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Because of the dominantly racist view prevailing in the US: if it is a Chinese company, it must somehow be bad, anti-democracy. If it comes from an American company, then it must be democratic and good (even when it does harm).

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I don't think it is a racist view. It is more of an anti-communist view. Americans were not a big fan white communists in Hungary, Poland, Russia, etc when the Soviet Union was a thing.

By creating artificial barriers against countries, the US is only strengthening totalitarian regimes. The US is doing a disservice to everyone with its crazy persecution to Russia, Iran and China.

Which has nothing to do with what I or the comment I was replying to was talking about. Its not racist to be anti-communist.

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It has nothing to do with race. China is bad because of the CCP. And the Chinese people suffer the most because of it. Remember in 1968 when the CCP encouraged the cultural revolution that lead to the death of millions of Chinese at the hands of the Red Guard? Or when the Red Guard literally cannibalized their fellow citizens as an ideological purity test? Same party is still in charge with similar goals, just a different leader.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi_Massacre

No, Chinese people will suffer if the US continue to inflame the tensions of cold war for its only financial benefit. The Chinese people would be far better in a world where they are viewed as equal, and freedom will spread when the US respects freedom of every people to participate of the global world. You cannot say that you defend freedom by creating barriers and inflaming wars across the world.

No, Chinese people will be free if the CCP is overthrown, and a popular form of government is established.

It is up to the Chinese people to do this. If a foreign country overthrows the Chinese government this is nothing more than an international crime against their sovereignty.

It's not going to happen without violence, as the PRC is strictly a one-party state.

I prefer to see the Chinese people living in peace, then.

Racism may play a part, but it has way more to do with a legitimate concern: the Chinese government's eagerness to exercise control over our cultural output. If it were Russia, the response would be the same.

If the Chinese government wants to censor media in their own country, fine. Obviously I don't support it on a personal level, but they can run their country how they see fit. But when a foreign entity tries to steer our artistic output, alter our films (e.g. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), or just remove some of our silly videos on a social video platform, it's absolutely reprehensible.

By that argument we should block all non-national apps or services and create national networks instead, since you are assuming everybody is fine with the US as a country imposing their views and values to every country.

I can see Middle Eastern countries getting offended by several things we are used to. In short, anything that is not Western would be difficult in that sense, but even among Western democracies, there are taxation issues for these services and different views on privacy.

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