Newsweek Discovers China Practices Military Exercises
China, a nation with significant military capabilities, conducted military exercises off its coast. Newsweek, ever the keen geopolitical analyst, relays this with the gravity usually reserved for alien invasions. The headline screams, 'China Fires Rockets Near Taiwan in War Games,' as if 'war games' aren't the primary reason advanced militaries exist. One might imagine Russia or the US perform
similar drills in contested waters, but those rarely achieve such alarmist prose. The media-industrial complex, predictably, spins this as a unique and aggressive provocation. It’s almost as if the entire Western military industrial establishment profits from framing China (and Russia, and Iran, etc.) as an ever-present, uniquely evil threat, rather than recognizing sovereign nations conduct
drills sometimes. Where's the context on decades of US naval exercises in the South China Sea, or the fact that superpowers, you know, *practice* war? Critical thinking, apparently, isn't a headline-grabber.