China’s new diplomacy in Europe has a name: broken porcelain

The Guardian ^ | Oct. 17, 2018 | David Bandurski

[BlackAdderess]

Two days after Sweden’s election in September, a bizarre statement appeared in English on the website of the Chinese embassy in Stockholm. A “small handful of Swedish forces, media and individuals”, it said, had made “unwarranted claims” of Chinese interference in the Swedish vote. These were “groundless accusations”, and a “malicious attack and smear against China”. The strangest thing of all: no one in Sweden  had the slightest inkling what the statement referred to.(snip)

(snip) Pengci refers to the practice of manufacturing drama to obtain a desired outcome.(snip)

(snip) Now, pengci often refers to the act of throwing oneself into oncoming traffic in order to claim compensation – a practice so common in China that related compilations of clips online are now nearly as ubiquitous as cat videos.(snip)

[BlackAdderess]

This is a great explanation of so much of what is going on in our world...

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

It’s not just the PRC, that’s been the modus operandus of the entire Leftard movement for generations. Create provocations real or imaginary, then pump the propaganda machines. Creating actual dead or wounded victims (causing police or military violent responses) is best of all for leftist “progressive” propaganda, but faking victims works well, too.

[tbw2]

When you give victimhood extra moral weight in disputes, you get more manufactured victimhood.

Double digit numbers of teens self-bully online to get sympathy and attention

Cyberbullying’s chilling trend: Teens anonymously target themselves online, study finds
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/11/08/cyberbullings-chilling-trenda-growing-number-teens-anonymously-bullying-themselves-online-study-find/831070001/

There aren’t enough real hate crimes for liberals to justify their demands, so they literally manufacture them.

The literal fake hate crimes list
http://fakehatecrimes.org/