how to build a #narrative: marvel and learn from the masters of '#truth by repeated assertion'

first there was kishore mehbubani, an indian-origin singaporean diplomat, long known as a chinese shill. https://www.nus.edu.sg/alumnet/thealumnus/issue-124/perspectives/panorama/biden-and-china-friends-or-foes

then there was kevin rudd, a solid sinophile former aus PM saying “resistance is futile” and that you MUSTN’T contain china. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-02-05/kevin-rudd-usa-chinese-confrontation-short-of-war#author-info

then the FT’s martin wolf told us you CANNOT fend off china, quoting mehbubani. https://www.ft.com/content/83a521c0-6abb-4efa-be48-89ecb52c8d01

then the chinese propaganda entity global times tells us this is true, china is the supreme power, center of the universe. exhibit A: martin wolf’s article. https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1154379.shtml (h/t to @SCS_Disputes)

so who’s left now in this coronation of china? india (ok indian-origin kishore, tho i’m sure there are several actual indian resident fifth-columnists who are dying to say the same thing), australia, britain.

ok, so japan is missing, and the US. i have a candidate for the US: susan shirk, former obamista aide, now at the university of california at san diego. she’ll be happy to let us know how it’s time to kowtow abjectly to china.

honestly, i don’t know if they’ll be able to find a japanese to toe this line. they are a people, on average, with dignity.

but do you see how this works? you keep piling up those quotes, and lo! it has become “truth by repeated assertion”.

in less polite circles, this is known as a “circle-j**k”.