Leaked Memo - War with China by 2025

[GDS_Starfury]

interesting source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times

the bit you posted has a lot of 1981 cold war flavor to it.

[al_infierno]

The Epoch Times opposes the Chinese Communist Party,

Well, you know what they say about broken clocks!

[Sir Slash]

Oh come on Star. Everybody knows by now you can manipulate Wikipedia to say anything you want it to. That's a total distortion of what the circulation is and stands for. With all your many sources and videos you pick the most unflattering of all to label it as. Just because you don't like what it says doesn't mean it's wrong and so you have to try to shit all over it. Try a little open-mindedness.

[GDS_Starfury]

ok

[JasonPratt]

The Falun Gong cult connection is certainly correct. I've been watching them for several years, and they can be very shifty about those connections, although they promote traditional culture of many kinds including western civ. (Basically, whatever communist and other radical socialist regimes have tried to destroy, they promote.)

"Far-right" is a buzzword meant to evoke Nazism. But it's true that they have promoted Trump, including after the election, and have produced docs and given airtime to criticism over the 2020 (and recent 2022) election, as well as balancing out coverage of the Jan6 Capitol riot. They were also the first news agency to be seriously critical of the virus narrative, and things they were censored about in the past on that topic have turned out to be correct, along with more things now being openly discussed across various media types which used to be politically banned from discussion.

Their political coverage is certainly motivated by ongoing persecution by the Chinese Communist Party, and their political slant is definitely highly anti-communist; they have ex-pats from Russia working with them, too. They have not published "pro-Kremlin" content in any form that I've seen. (Maybe that's different in Germany; they tend to adjust content for their audiences.) Despite the claim made in the article, I do see them correct errors promptly (although like many outlets, the note reporting content they've corrected in the article appears at the end of the article.) I'm very suspicious of their Falun Gong connections, so I'm always on the watch for slants along that line; such as, in the past weeks, hosting and promoting the cult leader's "Origin of Humanity" declaration.

I tend to regard them as the old Christian-Science Monitor newspaper: they do good reporting, with sources cited, despite their cult connections. When citing them in the past (including here), I've made a point of bringing up potentially (or even actually) slanted coverage as an alert to watch for, when I thought their material warranted the caution. In this case, they're just consolidating information from other sources, and the report looked neutral enough to me, so I didn't bother.

If the article has a lot of 1981 Cold War flavor to it, so do our own analyses of the China Sea / Taiwan situation in other threads, since much of what's in the article mirrors things we've said ourselves along the way.

[JasonPratt]

The Epoch Times opposes the Chinese Communist Party,

Well, you know what they say about broken clocks!

The CCP tends to smash clocks so it's always time to oppose them? 

Still, it's fair to be on the watch for unfair bias against the CCP, too.