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Listen to the Sinica podcast. It covers China-related topics "without fear nor favor". You'll here politicians and experts talk about the increasing, and often
by dazsnow 5y ago
Listen to the Sinica podcast. It covers China-related topics "without fear nor favor". You'll here politicians and experts talk about the increasing, and often baseless, hostility of Western media over the past 5 years.
- thow-58d4e8b 5y agoTo add to that - putting aside the present state of Sino-US relations, our prior beliefs should reflect what academic work on lying in politics tells us (1): * lying in official diplomatic relationships between countries is rather rare * within countries, democratic leaders are much more likely to lie to their population than autocrats * countries with imperial ambitions and long-distance ventures lie more often than others * within great powers, the depiction of the rival great powers is especially lie-ridden In other words, for a person living in the US - it's likely that whatever US news sources tell you about China (or Russia) is mostly lies or exaggerations (1) https://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/international-deceit/ https://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/international-deceit/