Def reasons for concern, especially considering the CCP is expanding their genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang in the face of tepid international response
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bassomitron@lemmy.world 10 months agoChina’s spying apparatus is on a whole other level. They’ve been using AI for years to “turbocharge” their domestic surveillance state; now they’re trying to take that capability global–with quite some initial success.
As a side note, I don’t understand why so many folks aren’t worried about another superpower replacing the US’s slowly waning stranglehold. Look at all the fucked up shit the US has done around the world, and that’s with a quasi-democratic government that at least has a modicum of domestic and international accountability. Now replace that with a totalitarian regime that virtually answers to no one. I mean, this is the same regime that has committed a genocide within just the last decade. Can you imagine what they’ll be capable of when they’re the main powerbroker that has no peers?
And no, this is not me wanting the US empire to remain in place. I’d prefer a transparent, egalitarian governing system across the globe.
Lynthe@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
The US was really awful on its watch. It’s really hard to imagine even China might do worse. There are no good custodians of the international community.
Grimy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s cynicism about the clear hypocrisy of the situation.
It’s the equivalent of your bully telling you to keep your money safe while pointing at an other bully. It’s a bit hard not to roll your eyes.
Land_Strider@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hey, to be fair the bully who is warning you to keep your lunch money safe from the other bully is the currently the USA. Immediate wrongdoing will always have a place, even in the face of likely worse wrongdoing that is set to be in the future.
And one thing also, for the upper comment: Drone striking a whole people, changing the strike type every decade, and carrying out genocide over a prolonged time does not make mass killings any better than a hands-on approach. One produces more reaction, fucks up generations completely, assimilates or annihilates whole cultures, the other is a swift solution in service of a fucked-up ethos. Neither is favorable in comparison.