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I don't think the Chinese accepted his apology!apart from being a china apologist, he seems like a decent lad
(I have no idea tbh)
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I don't think the Chinese accepted his apology!apart from being a china apologist, he seems like a decent lad
I don't think the Chinese accepted his apology!
(I have no idea tbh)
The Staggering Number Of Make-A-Wish Visits Granted By John Cena
The 16-time world champion also holds the title of most wishes ever granted on behalf of the charity organization.www.wrestlinginc.com
he's been doing them since 2004 so that's what, on average one every week and a half?
This is a bit of a read
We Shouldn’t Underestimate the Incredible Danger Posed by the Taiwan Crisis
The media isn’t conveying how serious the Taiwan situation is. China is willing to fight for the island — possibly with tactical nuclear weapons — and if war comes to the Taiwan Strait, the US has a high chance of losing.jacobin.com
Terry Gou: The Taiwan iPhone billionaire who wants to be president
The electronics billionaire has charisma and experience with China - but the opposition vote is divided.www.bbc.com
This is all upside down nowHe hasn't a hope. And it might just help the current party in power having so many soft-on-China candidates..
His longer game might be to unite the pro-China opposition.
steamrolled democracy in Hong Kong
Just showing what the dictatorship in Beijing will do to anyone that expresses an opinion they don't likejust to pick on this one point, among all the others — hong kong was never a democracy during the time of british colonial control. the very first election ever held in hong kong was in 1995, *after* the british had already agreed to hand over to the chinese. so they had 150 years of colonialism, and then three years of window-dressing electoralism, and then a handover.
the claim of hong kong as some sort of historical beacon of democracy is a fantasy, and a creation of western media. this is not to deny the very real protests of recent years, but — if you’re interested in actually understanding them, rather than simply instrumentalising them — it makes much more sense to view them as the actions of a privileged city relative to *other* chinese cities, which protested in order to try to maintain aspects of its privileged post-colonial position (which itself is effectively a historical contingency, due to having a deep harbour).
Just showing what the dictatorship in Beijing will do to anyone that expresses an opinion they don't like
And it's never pleasant
It's almost as if a population that only has access to a state-controlled narrative and propaganda will tend to align with that narrative. They don't even know Tiananmen Sq happened.
Ignorance is strength and all that.
I wonder what the satisfaction percentage is with the Uyghurs?
Did anyone ask Rahile Dawut?
Was Peng Shuai polled on how wonderful the government is?
Trick question, no one's allowed speak to them.
If you think the Chinese govt is wonderful, grand for you.
It's probably a great place to live if you play ball.
A literal horrorshow if you do what we are doing right now.
Search for Tiananmen Sq 1989 in China and see what results you get. Post about it and there's a knock on your door.dude you’re not making any sense... chinese people are wordly, literate, cosmopolitan people. this idea that they live in some kind of orwellian information vacuum is just nonsense. yes there are censors, yes there is interference. we know that, they know that. it’s not perfect. but they can also look at the whole fucking internet. just by way of example: I played a gig during lockdown times which was livestreamed to people in shanghai over zoom. they were hipsters with hilarious haircuts. they talked freely about whatever they wanted — including bitching about their own government. you’re just telling yourself a story here that is simply not backed up by reality.
Nah, I get it. And I don't mean to be confrontational either.also, I’m not trying to be confrontational here, sorry if I give that impression. but we get fed so much anti-china stuff that it seems sometimes like as if it acts as a kind of license to abandon reality. like maybe spend five minutes digging up some other perspectives on things some time. it’s really rewarding! it doesn’t turn you into a stalinist! I promise!
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