u/moon

For the record, every major country is enagaged in Political Warfare against their enemies so I've said nothing controversial. Secondly, China is not inherantly bad or inherantly virtuous. They participate on the global stage just like everyone else, so you should ask yourself why you immediately dismiss China's agency here. Finally, and most importantly, China's approach to Political Warfare is laid out in the Three Warfares doctine, and has been well-documented. You can read more about it here if you're really interested acting in good faith: https://sci-hub.ru/10.1080/01402390.2013.870071

If not, you can continue to label people who say things you don't like as conspiracy theorists. Oh and I'm not a Democrat, I'm probably further to the left than most people on this app but I don't worship or apologise for vast and powerful nation states. Whether that's China or anyone else.

Edit: spelling

I think it's important to make such arguments without neglecting to point out that some very real, very desperate people are counting on the assistance USAID currently provides. People will die because of this.

A much less evil way to handle this is to reroute the funds to some benign organisation who will carry out the existing functions of USAID. But that's not what Musk is doing. There's no nuance. Much like his first month at Twitter, he's just taking a wrecking ball to the government and seeing what's left standing. Unfortunately the largest imperialist arms of the US government (State Department, DoD) are still left standing, while the one that is currently relied upon by some of the most desperate souls on the planet has been destroyed.

It was no secret that USAID was an arm of the State Department and used as a smokescreen for CIA business. But that won't matter to all the mothers who will watch their infants die because Musk pulled the plug with no warning

That's literally what USAID was for. For spreading anti-communist, pro-capitalist, sentiment by feeding the needy. Until the world's ~~evilest~~ richest man got rid of it and showed how nakedly corrupt the US political system is

Let's not forget that China is actively engaged in political and information warfare against the West. Any hypocrisy they can point out will just contribute to the fracturing of alliances between the West and the rest of the world. So it very much benefits them, strategically and financially, to point out stuff like this. Not that I think the people of Gaza will care about the selfish reasons a superpower might have for speaking up for them