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• AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  stop issuing economic statistics

  Then what’s this?. I literally don’t know what you’re talking about.

  The trend is toward openness in China?

  Yes. China is progressively opening up, allowing things such as IShowSpeed to do livestreams of the country wherever he wants and granting him honorary visas, and spreading the contact of Chinese people with westerners through for example XiaoHongShu (RedNote) or TikTok, which is why the US wants to ban access to these apps. I’m not a US citizen either, I’m European, and the EU itself closed access to Russian media some months after the war started. You may or may not think that this is justified, but it’s quite literally the definition of “closing up”, and China is engaging in exactly the opposite.

  Those proxy wars are the example of it not getting hot

  I beg you tell the same to a Ukrainian or to a Vietnamese.

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Then what’s this

    Show me the youth unemployment figures.

    spreading the contact of Chinese people with westerners through for example XiaoHongShu (RedNote) or TikTok, which is why the US wants to ban access to these apps

    You missed the part where China hurried through a tiktok like curtain to silo users.

    You must have also missed the social credit scoring. The HK protests.

    You may or may not think that this is justified, but it’s quite literally the definition of “closing up”, and China is engaging in exactly the opposite.

    This is textbook tolerance paradox stuff, either accept propaganda or you ae against free speech. Oligarchical authoritarian cunts should not have access into a foreign population, that is why Trump is in power. Are you telling me the EU has less press freedoms than Russia or China? Because closing the gap doesnt mean much if its by a tenth of a degree.

    I beg you tell the same to a Ukrainian or to a Vietnamese

    Its clear you are passionate and refusing to take on board an alternative view. There is nothing in what I have said that should lead you to reply with this. Understand proxy wars and realise that military spending kept the direct warfare cold.

    Ukraine is atrocity that is only tied to the cold war by way of Russia continuing fighting it while the US got complacent and allowed their government to fall which lead to a lack of support/tacit support for Russia.

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    • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Show me the youth unemployment figures

      According to SCMP, “The urban jobless rate among those aged 16 to 24 – excluding students – fell to 15.8 per cent last month, down from 16.5 per cent in March, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday”. What’s your point? It literally says “released by the National Bureau of Statistics”, what’s the government hiding??

      You missed the part where China hurried through a tiktok like curtain to silo users.

      Can you source this claim, please?

      You must have also missed the social credit scoring

      This is a nothingburger made up by western bad-faith actors. There is no such thing as a social credit score in China. Unlike in the US, where you can go into your bank account to check your “good citizen meter” and see how likely you are to get a mortgage.

      The HK protests

      Nothing compared to ICE kidnapping people from their literal homes masked, putting them into unmarked vans, and deporting them without due process or putting them in prison.

      This is textbook tolerance paradox stuff, either accept propaganda or you ae against free speech

      So, China forbidding western media is oppressive and dictatorial because western press good, but the West forbidding Russian media is cool and based because Russian media bad? You’re only showing your bias here if you think western media has any semblance of objectivity, especially when it comes to international politics.

      Are you telling me the EU has less press freedoms than Russia or China?

      Not than Russia, Russia is further advanced towards fascism than the EU, so it’s worse. But China is getting better and the EU is getting worse.

      Its clear you are passionate and refusing to take on board an alternative view.

      It’s clear that you only care about deaths if they take place on the first world. You want to avoid “direct confrontation” because you care more about Europeans and Americans than you do about Vietnamese, Korean or Iraqi. You take pride in how much the “military expenditure in the cold war prevented direct conflict” without caring about how much more conflict it stoked outside the west.

      Ukraine is atrocity that is only tied to the cold war by way of Russia

      False. The invasion of Ukraine is a policy pursued by the Russian goverment as a way to preserve the sphere of influence that the west is eroding each day through NATO and economic/soft power. You can condemn it, it’s cruel and abhorrent, but it’s not exclusively Russia to blame, and in 10 years from now this will be clear to everyone.

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      • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        it’s not exclusively Russia to blame

        of course. the poor russia was forced to attack the neigbouring country. fuck off, troll.

        there is no such thing as “sphere of influence” you are entitled to. your country end at your borders.

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