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[Xyz @Eva80835427]

@Pedalecarre @zhousheng6688 Unfortunately there are way too many Westerners shamelessly spouting nonsense, makes it hard to tell who is being sarcastic 😅

[Xyz @Eva80835427]

@Maulest @yiyun1zdn A rapist has no right to criticize how his victim coped with the trauma. A Westerner has no right to criticize how China restored itself after a century of plundering by the West. A rapist should apologize for the rape. The French should apologize for the Eight-Nation Alliance.

[Xyz @Eva80835427]

@Wenyuhu264468 @yiyun1zdn 德国人只认了屠杀犹太人的错，他们有为八国联军反省吗？

[yiyun @yiyun1zdn]

LMAO, so you inherit all the glory of French history, but refuse to acknowledge its dark colonial past? 🤣

When Napoleon wins a battle, you shout, "We French are so great!"

But the moment colonial crimes are mentioned, you suddenly go, "Sorry, I wasn't even born back then." 😂

Wow! Historical achievements are inherited by the whole family, but historical responsibility magically disappears!

The French version of selective amnesia. 🤣

[Xyz @Eva80835427]

@rinalu_ Westerners: The Chinese people chose the starve themselves for fun during 1958-61. Obviously the Century of Humiliation that just ended a decade prior had nothing to do with it. 🙃

[Rina Lu🇷🇺 @rinalu_]

Britain got China addicted to opium, and when China tried to stop it, Britain went to war to keep selling.

In the 19th century, British merchants flooded China with opium grown in British-ruled Bengal. By the late 1830s millions of Chinese were addicted, and China's silver was flowing out to pay for the drug.

In 1839, Chinese commissioner Lin Zexu seized and destroyed more than 20,000 chests of British opium in Canton. London answered with gunboats.

China lost the First Opium War. Under the 1842 Treaty of Nanking it paid Britain 21 million silver dollars, opened five ports to British trade and handed over Hong Kong. After the Second Opium War, the opium trade was made legal.

By 1906, an imperial edict admitted that three or four out of every ten Chinese were smoking it.

[Seaskyblue_T @Seaskyblue_T02]

@LAURENTMICHEL0N 自1971年至2021年的50年间，由美国及欧盟等西方实体实施的单边经济制裁导致的估算超额死亡人数约为 3800 万（其中2010至2021年间年均超额死亡约 56.4 万人）。

数据来源：
柳叶刀2025年，《Effects of international sanctions on age-specific mortality: a cross-national panel data analysis》。

[Laurent Michelon @LAURENTMICHEL0N]

First implement a food and medication embargo on a country.

Famines and epidemics follow.

The population grows restless and wonders if changing leadership would make all its problems go away.

Meanwhile, encourage migration to the West of a diaspora which is promised to be the ones to take over if they assist in taking down the government.

Foment rebellion and demonstrations through the patient, termite-like work of NGOs : leech on legitimate concerns of the population, provide training, tools and comms to radical groups, and turn up the heat on the demonstrations to the point they become violent and the government is now facing riots and has to send in anti-riot police.

Have all Western mainstream media and chancelleries speak of "police brutality", even if there hasn't been any.
Speak of "blood-thirsty regime", and challenge its legitimacy to stay in power.

Have the Western audience basically say " I support the regime change because I love the people of that country, I juat hate their government".

This is what China, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. have been facing, some of them for decades !!

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

Same as Iran is subject to an embargo, so was China for a long time.

Be informed.
Not entertained.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They will tell you the embargo is about "democracy."

About "human rights."

About the Cuban people’s "freedom."

For the Cuban people’s freedom, they have spent 66 years making the Cuban people’s lives harder.

For the Cuban people’s freedom, they have blocked medicine and food and economic development.

For the Cuban people’s freedom, they have maintained a policy their own analysts say strengthens the government they claim to oppose.

If this is what concern for the Cuban people looks like from the outside, one wonders what indifference would look like.

The stated rationale and the actual mechanism are in complete contradiction.

A policy designed to help a population does not function by harming that population.

A policy designed to harm a population until its government changes is not a human rights policy.

The cruelty is in the policy.

