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Cultural or ideological differences are never good reason to cut all communication. It will backfire(economically, psychologically) and you seem to refuse to ev
by rini17 9y ago
Cultural or ideological differences are never good reason to cut all communication. It will backfire(economically, psychologically) and you seem to refuse to even acknowledge this basic fact.
And I am not writing this as some disrespecting westerner, but as Eastern European. Having to figure out what is truth and what is propaganda in non-free-speech environment has severely morally stunted our nations, and I can't believe some "consensus culture" can avoid that.
- dis-sys 9y agoThe link and communication is always there and it is strong. I spent 12 years living/studying/working in the west, such experience is shared by millions of other Chinese in my generation. Most western media are freely accessible from China, e.g. BBC/CNN/Foxnews. Comparing today's China to eastern Europe back in the USSR days is not a good idea, e.g. did USSR encourage its youths to study in the west? China has been doing this in the last 39 years. It is also questionable whether the so called non-free-speech environment is the same here - not judging what people can/can not do in those old USSR days as I don't know anything about it, but you can openly criticise CCP in China as long as the criticism is not coordinated, I have been doing that for ages, never got into any trouble.