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I’ve written plenty about “The China Game.” Now, China’s propaganda machine has issued an article for the English-reading public titled: “Is Washington Playing A Deeper Game With China?”

In this piece, China is claiming that a US-supported NGO is behind the recent rioting in the western province of Xinjiang. This is better than anything you’ll see on television tonight:

After the tragic events of July 5 in Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region in China, it would be useful to look more closely into the actual role of the US Government’s “independent” NGO, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). All indications are that the US Government, once more acting through its “private” Non-Governmental Organization, the NED, is massively intervening into the internal politics of China.

The reasons for Washington’s intervention into Xinjiang affairs seems to have little to do with concerns over alleged human rights abuses by Beijing authorities against Uyghur people.

The major organization internationally calling for protests in front of Chinese embassies around the world is the Washington, D.C.-based World Uyghur Congress (WUC). The WUC manages to finance a staff, a very fancy website in English, and has a very close relation to the US Congress-funded NED. According to published reports by the NED itself, the World Uyghur Congress receives $215,000.00 annually from the National Endowment for Democracy for “human rights research and advocacy projects.”

The NED was intimately involved in financial support to various organizations behind the Lhasa “Crimson Revolution” in March 2008, as well as the Saffron Revolution in Burma/Myanmar and virtually every regime change destabilization in eastern Europe over the past years from Serbia to Georgia to Ukraine to Kyrgystan to Teheran in the aftermath of the recent elections.

…Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, was quite candid when he said in a published interview in 1991: “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.”

This sort of article is so entertaining that I wonder if it can’t be distinguished from plainer examples of propaganda. It’s as though the effort were conscious, that the authors were shooting for a kind of “entertainment propaganda.” Or maybe they take the article as factual, that it is Beijing’s real view of what is happening in Xinjiang.

The article doesn’t reference the accompanying map, but the backstory apparently involves an oil pipeline.

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