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This is major, high-level corruption! It's not. The CCP is not playing by the rules. It's not a recent thing. It's been going on for ages. Stop defending CCP c
by bassman9000 6y ago
This is major, high-level corruption!
It's not. The CCP is not playing by the rules. It's not a recent thing. It's been going on for ages. Stop defending CCP companies. We're not talking about EU, Japan, Indian, Australian, etc. companies. Stop conflating this with lack of freedom.
If you want to be mad at someone, be mad at the CCP and their absolute disdain for the rules by which everyone is playing.
We can't decide whether we're going to ban Huawei or not.
Of course we can. It's another CCP tool. We ban it. That's it.
This whole thing is just a huge, stinking, disorderly mess.
Only because you chose to make everything related to Trump a mess. Remove Trump from the equation, judge those companies for what they are: the leading edge in CCP cyberwarfare and espionage,
- fomine3 6y ago> Of course we can. It's another CCP tool. We ban it. That's it. This is how to conflict quickly.
- bassman9000 6y agoWe are at conflict already. It's not standard engagement. It's not even Cold War engagement (yet). But there's definitely a war being fought in some fronts. Propaganda and economy, among others. And Huawei/ZTE/TikTok are the tip of the spear. We may as wait for another 40 years till the CCP is prepared enough so no one can stop them.
- bassman9000 6y agoE.g. https://kprcradio.iheart.com/featured/the-pursuit-of-happiness/content/2020-08-11-tiktok-founder-pledged-to-promote-socialist-core-values-devotion-to-ccp/ https://kprcradio.iheart.com/featured/the-pursuit-of-happine... Zhang Yiming, the founder and CEO of Tik Tok's parent company, Bytedance, has pledged to use his company to promote "Socialist values" and support the Chinese communist party's "Ideology, political thinking, and deeds."