between the anti-China activists and the Xi welcomers. Here, we’ll study two examples tightly.
The aircraft bridge incident ,
One incident occurred at a gate close to the road where Xi was scheduled to take his return to China from the aircraft. Xi welcomers were waving Chinese banners and were standing on the gate wall facing the path.  ,
Eventually, the anti-China activists brought their unique Hong Kong and Tibetan banners onto the bridge. Then, they suddenly turned and , charged , into the Xi welcomers from behind, trying to push the welcomers apart and capture their location on the bridge wall.  ,  ,
Here’s a picture of that fee taken at that moment:  ,
You can see how the Xi welcomers were completely caught off guard as the anti-China demonstrators gathered behind them and swarmed into their rates.  ,
A fresh Tibetan rebel vehemently pushed her manner through our lines. The Tibetan woman aggressively pushed our people aside, all the time yelling”, Do n’t touch me, do n’t touch me! ” as she was actually pushing her way through us.  ,
They were extremely skilled at playing the victim while really being the aggressors, especially when making videotapes. It looked evidently rehearsed.  ,
The young Tibetan activist girl placed herself in a position of encirclement, pushing past all of us, and coming to the front of the bridge wall, away from her own citizens. This was great for their video.
She kept yelling”, Do n’t touch me! ” the whole day pretending to be the target,  , i. electronic. that of a young girl fenced in by her political critics, a tremendous advertising video for their area.  ,  ,
The anti-China protesters started recording on their phones while dictating a clearly fraudulent, prepared script that claimed the Xi welcomers started the conflict, even though the welcomers were actually caught off guard and ambushed from behind, waiting until the two sides were locked together facing each other.
The conflict lasted until the police arrived, perhaps an hour later, and finally divided the two parties.  ,
Fake” Yellow Emperor”
Another incident was recorded by the anti-China protesters themselves and posted on Radio Free Asia:
If you look , closely, you first see a Xi welcomer ( wearing a red scarf ) down on the ground with another man – an anti-China protester – on top of him, while other Xi welcomers ( wearing red items ) try to pull him off. Then a larger man in a yellow Chinese emperor costume , charges in , and punches a smaller Xi welcomer.  ,  ,
This is followed by anti-China protesters trying to , forcibly , seize the Chinese flags away from some Xi welcomers, followed by the larger man in a yellow costume again charging in.
The anti-China protesters keep moving in on them, much like the situation on the bridge to the airport road, and the Xi welcomers wearing red items and holding Chinese flags are pushed up against a railing behind them.
Hong Kong terror comes to America ,
The anti-China protesters ‘ 2023 APEC summit’s tactics were far more sophisticated than those that are typically employed by either the left or the right in the United States.  ,
These tactics, however, are in line with those employed in the 2019 Hong Kong riots, which involved violent rioters attacking anyone who disagrees with them for ten months.  ,  ,
The Hong Kong Democracy Council, one of the organizations that supported the 2019 rioters in Hong Kong, was one of the groups that spearheaded the Xi welcomers ‘ attacks on the US, which has been accused of having ties to the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ).
The anti-China protesters merely introduced those strategies to the US. The South China Morning Post documented the riots in their nine-minute video summary”, A year of anti-government protests in Hong Kong”:  ,
The tactics used in this demo were basically a , version of what occurred in Hong Kong in 2019, only without the thousands of , rocks, umbrellas and firebombs ( Molotov cocktails ) that they used in Hong Kong. But the lies, choreographed and taped provocations,  , and the aggressors faking being the victims are the same game.
