Yesterday, June 28th, 2021, a Chinese national was wounded after an attack was executed in Karachi, Pakistan. The assailant used a gun despite Pakistan’s strict antigun laws to target Chinese citizens for death as China is beginning to extend its presence into foreign lands that don’t appreciate Chinese imperialism any more than they appreciated American imperialism.
This news is not as significant as how China is responding to the action, choosing to brand this as an “isolated incident,” despite the recent bus bombing in the region of Kohistan, Pakistan. 9 Chinese nationals, all engineers, were killed in that attack.
This move, to this writer, seems to be more about the dome4stic audience at home than the audience abroad, especially the Pakistani one, as the CCP will have to use its media corporations (in the same way the DNC does here in America) to convince the Chinese whatever they need to convince them to push the narratives forward that keep them in power and extend it.
As more Chinese die in foreign lands as a result of Chinese imperialism, this effort will become increasingly difficult even for the CCP to manage.
It was the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian who labeled the assault an “isolated” incident not indicative of any collective sentiment by the Pakistani people themselves.
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