The rhetoric coming out of the Biden administration's State and Defense Departments isn't much different from that of the former Trump administration's anti-China rhetoric. The Biden administration's drum beat of war talk against China and North Korea continues to generate or reinforce anti-Asian bias. Statements and articles posing as some sort of objective analysis of geopolitical “threats,” or trade issues, say China threatens our so called "rules based order." Media coverage of government statements imply that the US should dominate Asian affairs and make the rules whether inside China or throughout the world. (Where could this possibly go wrong?) In reality main stream media coverage present one sided propaganda in which “the other” is portrayed as a diabolical enemy. The racist bias in the US public reaction is even more evident in comments made in response to these media reports and the recent increasing numbers of hate crimes committed against Asians in the US.
The giant Wurlitzer churns out anti-Asian stories 24-7. Allegedly they are about “Chinese aggression abroad, national security threats, stealing our patents, potential spies among Chinese students in the US, unfair practices in Chinese international infrastructure initiatives, etc.” Most of it is complete nonsense. It is generated toward supporting tens of billions of dollars more in unnecessary arms expenditures and expansion of US military operations in Asia and Africa. But the practical byproduct is to promote and aggravate racial bias against Asians in general. One could pretend that the government supported promulgation of anti-China reporting only inadvertently promotes racism against Asians, but that would ignore the role of propaganda in appealing to emotion rather than critical thinking to generate support for a potential military response. It's basically another propaganda war against the "Hun" designed by the US national security sector. It also lends itself toward promotion of neo-merchantilist US trade sanctions policy.
One zinger heard recently in a US media commentary was that South Korean "competitors" were unfairly gaining semiconductor business because of US sanctions against Chinese tech companies. While on that subject, the US attitude expressed in defense circles and their think tank proxies toward our South Korean allies, is disdainful and disrespectful, if not racist. Inevitably, mostly white US diplomatic “experts” and general officers know better than the freely elected democratic leaders of South Korea what is good for them. Americans have been digesting an upsurge in this government promoted anti-Asian media content for a few years now. It hasn’t changed with the Biden administration which only nominally expresses sympathy for the victims of anti-Asian hate crimes in the US while “getting ready for war” in Asia. It’s pure hypocrisy.
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