The mainstream media here, like the Western media in Hong Kong, was a weaponized accessory to this violence: completely biased, framing the rioters as peaceful protesters, ignoring evidence to the contrary, and acting as a propaganda multiplier for their violence.  ,  ,
Nury Vittachi ‘s , book,  ” ,The Other Side of the Story: A Secret War in Hong Kong,”  , documents these tactics in great detail:  ,
Who were the Xi welcomers? They were senior citizens of the Chinese American community, many of whom had no history of violence or aggression, who arrived to welcome the president of China meeting with the president of the United States and who hoped for peace between their new and old nations.  ,  ,
The anti-China protesters were mostly young people. Would a group of many senior citizens attack a group of teenagers? It does n’t make sense.  ,
This is extreme hypocrisy on the part of the Washington Post, not to mention journalistic malpractice. It is using its support for transnational rioters from Hong Kong and Tibet to silence Chinese Americans who are exercising their free speech exactly what it was accusing these innocent seniors of doing. It did so using unethical, police state-like methods, including the use of facial recognition technology.  ,
Chinese Americans who came out have stated that the spotlight placed on them by the Washington Post article has made them anxious to speak freely. This kind of media lynching not only silences Chinese Americans, but also makes them feel like they’re on their backs.  ,
Due to anti-China propaganda, Chinese and Asian people have already experienced terrible physical attacks. This will make things worse, putting all Asian Americans in real danger, not just for Chinese Americans.  ,
Repressive methods, repressive goals ,
How the Washington Post created the report is one of the most significant and astounding aspects of this story.  ,  ,
The Washington Post deployed facial recognition technology , to surveil, identify – and slander – Chinese American community members exercising their free speech. The use of facial recognition technology is a flawed, imperfect biometric that courts have largely outlawed. Without science, it is what experts refer to as a forensic.
According to a 2019 article from The Washington Post, facial recognition is unreliable because it can contain bias and errors. White men are more likely than men from other races to be misidentified 100 times more often than men from China and Africa.  ,
In fact, many countries, states and cities, including San Francisco, have banned the use of facial recognition technology by their government departments. In the EU, it is completely prohibited.  ,
In particular, it was prohibited in San Francisco to stop the abuse the Washington Post article described as intended to stop organized crime from utilizing it to identify and target people at large gatherings who are legitimately exercising their constitutional rights.  ,
The US mainstream media’s support of quasi-police state actions in the name of a one-sided anti-China agenda is chilling. One of the anti-China demonstrators was the only one who was detained on the scene by the San Francisco police and charged with numerous counts of serious felonies for beating and seriously injuring a member of the Chinese American community, according to The Post.  ,
New McCarthy era
This is all a part of a new McCarthy era in America that bans all forms of dissent and silences free speech. Just as Senator , Joseph McCarthy , persecuted dissident Americans during Cold War 1, the establishment is now doing the same in today’s new Cold War 2.  ,  ,
Nancy Pelosi, a member of Congress, recently urged the FBI to look into Code Pink as Chinese agents in protest of the genocide in Gaza. Three members of a Black Socialist group, the Uhuru 3, were charged with being Russian agents and put on trial in September 2024 for allegedly opposing the Ukrainian War.
Young university students who are protesting the Gaza war are being detained and prohibited from going back to school. And Chinese American scientists were arrested under Trump’s” China Initiative,” which may be reinitiated soon.  ,
These are dangerous, repressive times to be an American. The crackdown has the makings of an all-out war against free speech and dissent, sparing no individual, group or media platform that puts forth a perspective different from Washington’s official line.  ,  ,
This totalitarian approach, silencing opposition groups to manufacture consent, history shows is often a precursor to war or harbinger of fascism, or both.  ,
To combat this, we should band together and work together to oppose this with all of our efforts. And we should call out corrupt media that seeks to oppress and erode our rights. If we do not stand together, we will all be picked off individually.  ,  ,
Former Veterans For Peace national vice president Michael Wong currently sits on its national board. He co-chairs the China Working Group for Veterans For Peace and is one of Pivot To Peace’s co-founders.
He has been published in the anthologies”, Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, “edited by Maxine Hong Kingston”, A Matter of Conscience,” by William Short and Willa Seidenberg, and in” Waging Peace in Vietnam, “edited by Ron Carver, David Cortright, and Barbara Doherty.
He is also featured in the documentary film”, Sir! No Sir! is a retired social worker with a Master of Social Work degree, and she is” about the GI anti-war movement from the Vietnam era.”  ,