I don’t know what that means, can you elaborate?

The common factors of three cases I can see:

1.The lies were used to create hostility of public towards another country.

2.A lie was not considered as a lie at the time when the lie was presented.

3.Public don't remember the history and can be fooled again by media or government

Just my speculation. I'm not the author

> I don’t know what that means, can you elaborate?

A political move where some external country is portrayed as doing something against American interests, without any proof, only to serve a political agenda by lying to their own populace.

For example: Bombing American vessels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident

And the very famous George Bush lie and declaring war on Iraq: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WejYdT3Lof8

Once Iraq was destroyed, here is George Bush admitting he lied: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18M70UgmV40

Do you mean like a justification to massively pull a major industry out of China?