THE NOTORIOUS N.E.D. MANAGED to get a space in the South China Morning Post today to play its favorite game: demonizing the Chinese. 惡名昭彰的N.E.D.今天設法在《南華早報》取得版面，大玩它最喜歡的把戲：妖魔化中國。
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The paper published a report attributed to “China Labour Watch” listing examples of harshly negative treatment of workers in China.
But the crucial information that China Labour Watch is funded by the US propaganda sector (the N.E.D., and the International Republican Institute–a core N.E.D. division, plus units of the US State Department and other traditional co-funders) is not provided to readers, nor is the fact that it is based in the US.
This classic N.E.D. propaganda technique is known as “weaponization of human rights”.
N.E.D. units highlight violations in China despite the fact that far worse violations occur in multiple other countries, including in the west. Examples given may be real, but selection bias creates a false image.
COSPLAYING HUMAN RIGHTS
The US has used this technique for three decades, cosplaying as human rights organizations, to create an image of China as a uniquely bad transgressor of human rights, which is simply untrue.
The International Labor Organization says China has hit far more positive targets in the area of workers’ rights than the United States.
China has ratified seven out of the “fundamental conventions” of the ILO.
The US has ratified only two.
CARELESS MEDIA
But the US uses the careless media into making the world believe China is the problem. Since the early 1990s, the N.E.D. has provided millions of US dollars to Hong Kong “NGOs” working in China earmarked “for the monitoring of labor rights violations…”
As their own text showed, they were NOT focused on gathering the truth, but were only interested in the negative – “violations” only, please.
The South China Morning is a Hong Kong-based news outlet. But despite being owned by Alibaba, it still publishes N.E.D. content.
The same is true for many other news outlets around the world. Groups such as China Labor Watch don’t mention their paymasters, and journalists wittingly or unwittingly fail to check before publishing.
NOT IN DISPUTE
The political destabilization role of the units of the N.E.D., or National Endowment for Democracy, is not in dispute. The US government in its 2027 budget proposal openly describes it as a unit which works to “destabilize sovereign governments”.
Although the N.E.D. has infiltrated scores of countries around the world, its first destabilization operation, starting in 1984, was focused on China—and it has since spent hundreds of millions of dollars to cultivate anti-government feeling in Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as organizing anti-China groups employing people from Xinjiang and Tibet.
The west’s sector stepped up demonization of China operations massively from 2018 onwards, to exploit the media to create consent for a planned US war on the Chinese, which is peacefully but speedily developing through innovation and trade.
One day, the world will wake up to all this. Be nice if the South China Morning Post played its part.
Johnson Choi Biz 