In the last 10 years the US has been really ramping up it's propaganda against China, it's amazing to see. Especially since when I was growing up the `evil doers` were the Arab people.
Yeah, China spies with TikTok, the US spies with Instagram, Facebook email providers, telephone records.
It's all shite.
Don't elect politicians who agree with espionage and then complain that other countries are doing the same.
Because they don't support free speech or opposing positions and have never pretended to, whereas we believe that truth will set you free and sunlight is the best disinfectant?
Facts != propaganda. I'm not even going to bother giving you detailed examples. Xi is a bad person and has done a lot of bad things over the past decade.
Are you suggesting that it is a wise idea for a country to cease espionage? Wouldn't that just severely disadvantage that country and only benefit protentional enemy nations? Makes me think "Everyone else is cheating on the test and it will be graded on a curve, but I refuse to cheat" at which point you fail the test. Only the test in this case has an extremely high cost if failed.
No I actually think the CCP is a lot less harmful than the CIA. So many people died because of American imperialism, it's not even funny.
Most countries in the Latin America have seen democratic governments being overthrown by coupes backed by the US with CIA help. The CCP doesn't do this.
you're seriously going to ignore what Facebook and Cambridge Analytica was able to accomplish within our own borders to divide our country. Fox news, etc.. are all propaganda tools.
Almost every comment of yours is "but what about..." while completely ignoring and brushing off the issues of the CCP. The brutality and deaths involved in the last 70 years of their rule. The reeducation camps, the routine murder of dissidents, the refusal of foreign aid during famines which led to millions of deaths, the continued stripping of citizen rights and property, etc...
Not that they should have to accept the atrocities under US expansion, but the fact is it's a conversation, public knowledge, and something they can vote on whereas the CCP represses information, votes, and resorts to rapes and organ[2] harvesting of ethnic groups it doesn't care for.
Can you help me understand why it's of poor taste? I am fully claiming that terrible things happened to the First Nations of the Americas... (ie not denying).
Modern native american issues really aren't part of the national conversation or public knowledge. Missing and murdered indigenous women is an ongoing problem that persists today, with little attention. Our country has only in the past decade started coming to terms with the fact that Columbus was a rapist and a slaver - still has the national holiday.
There are many terrible things that our government has done to indigenous people in the past that are still painful (in addition to the things that are still happening), and it feels in poor taste for someone outside their community to say what they should think "if they have any sense".
Ok thanks for sharing. I simply meant that in my mind the distance between CCP and US government is so far that one seems like an obvious relative improvement. Improvement does not imply perfection or even being on the positive half of the number line/continuum.
That was the part I was trying to communicate, and please for give the hyperbolic presentation.
Yeah, China spies with TikTok, the US spies with Instagram, Facebook email providers, telephone records.
It's all shite.
Don't elect politicians who agree with espionage and then complain that other countries are doing the same.