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I'm sorry, but I believe this kind of fearmongering and hidden xenophobia is not welcome on Hacker News.

They are not talking about Chinese people. They are talking about the Chinese government which engages in slave labor and forced organ harvesting.

Chinese Communist Party has over 90 million people.

Would you be okay if I had dismissed some company outright because it is a "Lutheran asset", "Turkish asset" or "White American asset"?

90 million people is around 6% of the Chinese population. In Nazi Germany approximately 13% of the population were members of the party.

You think there is a moral equivalence to the CCP and Nazis? This is China you are talking about... the country that has shown no military aggression outside its borders.

Have people already forgotten about Tibet? They also did invade Vietnam.

Tibet was within Chinese borders... remember it was called “the Tibetan independence movement”?

Invasion of Vietnam was in response to Vietnamese aggression. But you are correct it was outside their (disputed) borders.

Looking forward to the part you convince me that event was morally equivalent to the nazis.

No. They were talking about Tencent. Then without evidence drew a line to CCP...

It is alleged that Tencent was formed with funding from the Ministry of State Security[0](Chinese equivalent of KGB). They make propaganda games for the CCP as well[1].

[0] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/23/china-tech-giants-proce...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-06/tencent-h...

And it’s alleged the internet was a department of defence project...

What do you think Call of Duty is? If not a patriotic “American is the best” propaganda piece.

That’s right because China, CCP, Xi, and Tencent are all the same thing.

How often do the Tencent board and CCP meet? Monthly? Or like a weekly catchup do you think?

You do realize that single digit percent ownership doesn't give them any access or control, right?

Wait what? Single digit ownership of a billion dollar company gives you a lot of access and control. Especially if it's something that the other 90% don't care about, but you do (eg. chinese politics).

No. It doesn’t. Unless they got a board seat as well.

I love the idea of a group of uniformed Chinese generals showing up at the annual shareholder meeting to demand Reddit do... wait what does the CCP want Reddit to do?

If they do, they're not very good at exercising that control. There is plenty of heavy (and heavily upvoted) criticism of the CCP all over Reddit.

Seemingly "small" investments were enough to strong-arm the NBA and Blizzard into punishing people speaking out for Hong Kong, so it appears it gives them enough.

It has nothing to do with their investment. It was because nbas market share in China is huge. I think you are upset with the NBA here, they chose profits over geopolitics.

What's the leverage?

Naively I would assume that the worst would be that when such a small investor sells his shares then everybody else has an opportunity to make a cheap offer.

What investment is being referred to here for the NBA? The NBA including individual players all defended China. Money being the reason.

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