By Jennifer Lin
LIE: China is a military threat to the U.S.
FACT: The U.S. military is the threat. The U.S. military has 800 foreign bases; China has one. 400 U.S. bases—some armed with nukes—encircle China. China doesn’t have a single military base in our hemisphere. Though the U.S. population is only a third the size of China’s, the $1.2 trillion U.S. war budget is three times that of China. China has not fought a war in over 40 years and urges peace while the U.S. wages endless wars around the world.
LIE: China is taking our jobs.
FACT: China is made up of people just like us. They work to go to school, feed themselves and raise families. They are not the enemy. U.S. residents lose jobs when US corporations are free to run all over the earth to find the cheapest labor they can. Congress allows this and hands out huge subsidies to corporate owners who put their profits in tax-free offshore banks. Trump’s tax cuts for millionaires did not create jobs, only more profits for the rich.
LIE: China is cheating on trade.
FACT: The U.S. government subsidizes U.S. corporations through tax exemptions, deductions, and grants. Trillions of dollars in tax money are handed over to banks and huge corporations. Many companies like the war profiteering General Electric pay no taxes at all. The U.S. is subsidizing drug companies to make vaccines, but they turn around and charge us high prices so they can make a profit. The U.S. forces other countries to trade in U.S. dollars, and has trade agreements that hurt all workers but make companies rich. China’s “crime” is that they refuse to allow foreign companies to take over their state-owned enterprises, and resist demands to end state support for education, health care and pensions. Workers: Don’t believe U.S. billionaires’ liesTh Say ‘No!’ to racist war on ChinaTh
LIE: The coronavirus pandemic is China’s fault.
FACT: The origins of COVID-19 remain unknown. Wuhan was the first place to report the virus, but this doesn’t mean it’s where the virus originated. Within two weeks of the first reported case, China notified the CDC and the world and shared the virus’ genetic sequence with the World Health Organization. Vaccine research began immediately. Trump refused to admit it was even a problem.
This racist blame and refusal to protect residents has caused surging deaths in the U.S. China has sent medical assistance to over 150 countries and is developing a vaccine that will be distributed globally for free. The U.S. is letting hospitals overflow with
LIE: China is persecuting Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.
FACT: The U.S. funds and trains a far-right movement that recruits Chinese Uyghurs to join Al Qaeda and ISIS. China has brought education, poverty alleviation, and job training to Xinjiang. Accusations about concentration camps, genocide, torture, and cultural erasure come only from the U.S. and its allies, while nearly all the world’s Muslim-majority countries have praised China’s policies.
The U.S. government has bombed and persecuted Muslims for decades, killing millions in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and more. The U.S. still tortures Muslims imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay and anti-Muslim hate crimes remain all too common.