My Take | Need to blame someone for something? Just shout ‘China’
- If Western politicians are right, Beijing is behind the student protests in the US, responsible for preventing a British MP from visiting Djibouti and ‘fuelling the largest armed conflict in Europe since WWII’
By now, I am beginning to think Western politicians and leaders may actually have daily and weekly quotas to drum up the “China threat”. As a result, many appear to be finding it difficult to fill them and so have had to resort to highly implausible and increasingly silly claims.
Students from at least 20 universities across the United States are staging peaceful protests – which have led to hundreds of arrests and some accusations of police brutality – against their government’s complicity in Israel’s acts of genocide in Gaza.
Gen Z is awakening to the atrocities Washington commits, or supplies funds and weapons to help its client states to commit, around the world.
But, according to Florida Republican congressman Carlos Gimenez, China is behind the US nationwide protests.
In an interview with Fox Business Network’s Mornings with Maria, he said: “Don’t be surprised if you actually look really deep into who’s funding, that the CCP is involved, the Communist Chinese Party.”
When asked by host Maria Bartiromo about the source(s) of his claim, he replied, “I got some information that, yes, that somehow, through another organisation, the CCP actually funds that organisation who is funding these people.”