The compassion is in the press release.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

Dear German,

I have lost count of how many times I have seen Germans openly accuse Chinese people of being antisemitic.

Apparently, Germany has become so addicted to its own historical guilt that it now expects the rest of the world to inherit it.

Chinese people do not carry an ancestral hatred of Jews.

During the Holocaust, while Nazi Germany was persecuting Jews, Chinese diplomat Ho Feng-Shan in Vienna issued visas that helped Jewish families escape Nazi-controlled Austria and reach safety.

Ask yourself what Germany was doing at the same time.

China does not need lectures from Germans about how Chinese people are supposed to feel toward Jews.
Our history with the Jewish people is not your history.
And our historical memory works differently.

China was the greatest victim of fascist aggression in Asia.

Japanese militarism invaded China, occupied its cities, massacred civilians, conducted human experimentation, and tried to destroy Chinese resistance.

If China adopted the moral logic Germany now seems to demand from everyone else, then Chinese victimhood would supposedly grant us the right to punish entire nations forever, demand endless obedience to our historical trauma, and call anyone who resisted “anti-Chinese.”

We do not.

Because Chinese civilization carries another memory:

曾经淋过雨的人，学会为别人撑伞。
Those who have once stood in the rain learn to hold an umbrella for others.

That is why Palestinians resonate so deeply with Chinese historical memory.

Chinese people see occupation.

They see civilians buried under rubble.
They see families driven from their homes.
They see a powerful military telling the world that its own security justifies another people’s suffering.

And they remember what was once done to China.

That is why opposition to Israeli state violence is not hatred of Jews.

It is precisely because Chinese people remember what fascist aggression looked like when we were its victims.

Israel is condemned not because Jews once suffered.

It is condemned because historical suffering does not grant anyone a permanent license to reproduce oppression against another people.

A victim can become a perpetrator.

History has seen this before.

And no amount of German guilt can oblige Chinese people to pretend otherwise.

Germany may organize its politics around its own historical burden.

China will not.

Our memory leads us somewhere else:

Those who were once oppressed should recognize the oppressed.

And that is why the Chinese people stand with the Palestinian people.

[Xyz @Eva80835427]

@Chinaview0022 哪怕是韩国人拿朝鲜战争抱怨他，印度拿边境冲突抱怨他，我们虽然也会反对但起码还能理解，毕竟立场不同。但那些西方人根本不配张口，中国没有侵略他们，他们口中的最大受害者居然还是我们，简直荒谬至极。他们是加害者，没有资格指责受害者如何让自己重新站起来。

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

These were the atrocities the British committed in Kenya 🇰🇪, yet some gullible people especially Africans keep defending colonialism. The hut/poll tax was designed to force Africans into the cash economy and wage labor for settlers and public works; non-payment meant livestock seizure, imprisonment, or hard labor. That was one tool.

The same administration reserved the fertile White Highlands exclusively for Europeans (millions of acres alienated under Crown Lands ordinances), overcrowding Native Reserves and creating squatters. During the 1952–60 Emergency, tens of thousands were detained without trial in camps where beatings, torture, and forced labor were systematic. At Hola in March 1959, 11 detainees were clubbed to death by guards for refusing work; officials initially claimed they died from contaminated water. Over 1,000 were hanged under emergency regulations. These were policy outcomes, not isolated excesses.

[Xyz @Eva80835427]

@Chinaview0022 而且这个话题本来就该西方人闭嘴才对。我们讨论的是一个【中国】领导怎么对待【中国人】的，我们自己没嘴要他们说？何况这个领导人还是带领我们从【西方国家】对我们的迫害中走出来的，这帮【西方人】也配说三道四？

[Xyz @Eva80835427]

@Chinaview0022 哪怕是韩国人拿朝鲜战争抱怨他，印度拿边境冲突抱怨他，我们虽然也会反对但起码还能理解，毕竟立场不同。但那些西方人根本不配张口，中国没有侵略他们，他们口中的最大受害者居然还是我们，简直荒谬至极。他们是加害者，没有资格指责受害者如何让自己重新站起来。

[Xyz @Eva80835427]

