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Step by step. Hard lesson learned from dependency on Russia's oil and gas will hopefully open people's eyes - you can't depend on the hostile regime, even if it
by piokoch 4y ago
Step by step. Hard lesson learned from dependency on Russia's oil and gas will hopefully open people's eyes - you can't depend on the hostile regime, even if it occasionally pretends to be a nice guy.
- kwanbix 4y agoI think the real lesson is you cannot depend on one single provider. Because even if today is really a friendly one, tomorrow it could become hostile.
- trasz 4y agoSo how is China hostile?
- yabatopia 4y agoJust ask the Taiwanese, Uyghurs and Tibetan people. To name a few.
- mrjin 4y agoNice list. Just a side question though, do you know where Xinjiang is on the map since you are so concerned about Uyghurs? I thought I knew where Xinjiang was until CNN told me it was in Guangdong province. https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/pjsyyv/cnn_once_changed_chinas_map_to_portray_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/pjsyyv/cnn_once_chang...
- siegfried-en 4y agoHas Chinese propaganda made it to hacker news?
- trasz 4y agoFunny how some people are so brainwashed they assume anything that doesn’t match their own state propaganda is somebody else’s propaganda, not a honest opinion.
- notacoward 4y agoYes. Many commenters on such topics - including at least one in this thread - even identify as members of the 50 Cent Army in their profiles.
- trasz 4y agoA couple of years ago I'd assume that someone who can't tell it's a joke wouldn't be able to create an account on HN, or - if they somehow succeeded - would die of suffocation by forgetting to breathe while writing a comment. Nowadays I'm not sure anymore, so I tend to add "/s" in all but most obvious cases, like this one.
- adampk 4y agoyes
- stiltzkin 4y agor/sino is a state Chinese propaganda sub.
- pauldenton 4y agoI know where Tibet is. I know that the Chinese Revolution succeeded in 1949, and Tibet was subsequently invaded in October of 1950. China also entered the Korean war in October of 1950 when 200,000 Chinese nationals crossed the Yalu river and repelled American soldiers.
- bovermyer 4y agoThe answer to that question could fill several books. Among more recent events are the human rights violations, the increasing saber-rattling about Taiwan, the increasing joint military exercises with Russia, and the mass addition of malware/spyware to chips meant for foreign markets. Rather than take my word for it, though, I encourage you to do some research on your own - preferably not entirely through Internet sources. In particular, the current issue of the World Affairs journal (volume 185, issue 3) has several relevant articles.
- pjmlp 4y ago"Between 2001 and 2005, CIA officers captured an estimated one hundred fifty people and transported them around the world.[12][13][14][15] Under the Bush administration, rendered persons were reported to have undergone torture by receiving countries. Journalists, civil and constitutional rights groups, and former detainees have alleged that this occurred with the knowledge or cooperation of the administrations of the United States and the United Kingdom." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20separate%20European,United%20Nations%20Convention%20Against%20Torture https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition#:~:t.... "A Wedding That Became a Funeral US Drone Attack on Marriage Procession in Yemen" https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/02/19/wedding-became-funeral/us-drone-attack-marriage-procession-yemen https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/02/19/wedding-became-funeral... "5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff." https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/ https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/ Plenty more where those came from, also enough to fill quite a few books.