Especially the foreign services and the military of any country are being paid like lawyers are standardly paid: they're paid to make the case for their employer. They're 'mercenaries' wielding words not (merely) arms, who become the more effective to the extent that they can deceive themselves to believe the propaganda (or, in the military case, the justifiability of their killings) that they're selling to the public. Let's therefore look at some of these 'mercenaries', in a video about US policy toward China, so that we can tell, from their vocal inflections, and also from their facial expressions while they are saying blatantly false things, whether we think that they believe the lies that they are spouting, while they're spouting them to us.

In the video, which is titled «World War 3 Between America and China», appears a former US diplomat to China and to Taiwan, John J. Tkacik Jr., saying, at 9:55, that, «the real reason I think why America has a commitment to Taiwan is because Taiwan is a democracy».

How, then, can the US government 'justify' its longstanding alliance with the Saud family who are the dictators over – and who despotically claim to own – Saudi Arabia, and who champion head-chopping of any dissidents there (and who financed the 9/11 jihadists in the US)? And that's only one contrary example of our 'democracies'.

But that official's lie didn't stop there. He continued: «It is in fact the most vibrant and dynamic democracy in east Asia. And it's a democracy that came to fruition under the pressure of the US government primarily the Congress, after forty years of very tight authoritarian rule by a regime that came from mainland China».

He neatly avoided mentioning that, though «the real reason I think why America has a commitment to Taiwan is because Taiwan is a democracy», the US was equally allied with Taiwan back under the Chiang Kai-shek «regime» (as Tkacik himself called it), which stole from China «many national treasures and much of China's gold reserves and foreign currency reserves», as even the CIA-edited Wikipedia allows to be said there.

So, if 'democracy' is «the real reason» why America is «committed» to Taiwan, why was America committed to Taiwan during the dictatorial period, 1949-1996, before «the first direct presidential election» took place there?

Obviously, the official is lying.

Furthermore, he is attributing the dictatorial regime to the fact that it «came from mainland China». He's indirectly attributing its dictatorship to the communist Mao Zedong. But the reality is that Chiang, and the original US dictator there, Chen Yi, were enemies of Mao, not his allies, and that this is why the US is «committed» to Taiwan – notwithstanding that the US regime in Taiwan was long a dictatorship, which moreover had stolen so much from Mao's regime on the mainland. (And, even today, the US regime, which stole Taiwan from the Japanese regime, which had stolen it from the previous, royal, Chinese regime, refuses to allow today's Chinese government to negotiate a re-unification of Taiwan with the country of which it had always been a part, which is China.)

As even the Wikipedia article notes, Chen-Yi was set-up as being Taiwan's dictator by US forces, on 25 October 1945, when the island was freed from the Japanese regime, which was legendarily barbaric, and, «during this time [of Japanese rule], over 2,000 women were forced into sexual slavery for Imperial Japanese troops, now euphemistically called 'comfort women'». So, the US established a new fascist dictatorship, to replace the fascist dictatorship that had previously existed there.