Comment by omejanmar | Hacker News Reader

Comment by omejanmar | Hacker News Reader

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What don't you understand about China being evil? It has a dictator. It imprisons democracy protestors. It kills its leadership critics. It floods the ocean with plastics, and pollutes the air with no abandon. It acts like a crybaby whenever a free standing democratic Taiwan seeks to gain international acceptance. It acts like a bully against all of its neighbors with regards to south Asia sea. It gives its poor neighbors loans and then takes their national assets when they can't pay. It sends its fishermans around the world and depletes those sea life. It floods the world with shoddy products and destroys their community, jobs, and well beings. It steals technologies from other countries with forced tech transfers or espionages.

Etc etc etc

The NYT could give a rat's ass about Taiwan and SEA politics when it does not dovetail into their worldview.

China is complicit in much of what you say, but the great majority of Chinese will take that bargain, no questions asked. When China looked a little different, the NYT sang a different tune --perhaps they thought China could be "westernized" and coopted into their vision, but as that has not come to fruition and China cares about China and little else, they are coming down on it --not because they care about Chinese people (Chinese overwhelmingly approve of their leadership) but because they want to promulgate their vision of the world.

What don't you understand about the _______ being evil? It has a globe spanning empire a secret ruling organisation. It imprisons democracy protestors. It vannishes its leadership critics. It floods the atmosphere with C02, and wages war for ressources. It acts like a crybaby whenever a dictator trys to wriggle out of its totalitarian rule by building a nuke. It acts like a bully against all of its neighbors. It gives its poor neighbors trade agreements and then takes foreign citizens rights when they actually live democracy. It sends its data-fishermans around the world and buys up any meaningfull competition to silicon vally life. It floods the world with shoddy products and destroys their community, jobs, and well beings.

At least cheating allows to fullfill the diversity quota.

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