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The military propaganda at 9:30 was interesting. Showing Chinese people while saying "our adversaries". Has it ever been done so overtly before ?
by 4gotunameagain 4y ago
The military propaganda at 9:30 was interesting. Showing Chinese people while saying "our adversaries".
Has it ever been done so overtly before ?
- tjpnz 4y agoGiven that the Chinese military will spend weeks pouring over the footage it would be rude not to say hello.
- ChrisClark 4y agoIt's actually at 11:50. You managed to get me to watch the entire propaganda section that started at 9:30. Are you sure you're not part of it? ;)
- 4gotunameagain 4y agoyou are right, mea culpa :)
- fallingknife 4y agoGood. Call China what it is.
- tyho 4y agoA country with a impressive history of not declaring war on another state and who has drawn the ire of USA simply because they see it as credible economic competition?
- engineer_22 4y agoTo be fair, the Chinese society has seen it's share of war. Let's not also forget the Chinese are rapidly expanding their military. In the calculus of a command economy, what is the point of military spending, if not to use it?
- origin_path 4y agoThey've effectively declared war on Taiwan by now. Maybe not diplomatically but their president for life has been saying they'll take it through force, which amounts to the same thing.
- fallingknife 4y agoYou mean like when they totally didn't annex Tibet? Or when they didn't attack Vietnam in 1979?
- nozzlegear 4y agoJust a minor nitpick but I think the part you're referring to (actually at 11:50 in the video) is showing Chinese soldiers specifically, not just random Chinese civilians. I'd bet that there are few people in either the US or Chinese military who would disagree that the other side is an adversary right now, even if they're not at war.
- 4gotunameagain 4y agoDisagreeing with that and overtly saying it in a widely publicised video I think are very different things. One is pragmatic, the other aims to sow specific narratives in the mind of the viewers. The video is aimed at us, not at the Chinese
- engineer_22 4y agoWhy be on teams if there's nobody else to play against?
- sneak 4y agoI don’t think the people who defend the territory where ~90% of every Mac, iPhone, iPad, and many other products are created is an “adversary”, any more than the police in Cupertino are.
- slimginz 4y agoWow that almost plays out like a parody of itself. I was half expecting it to be revealed as one of those fake Saturday Night Live ads.
- CobrastanJorji 4y agoSpace exploration is, I hate to use the word "traditionally" here, but it has a history of being extremely nationalistic. We give astronauts from different countries their own different names. We put big flags on things. We fund space missions because it keeps us ahead of other countries. It's funded like a war because it's very nearly a wartime activity, except mostly it's used for good, almost by accident.
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