Understanding Post-Covid-19 China
Following the 2022/11/24 Urumqi fire in Xinjiang [XUAR}, China and subsequent zero-Covid protests in several Chinese cities (most notably that in Shanghai), Western MSM began to narrativize China’s expected “opening up” post-Covid-19. Given such media proliferation, it is vital to critically examine such content and the perspectives forwarded within such.
1. What to Know
This Western MSM discourse sought to (mis-)represent the fire and protests in favor of pro-US (and related Uygur separatist NGO) talking points so to advance US and related “Five-Eyes” intelligence alliances policies towards China, increasing centred on Australia’s role in the “Indo-Pacific”. These specified expanded economic cold war financial decoupling and containment of China, as had coomenced in relation to the “forced labor in Xinjiang” as methodologizing “genocide” (and “cultural genocide” narrative cemented during the propaganda blitz surrounding the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Praxysm GEOPOL was established following the 2022/11/24 Urumqi fire to chronicle the unfolding Western MSM narrativization and propagandization efforts further seeking to prevent China’s rise and destabilize China, especially in relation to continuing historically (and historiographically) revisionist Uygur NGO “genocide” and “cultural genocide” discourse.
2. Why Now? Why Praxysm?
The Western MSM discourse on post-Covid-19 China is evolving as you read this, in media res. Narrative strains are emerging which will determine how much of the Western world will subsequently view (and judge) post-Covid-19 China. Praxysm GEOPOL is specifically designed to deconstruct and critically analyze and reflect on this discursive narrativization process as it proceeds: i.e. as geo-political praxis. As such, Praxysm GEOPOL is also founded on auto-ethnographic authenticity.
3. Praxysm’s Qualifications
Praxysm GEOPOL is operated by a certified foreign expert currently living and working in China who began his career in Xinjiang [XUAR], working within the guidelines of then Ministry of Education [MOE] policy. He is a former SAR Research Fellow at Australia’s National Film & Sound Archive [NFSA] and a published non-fiction author for McFarland & Co. Inc. and Bloomsbury Academic. As a post-graduate qualified EFL education professional, he has extensive experience teaching discourse analysis in China/West Inter-Cultural Communication undergraduate and postgraduate tertiary learning environments, and within China’s private, corporate sector.
