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Now back to the postponement of the elections.
Even The New York Times, known for (at least stylistically) more 'elegant coverage,' produced a hawkish headline on July 31, 2020: "Hong Kong Delays Election, Citing Coronavirus. The Opposition Isn't Buying It."
So, first, the way elections were to be conducted was wrong; and now postponement of them became wicked. Western "analysts" reacted very, very fast.
Nothing new, of course. Suspicion is omnipresent when it comes to news coverage of SAR and Mainland China by Western media outlets. Nothing short of total surrender would be accepted or praised.
It is essential to confront Western propaganda with the facts, again and again. It is a tiring, monotonous process, but there is no other way around it. Otherwise, all rationale will collapse. Therefore, let us continue with our labor:
This essay is written and sent from the Western Hemisphere, part of the world which is most damaged by COVID-19. Elections here are either outrightly postponed, or postponement is at least discussed, considered as an option. Even Donald Trump, 'arch hero' of the Hong Kong rioters, is going back and forth on the issue. Chilean referendum on Constitution changes was postponed, without much debate, due to COVID-19. Elections in Bolivia have been delayed again and again. And there, actually, the elections are crucial, as last year there was a U.S.-backed coup which out seated enormously popular and successful indigenous President Evo Morales. Of course, you would not read much about all this in the West.
Western mass media takes COVID-19 'argument' for postponing elections in the Americas as something fundamentally legitimate. Because this fits the interests of Washington. There, yes, but what is taken as a norm elsewhere, is never acceptable when it happens in China.
Why is it this way, is clear: again, it is not at all about logic or rationale. China has to be wrong, no matter what it does. Even when what it does is in line with the rest of the world. It is Kafkaesque, it is unfair, but it is part of a new normalconstructed by the U.S. leaders like Trump, Rubio, Pompeo, Bolton, and Navarro.
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