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Good. China is anti-democratic and a persistent threat to Western Democracies.

• dang 7y ago
  Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here, especially not ones that take threads further into political or national flamewars. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • mclightning 7y ago
    Interesting to see where YCombinator stands on this. I assume you are an official moderator on HN?
    • toxik 7y ago
      Correct, dang is a HN moderator. This is a tech news website, and obviously politics and technology do intermingle, but let's not make a sensitive situation worse by encouraging tribal thinking.
      • PavlovsCat 7y ago
        Being clear about and resistance against totalitarianism and isn't making it worse. That's old chestnut that gets trotted out a lot -- it just isn't true.
    • dang 7y ago
      I am, but that comment says nothing about "where Y Combinator stands" on anything except whether HN users should follow the HN guidelines. We stand for yes.