It is our patriotic duty to hate China

The Globe and Mail leads off today's orgy of China bashing with this headline; "Canada, allies condemn China's security law over Hong Kong."

Yup, Canada and "our allies," in this case consisting of the US, UK, and Australia. That's a pretty small club of allies, clearly led not by Canada, but by Washington. This is why the anti-China rhetoric we find in the Globe is indistinguishable from that found on Fox News. Canadian media give US propaganda a Canadian spin by pretending that we're "leading" this alliance, when in reality we are meekly following Washington, as are the UK and Australia.

The lead story is followed up with a trifecta of anti-China rants on the opinion page.

Gary Mason makes this observation; "China's despicable conduct in Hong Kong has only fortified the resentment Canadians hold toward a cruel and treacherous regime that is increasingly a menace to the world."

As Gary Mason himself and anyone who follows these matters knows, it is the US and not China that is consistently, in poll after worldwide poll, fingered as the leading menace to the world.

If you think Mason's harrumphing is over the top, get a load of the whopper Lynette Ong uncorks on the same page; "In the past three decades, the world has enjoyed relative safety in no small part to US-led unipolarity, and the resulting Western alliance that champions democracy and liberal values."

Indeed! In the last thirty years the US-led Western alliance has bestowed democracy and liberal values on Grenada, Panama, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine.

With that thirty-year track record of success behind us, it's about time we tackled China! No doubt the Chinese people are clamouring for a taste of "relative safety" too, and will welcome any intervention by the Western allies in the name of democracy and liberal values!

What a joke.