@Chinaview0022 而且这个话题本来就该西方人闭嘴才对。我们讨论的是一个【中国】领导怎么对待【中国人】的，我们自己没嘴要他们说？何况这个领导人还是带领我们从【西方国家】对我们的迫害中走出来的，这帮【西方人】也配说三道四？

[China View @Chinaview0022]

🇨🇳 中国人在X上反击反华言论，为什么反而有人要求中国人闭嘴？

长期以来，一些海外舆论圈形成了奇怪的双重标准：

他们可以随意嘲讽中国、歪曲中国历史、攻击中国文化；可一旦中国人站出来反驳，就被指责为“咄咄逼人”。

凭什么？

过去，一些人习惯了自己的偏见无人反驳，于是把中国人的沉默误认为默认，把中国人的克制误认为软弱。

现在，中国网民开始用事实、历史和逻辑公开反击，他们反而不适应了。

尊重从来不是靠沉默换来的，更不是靠讨好赢来的。

你有批评中国的自由，中国人同样有反驳你的权利。

我们不需要让所有人喜欢中国，但也不必为了获得他们的好感而放弃尊严。

如果只有中国人保持沉默，才能换来所谓的“友好”，那究竟是尊重，还是要求中国人单方面忍让？

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

TLDR; The CIA poured cash into a plot for a secret army from Taiwan to invade southern China from Burma — and accidentally financed the birth of the Golden Triangle, a heroin empire which killed huge numbers of people

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Chapter 1: THE CHOICE
US PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN had a gut feeling that he should stay out of Taiwan. “The United States Government will not pursue a course which will lead to involvement in the civil conflict in China,” he wrote on 5 January, 1950.

But the C.I.A. felt differently: their modus operandi was to choose one side and covertly arm it.

- People on the mainland, as socialists, were more organized, more serious, and surprisingly good at spycraft. But they were commies!

- The nationalists on Taiwan island had a reputation for being tricky and unpredictable. But they were capitalists.

CIA leaders made their fateful choice.

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Chapter 2: THE SECRET ARMY
THE CIA LEARNED that the Taiwan-based nationalists had assembled a secret army in Burma to “recover” China from the communists.

Led by General Li Mi of the Kuomintang, or KMT, the attack force communicated with Taipei through a confidential radio office in Bangkok.

The CIA used its own planes to add more soldiers from Taiwan, plus weapons from an arsenal on Okinawa—and plenty of cash. The operation was coordinated by CIA men Alfred Cox in Hong Kong and Sherman Joost in Bangkok.

In May 1951, Li Mi’s secret army invaded China from the south, accompanied by CIA officers.

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Chapter 3: SPYCRAFT
IT WAS A DISASTER. The Chinese seemed to be waiting for them in Yunnan province—and picked them off wherever they turned. In less than a month, the effort was in full retreat.

A second incursion, in July, went even more badly, with the Chinese chasing them out in a week.

What the KMT didn’t know until much later was that the Chinese had quietly replaced the nationalist radio man in Bangkok with one of their own operatives — they were good at spycraft, as mentioned.

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Chapter 4: EMBARRASSMENT
AT CHRISTMAS IN 1951, Beijing complained in public that the United States had ferried Nationalist soldiers and weapons to Burma to create conflict. The controversy was raised at the United Nations. US diplomats lied, saying on the record that the US had no involvement whatsoever.

But Washington was embarrassed when an 11 February 1952 New York Times report quoted witnesses in Burma who had seen Li Mi’s soldiers proudly showing off their brand-new American weapons.

That summer, Li Mi led yet another invasion of China. On 2 August, some 2,100 Nationalists got less than 100 km into the country before being driven out.

But despite the supply of arms and cash, and even US training, the latest operation was not progressing. As time passed, it became clear to the CIA that the secret army was busy with something else.

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Chapter 5: THE TWIST
During their years’ hiding in mountains of northern Burma, the KMT’s secret force had made two discoveries. One was that an extremely valuable crop, opium, was grown in those mountains, and the other was that they liked southeast Asian women.

Their capitalist urges trumped their political ones. They married the women and became wealthy opium plantation owners and drug distributors.

