Dragon’s ‘Wag the Dog’ Moment
Dragon’s ‘Wag the Dog’ Moment While it is expected of Chinese media to ignore and distort Hong Kong protests, Indian media’s silence on the issue is puzzling While most modern states, democratic or otherwise, use some sort of reasonable disinformation, communist and other despotic regimes are notorious for propaganda and information manipulation. Chinese government headed by the Communist Party too is propagandist no less. It has been months (since March 2019) when anti-government protests in Hong Kong (HK) first broke out. HK was a British colony acquired on a hundred-year lease until 1997 when its territorial sovereignty was restored to the People’s Republic of China. The spate of protests was sparked off as a reaction to a proposed extradition bill that would have expanded the range of countries where suspected offenders may be extradited to Mainland China. Fearing political persecution given the history...