Norwegian media are going all in in the war against Trump. The distortion is systematic. It concerns not only American politics, but also the Iran war and the visit to China. Kristoffer Rønneberg in Aftenposten, who lived for four years in the United States as a correspondent, attempts to present it as though the United States is willing to sell out Taiwan. That is black propaganda. A pure lie.
In return, the Chinese leader wants something major: a new American approach to Taiwan.
On Thursday, Xi said that this is the most important issue in the relationship between China and the United States. He made it clear that the United States risks war with China if the matter is not “handled properly”, as he put it.
Xi wants to incorporate Taiwan into his realm. He describes it as the very core of China’s core interests. And he knows that Trump has shown no noteworthy interest in the self-governing island. Perhaps this state visit could make Trump even more inclined to let Taiwan fend for itself.
If so, a name change for Marco Rubio is a small price to pay.
Our italics. Rønneberg spins a story about the Chinese having allowed Rubio entry by changing the spelling of his name. He has been blacklisted since 2020.
The visit to China was important. But even that the deep-state media manage to twist into something negative for Trump.
Norwegian and Danish media are cruder than foreign media in general. Daily Mail is hardly a heavyweight in foreign affairs, but they do not write such vulgar propaganda as Aftenposten and Berlingske.
Marco Rubio said that the line towards Taiwan is the same one several other administrations have pursued: strategic ambiguity. China is not to know what the response to an invasion would be.
When asked what the administration’s position on Taiwan currently is and what had been discussed, Rubio kept safely to the prepared answer.
“Our policy in that area has not changed,” Rubio told NBC News. “It has been fairly consistent across several presidential administrations, and it remains consistent now.”Xi has repeatedly promised to bring Taiwan under Chinese control, thereby keeping open the possibility of military action. But Rubio warned that any attempt to do so by force would be a “terrible mistake”.
“It would have consequences globally, not only in the United States,” he said. “And we’ll leave it at that.”
This is the line that the Norwegian and Danish media are attempting to undermine. Whom are they working for?
Another feature is the systematic ridicule of Trump.
NRK’s Philip Lote said that Xi surely raised the Taiwan issue when the two men were alone together. Because: Trump has a habit of agreeing with the last speaker.
This is a talking point we recognise from deep-state media in the United States. Now it has arrived in Scandinavia, and it is being used systematically.
Scandinavians are learning to hate the country that guarantees their freedom.
Israel has been subjected to the same hatred for decades. But it has escalated after they went to war against Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. NTB manages to write:
Tones down uranium demands
At the same time, the American president toned down the demand to take over Iran’s uranium stockpile and said that he primarily wanted it for PR reasons and for appearances’ sake.– It just feels better if I get it, but it’s … I mean it’s more a matter of PR than anything else. The other thing we can do is bomb it again, but I would just think it was better to get hold of it, and we are going to get it, Trump said in the interview.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who started the war against Iran together with Trump, recently said, however, that the war is not over because the nuclear material “must be removed” from the country. (NTB)