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It would show that people in other countries are allowed to gather in sports events. There are currently large protests going on against covid measures, and for

• thinkingemote 4y ago
  do we know what the Party line is about this? Do they, for example, blame western propaganda, involvement etc?
  • Fragoel2 4y ago
    A whole lot of covid outbreaks in China have been blamed on "contaminated goods" coming from abroad
    • bitxbitxbitcoin 4y ago
      Full circle to 2020 when people were avoiding boxes from China like the plague.
      • SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
        > like the plague This is the closest to the literal use of this phrase we've had in over a century.
  • rjzzleep 4y ago
    We don't really know much at all. Comment from CNBC: "It was not immediately clear whether the protests reached a meaningful scale in a country of 1.4 billion people, or whether a wide demographic participated" I've seen pro government social media commentators say that the second half of the Foxconn worker statement was not reported by western media, but I won't pretend I know one way or the other. Given that just yesterday a Japanese person tried to lecture me about how snorkels might have been banned in swimming pools because someone probably died and that they are probably dangerous, I'd say east Asians anxiety level is different from ours. EDIT: funny to see people to get so upset. But anyone who has spent Covid in east Asia knows that they have had an extremely different approach to the Europeans all over the board and that in a lot of countries over there people are still deeply fearful of Covid. And while Taiwan has been bashing China's approach they still wear their masks everywhere and still have a somewhat lax but existent quarantine procedure. You cannot have a serious conversation about a topic based on the information provided solely from one side no matter how much you distrust the other.
    • disantlor 4y ago
      So you saw one comment about the situation in China, spoke to a Japanese man about an unrelated topic, and now have an opinion on East Asians?
      • tiahura 4y ago
        He probably forgot to mention that he also spoke to a Korean guy about fans.
    • ehvatum 4y ago
      > Given that just yesterday a Japanese person tried to lecture me about how snorkels Makes perfect sense. My brother used to SCUBA dive, and he’s Norwegian, like me, which is Northern European which includes Sweden, so we can draw a lot of conclusions about COVID response validity based on this, with regard to race.
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  • philliphaydon 4y ago
    Everything get's blamed on the west. I was just reading on facebook about the lockdowns and even the replies are blaming the US for covid and so its the US fault that China has lockdowns.
    • tartoran 4y ago
      It’s mental gymnastics to blame the west on locking down large swaths of people and not allow them or bring them food and other necessities. It seems to me Chinese people are quite patient but even that starts running thin after a while. These 0 covid policies seem absolutely idiotic while at the same time I doubt Xi is that stupid and not following other personal agenda.
      • mensetmanusman 4y ago
        Everyone is stupid at some things (and usually capable in other areas). It’s entirely possible that Xi’s ideology-induced blindness in combination with being surrounded by yes-men make him an incredibly stupid leader in these circumstances.
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