The New York Times editorial department is continuing to propagate the wildest, dumbest drivel about U.S.-China relations. Are pandas really going to “save” humanity? https://lnkd.in/esRscMxc
The author is a journalist who covers animals. Why does the Times continue to let opera singers and others with zero China knowledge take advantage of one of America’s most visible opinion platforms, namely the Times’ editorial pages, which are managed separately from its news department.
The news department is plugged into reality–China is providing crucial assistance to the Russians in their invasion of Ukraine and is buying billions of dollars worth of Iranian oil, giving the mullahs the money they need to sow chaos in the Mideast. The Chinese have planted malware in America’s critical infrastructure that was described in one front page article as a “ticking time bomb.” They have used Artificial Intelligence to generate fake news posts suggesting that the fire in Maui was the result of a secret U.S. government “weather weapon.” TikTok is part of a massive wave of cognitive warfare and espionage.
But here’s how the animal journalist describes U.S.-China relations–“it is a time of political upheaval and relations between the United States and China are strained.” She quotes “a friend” as saying that even though the two nations are experiencing “tensions” politically, they are aligned in their love of pandas and, here’s the clincher, “it may just be now that it’s the pandas who save us.”
Save us from what? Recognizing the reality of what China is doing in the world and galvanizing ourselves to respond? No, it seems, the author wants everyone to go all gooey-eyed over pandas and ignore the genuine crisis that we face. We should expect better from the New York Times.
