• Carl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 hours ago

    Okay Russia is understandable cuz they’re in a war, USA understandable cuz they’re saber rattling, but genuinely what is China doing besides minding their own business?

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      7 hours ago

      Buying ports and selling cars, generally speaking an economy war.

      • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        7 hours ago

        economy war is when the west voluntarily hands you all its production and then gets mad that someone somehow handed the production over. i guess.

        edit: the people actually waging economic war on you are your own god damned ruling class.

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        3 hours ago

        What are you talking about. What country doesn’t want to boost their economy???

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          3 hours ago

          Between an exchange of goods and services and flooding it by subventiontioning to suppress the competition is teensy tiny difference, no?

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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            3 hours ago

            This is called a “skill issue” on the hand of western imperialists that can’t compete. Stop framing doing better as being evil.

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                3 hours ago

                Evil is the invisible hand of the market fisting the ass of your country, who send their production to a foreign country, and then start crying because they get better after decades of doing what guys should have being doing all along.

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                  Oh no the Chinese are sending us good quality, cheap goods and letting us pay them with our dogshit overinflated currency. If only we were forced to buy plasticky shit at extortionate prices made by the USA (USA!! USA!!).

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      8 hours ago

      They are literally genociding part of their population to enforce a unique race

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        They aren’t? Not only is the idea of mass Uyghur slave labor atrocity propaganda akin to claiming that there’s “white genocide” in South Africa, Christian genocide in Nigeria, or that Hamas sexually assaulted babies in Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, but the PRC is an incredibly industrialized country and as such doesn’t have a need for slavery. Slavery in general is a horribly inefficient system fir anything other than agrarian production, which is why the Statesian North liberated the slaves in the south, for more wage-laboring industrial workers.

        In the case of Xinjiang, the area is crucial in the Belt and Road Initiative, so the west backed sepratist groups in order to destabilize the region. China responded with vocational programs and de-radicalization efforts, which the west then twisted into claims of “genocide.” Nevermind that the west responds to seperatism with mass violence, and thus re-education programs focused on rehabilitation are far more humane, the tool was used both for outright violence by the west into a useful narrative to feed its own citizens.

        The best and most comprehensive resource I have seen so far is Qiao Collective’s Xinjiang: A Resource and Report Compilation. Qiao Collective is explicitly pro-PRC, but this is an extremely comprehensive write-up of the entire background of the events, the timeline of reports, and real and fake claims.

        I also recommend reading the UN report and China’s response to it. These are the most relevant accusations and responses without delving into straight up fantasy like Adrian Zenz, professional propagandist for the Victims of Communism Foundation, does.

        Tourists do go to Xinjiang all the time as well. You can watch videos like this one on YouTube, though it obviously isn’t going to be a comprehensive view of a complex situation like this.