By 1953, Washington’s official line was to ask Chiang Kai-shek in Taipei to remove the men from Burma. That year, 7,000 troops were airlifted to Taiwan—but at least that number insisted on staying, and thousands more decided to remain in neighboring Thailand.

The CIA saw the “Golden Triangle” drug trade as a positive, potentially making their covert armies self-financing. “The U.S. use of the drug traffic from the KMT troops in Burma had momentous consequences for the whole of Southeast Asia,” said historian Peter Dale Scott in the Asia Pacific Journal.

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Chapter 6: RICH AND ARMED
BY THE EARLY 1960s, the Burmese were desperate to get the KMT out, and the CIA was intrigued to discover that the PLA, China’s army, had agreed to help.

But even they couldn’t eradicate the rebels, who were rich, strong, and well-armed, and now controlled 90 percent of Burmese opium—and “almost a third of the world’s opium supply”, according to CIA Far East operative Richard Stilwell.

In 1961, the leaders in Taipei cut off all payments to their people in Burma. But the KMT secret army responded that this just made the drug trade more crucial: they had to expand it to cover their soldiers’ salaries.

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Chapter 7: A WIN AND A LOSS
IN TRUTH, the secret army had lost all interest in invading China. And they found themselves under fire in their new profession. In 1967, the drug operation had spread into Laos and Vietnam, and the KMT were soon fighting a war against rival warlords.

The Taiwanese eventually defeated their main opponent Khun Sa, a Burmese, but during the fighting, a Lao general confiscated a large amount of opium and supplied it to multiple users across East Asia.

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Chapter 8: PEACE
The 1967 opium war ended the Burma KMT’s 15-year control of the region’s main heroin distribution routes, although their business continued.

The CIA had spent a fortune over many years supporting the plan to “recover China” and had nothing to show for it.

In 1969, Henry Kissinger defunded many of the CIA operations in and around China. In 1971, he flew secretly to Beijing to make peace.

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EPILOGUE
And what happened to the secret army that Taiwan and the US had secretly funded for years?

“The Nationalists maintained forces in Burma no longer under CIA control. These later grew to as many as twelve thousand and continued their drug trafficking right into the 1980s,” wrote historian John Prados.

For the US, the experience “helped institutionalize what became a CIA habit of turning to drug-supported off-the-books assets for fighting wars wherever there appeared to be a threat to America’s access to oil and other resources,” wrote Peter Dale Scott.

But as so often happened, the CIA’s lawless antics harmed all sides—including the US itself. The opium grabbed by the Lao general was turned into heroin and secretly sold in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s.

Many of the buyers were American troops fighting in South Vietnamese jungles, young men desperately stressed out after being commissioned to win an unwinnable war.

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Sources:
American War Machine by Peter Dale Scott; The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence; Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner; Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA by John Prados.

[Xyz @Eva80835427]

@caithe1159673 补上一个美加讨论的报导（很长，可以ctrl-F“wheat”从那里开始看）https://t.co/fSaTU4wiHo 注意这是美方的报导，已经是最偏向他们那边了。另外那个加拿大总理在下一场选举落选了，似乎也有美国的掺和 https://t.co/Ve0j72aJdm （当然争执是多重的，卖麦子给中国只是其中一个）

[一只大肥鱼 @caithe1159673]

你连自己国家的历史都不去了解？

当时的加拿大被美国补贴大量倾销的小麦冲烂了本地市场，而本地产的小麦无法消化堆积如山急需出口，但美国依然不准加拿大向中国出口粮食

当时的加拿大政府本就因为倾销对美国不满，小麦又必须及时出售，于是和中国开始秘密商谈

美国知道加拿大想要向中国出口粮食后，先是通过敌国出口法案恐吓威胁加拿大企业，又通过不提供燃料企图阻止运粮船出发，并且还通过禁止堆积加拿大出售运粮设备，还在海关上多方刁难负责运输的加拿大公司

当时加拿大政府向美国多次抗议，甚至直接说这是侵犯加拿大主权，最后美国看加拿大态度过于强硬才没能阻止

为了反对共产主义连最基本的是非对错都不要了，你可真是悲哀