By María Fernanda Barreto
That statement was not a premonition but the product of a very accurate analysis by the Liberator of Anglo-Saxon expansionism and white supremacism, which were already being manifested in U.S. policy at the beginning of the 19th century.
The young power, paradoxically formed by migrants from various countries, grew up marked by deep racism and the idea of being an exceptional nation, with a “Manifest Destiny” that, after World War II, empowered it to take the reins of the capitalist world. To the structural racism of Western culture, which despises Latin American, African and Asian cultures, was added, during the more than four decades of the Cold War, an anti-communist phobia promoted by the United States.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union the destiny they believed they had achieved stumbled against insubordinate peoples and emerging powers.
To sustain its economic and political power, it invaded countries in Africa and the Middle East and encouraged “Islamophobia” as a cultural tool to accompany the supremacist discourse against the invaded countries.
The new millennium began with the consolidation of a large Latin American anti-imperialist bloc, a Russia that was rebuilding itself politically and economically from the ashes of the USSR, and a China that had silently become a power that today is challenging for first place as the strongest world economy.
Now, in the face of the slow collapse of imperialism and its unipolar world, the United States is preparing to generate new wars rather than accept being just another power in a multipolar world. As we said, these conflicts require it to sow and manufacture more fears and phobias.
The question is how to justify an American supremacist discourse on two powerful cultures, and particularly on the millenary Chinese culture, cradle of many of the greatest inventions of humanity, and at whose root is the avoidance of conflicts that put at risk the peace that the Chinese people know how to value.
The use of the pandemic to arouse “Sinophobia”.
As soon as China announced the appearance of a contagious virus on its territory that gradually turned into a pandemic, the United States began to promote that phobia against China that it requires to pave the way for war.
Donald Trump, one of the most representative US presidents of white supremacism, began to speak of the “Chinese virus” instead of using the scientific name assigned to it.
Trump fed the thesis that the new coronavirus had been created by China to establish a kind of world control from the death of millions of people.
But this thesis of the then U.S. president fell under its own weight. Firstly because it is illogical and almost ridiculous to think that China would have launched a biological weapon on its own territory, and secondly because, as later confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO), it was highly unlikely that this virus had originated in a laboratory. But even so, this accusation continues and has achieved great media impact.
A study published a few months ago by the American Public Health Association established a link between Trump’s first tweet using the words “Chinese virus” with an increase in racist and xenophobic anti-Asian expressions on social networks, and the execution of hate crimes against the Asian community living in the United States.
A few months into his presidency, Joe Biden ordered his country’s so-called “intelligence community” to produce a report on the origins of the virus. According to the final report, there was no consensus among the intelligence agencies on the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused Covid-19.
The investigation concluded that it had not been designed as a biological weapon and that it was not possible to be sure that it had come from a Chinese laboratory, but the discourse of the new US government continues to point to China as responsible for the pandemic.
In both cases, the aforementioned mass communication cartels were in charge of spreading these theories that were so useful to promote the desired “Sinophobia” in Western countries. First by feeding uncertainty about the origin of the pandemic, and then by stigmatizing even the culinary customs and traditional medicine of the Asian giant.
The reason for this campaign, which as we have pointed out is maintained in various forms, whoever is in charge in the White House, is precisely the need to reaffirm the racist and xenophobic idea of American supremacism to justify the aggression they have carried out and those they probably plan to carry out in the near future against China.
Who produces biological weapons
Meanwhile, in that struggle, Washington has chosen to focus first on Russia to try to displace it from the geopolitical chessboard, so that it can later focus on the ultimate conflict it has with China.
That is why the United States has pushed the war in Ukraine using NATO to sacrifice the whole of Europe, which will then serve to reissue a Marshall Plan that will guarantee the continuity of its subordination. Consequently, an unprecedented censorship against Russia is being imposed today along with a vicious “Russophobia”.
At the beginning of March of this year, the Russian government exposed the existence of biological laboratories in Ukraine in which dangerous research is being carried out and biological weapons are being produced. Evidence of the leading role of the US Department of Defense in these laboratories was presented by a Bulgarian journalist and tacitly assumed by the US Under Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, who confirmed the existence of these laboratories and expressed the concern of the US government that the materials found there should not “fall into the hands of Russian forces”, before the US Senate, which proves that these laboratories are of military importance.
Following this information, the spokesman of the Ministry of Defense of the People’s Republic of China accused in a press conference held a few days ago that China was the victim of attacks with biological weapons in the past and for this reason has always advocated for the complete prohibition and eradication of this type of weapons of mass destruction, and therefore called on the United States to respect the “Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction” signed in 1972; It also asked the U.S. government to clarify to world public opinion what it is doing in the 336 biological laboratories it owns and operates in 30 countries around the world.
Recently in Our America, for example, the Colombian opposition demanded the government of Duque to reveal if U.S. nuclear or biological weapons are stored in the country, since after his meeting with Joe Biden on March 10, the Colombian president publicly stated that Colombia, “can store in our territory equipment for the United States that could be useful in any risk situation”.
But in the face of all this evidence about the production of biological weapons by the United States that put the whole world at risk, the big media corporations have chosen to downplay the importance of this serious information or simply to remain silent.
This makes it clear, once again that these media cartels are at the service of US supremacist discourse to promote their phobias and justify their wars, and reminds us that world peace also requires great battles in the field of communication.
Source: Telesur, translation Resumen Latinoamericano – English
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