This video is by Eric Hovagim an up and coming Tankie “reporter” and in his video he even unironically leans into China is just doing a “combatting terrorism”, just like the US gov does, amongs other things to justify chinas various human rights abuses.
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Propaganda can absolutely be true, it’s just that purpose of propaganda is to further an agenda, not promote truth.
Do note that I did say it can be “technically” true.
But it’s never the whole truth, because the whole truth is often mundane and uninteresting. The purpose of propaganda is to evoke an emotional response that pushes the observer towards supporting the agenda behind it.
And partial truth, while might be true, isn’t truth. In fact omission of contrary facts IS a lie, making the statement ultimately untrue.