What would western outrage look like if China, rather than the United States, had carried out decades of military interventions and political interference?

Imagine the white-hot outrage in the west if China had committed one of the following foreign interventions by the USA. For example, imagine if…

Instead of the US helping forcibly put down independence movements immediately after WWII in Greece, China, the Philippines and South Korea, with hundreds of thousands dead; it had been China quashing those independence movements, with hundreds of thousands dead.

Instead of the US blatantly manipulating post-war elections in countries such as France, Italy, Japan and South Korea to ensure its favoured anti-communist parties rule; it had been China intervening in those countries to ensure its favoured communist parties rule.

Instead of the US overthrowing democratic governments in Iran in 1953 and Guatemala in 1954, ushering in long-ruling dictators; it had been China overthrowing those democratic governments.

Instead of the US conducting invasions, attempted assassinations, industrial sabotage, chemical and biological warfare, and general terrorism in Cuba over the last 65-odd years, as well as imposing crippling embargoes and sanctions; it had been China terrorising South Korea in those ways.

Instead of the US invading Vietnam in 1965 to prop up a South Vietnamese dictatorship, with millions dead; China had invaded Vietnam in 1965 to prop up a North Vietnamese dictatorship, with millions dead in the process.

Instead of the US engineering the overthrow of a democratically elected communist Chilean govt in 1973, China had done the same to a non-communist government in Chile.

Instead of the US arming and training the Contras in the 1980s to terrorise Nicaraguans in order to overthrow the Nicaraguan government, killing 30,000 in the process; it had been China directing the terror against a US-backed Nicaraguan government.

Instead of the US illegally invading Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 on flimsy pretexts, with hundreds of thousands dead; China had illegally invaded those countries on trumped up grounds, killing hundreds of thousands in the process.

Instead of US-run NATO continually expanding towards the Russian border in breach of a US promise to Russia not to do so; a China-run defence grouping was currently expanding up the Central American isthmus towards Mexico in breach of a Chinese promise to the US not to do so.

Instead of a US-backed coup overthrowing a democratically elected Ukrainian government in 2014 and installing a Western-friendly regime, there had been a China-backed coup overthrowing the Canadian government and installing a China-friendly regime on the US border.

Instead of the US conducting freedom of navigation exercises in the South China Sea; China has been conducting freedom of navigation exercises in the Caribbean or the Coral Sea.

Instead of the US militarily encircling China with heavily armed and deliberately frightened allies, military bases, navy fleets and submarines for the last 75 years; China had been militarily encircling the US in the same way.

Instead of the US militarily arming Taiwan; China had been basing missiles in Cuba as the USSR had done in 1962.

Instead of the US covertly encouraging separatist movements in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet and Xinjiang Province to divide and weaken China; China had been encouraging similar independence movements in Alaska and Hawaii.

Instead of US-backed Israel killing tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians and razing their cities to the ground in response to the October 7 massacre; China had killed tens of thousands of Uighur civilians and razed Uighur cities to the ground in response to a similar Uighur terror attack in China.

Instead of the US bombing oil-rich Iran ostensibly to destroy its alleged nuclear weapons capability, China had bombed South Korea to destroy its suspected nuclear capability.

Instead of the US kidnapping the President of Venezuela for trumped up reasons, China had kidnapped the President of the Philippines on spurious grounds.

Instead of the US demanding the possession of Greenland by one means or another, China was demanding its possession.

Instead of the US threatening the sovereignty of Canada, China was doing the same to Japan.

Now, imagine if China had committed not just one of these outrages, but all of them, just as the USA has done. Imagine the whiter-than-white-hot outrage in the west about the enduring evil, horror, terror and perfidy that is China. But when it’s the USA we’re talking about, well, perhaps there was the occasional, regrettable excess of well-meaning democratic zeal.