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One has to be careful when pointing out problems in China, lest such criticism be confused with criticism of the Party's policies.
by grim_io 3mo ago
One has to be careful when pointing out problems in China, lest such criticism be confused with criticism of the Party's policies.
- iepathos 3mo agoThere is no war in Ba Sing Se
- throw101010 3mo agoIt's funny that you mention this because with the current US administration it works in a similar fashion... see Anthropic not cooperating with the US military and getting their new shiny model "paused" few weeks later (and officials like Hegseth being pretty open about it beforehand, signalling to them that criticizing the US admin/not cooperating will hurt their business: https://xcancel.com/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070 https://xcancel.com/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070 ) I'm not defending China at all, just noticing a detestable trend.
- jimbob45 3mo agoThis seems like when Indians were super excited about China having castes too. Then, it turned out that they were egregiously incomparable. US incumbent party criticism is nothing like CCP criticism.
- UltraSane 3mo agoIt is really sad how India doesn't try to be better but tries to prove China is just as bad.
- Waterluvian 3mo agoAnd it’s not even reading between the lines and being a conspiracy theorist. The current U.S. regime has made it abundantly clear that they will gladly operate in bad faith. Being rational and predictable is likely a more important quality than ideology now that the Americans are threatening everyone and forcing us all to pick sides.
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- UltraSane 3mo agoYes the Trump administration acts a lot like the CCP and it is despicable.