Anglophile Rupert Murdoch’s The Australian newspaper on Sept. 17 called on the Quad to pursue a coup against Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, RT reported prominently today in an article by Damian Wilson, which has been picked up by press worldwide. The article essentially repeated the demand for a coup against Xi put out by NATO’s Atlantic Council on Jan. 28, 2021, in a declaration called “The Longer Telegram: Toward an American China Strategy.” Thus it is striking that London’s Chatham House, also today, published a call to bring down Russia’s President Vladimir Putin using charges of vote fraud against his right-wing opponent Alexey Navalny’s supporters — also a pillar of the “Longer Telegram” strategy. (https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/09/russia-elections-may-tighten-putins-grip-repression )
RT’s story is headlined, “Overthrow Xi? Hostility towards China Is on the Rise, but the Aussies’ Extraordinary Demand for a Coup Is a Step Too Far.” Damian Wilson is a U.K. journalist, former editor for Fleet Street/City of London publications, financial industry consultant, and political communications special adviser in the U.K. and the EU. He asserts that anyone who has ever worked for the Murdoch press, as he has, knows “nothing big goes to print without the boss’s final okay, particularly where the political or business interests of his global media empire are concerned.” Therefore, Wilson argues, the article was published with Murdoch’s approval. (https://www.rt.com/op-ed/535461-xi-jinping-murdoch-coup-support/)
