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I've done a good deal of business internationally. A common experience in repressive regimes is the characterization of democratic discussion as whining.

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That's a debate tactic for authoritarians in the US as well.

This is doubtless true in many countries (see the current clusterfuck in the UK as a prime example). But it's still a valid point.

>That's a debate tactic for authoritarians in the US as well.

E.g. see the current Net Neutrality headlines and articles.

A common experience in repressive regimes is the characterization of democratic discussion as whining.

I see what you did there.

On a more serious note, yeah, all about following “the rules” now are we, Jack? But I don’t know why it’s being reported. “Yeah...well, you’re a whiny poopy butt!” doesn’t strike me as all that newsworthy.

Huh? What did he do? He called China a repressive regime? But it is.

Any world leaders you can think of that often characterize their opponents as whiny, with no other argument of substance? Often in 140 chars or less? That aren’t Chinese?

HN needs a spoiler tag.

China's public policy on dissidents is they are whiners/complainers, and they believe if they exile them then they will complain about the host country instead of China.

Actually now the Beijing gov does the opposite: put them into a secret jail and ask them to die there.

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