> In 1949, China declared independence, an event known in Western discourse as “the #LossOfChina” — in the U.S., with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss. The terminology is revealing. It is only possible to lose something that one owns. The tacit assumption was that the #USA owned #China, by right, along with most of
the rest of the world
https://chomsky.info/20120214/
#JohnPilger's #ComingWarOnChina #documentary made me think of these lines by #NoamChomsky