The mass hysteria reflects the biases inherent in the world’s most powerful media outlets.
    • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Westerners? I’m foreign-born Chinese, and you couldn’t pay me to enter China. My anti-ccp sentiments combined with their sense of ownership of all Chinese people regardless of birth nation means I’m probably on a low priority list somewhere.

  • DaDaDrood@feddit.nl
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    9 months ago

    I read this ‘article’. There are zero references towards the so called ‘China Bashing’. If it is so rampant, how hard can it be to just link to a few mainstream offenders? It alludes towards a deliberate bashing, once again without any links or merit. I am fully aware that news is hardly unbiased but come on, this is ridiculous.

    • sludge@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      9 months ago

      like, just off the top of my head there’s that whole “spy balloon” thing.

      • cnnrduncan@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        9 months ago

        A Chinese corporation openly tested those spy balloons over my country a decade ago (allegedly just for monitoring livestock), why is it so unbelievable that they’d use a more polished version on their biggest geopolitical rival?

      • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        9 months ago

        That’s not a defense. Opinion pieces can be fine, but if you’re claiming that something is off the charts you should probably have some charts (or any points of data) to prove the claim.

        • zephyreks@lemmy.mlOP
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          9 months ago

          Then… Disprove it? If there’s such distinct evidence that counters the article, might as well use it in your argument lol

            • zephyreks@lemmy.mlOP
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              9 months ago

              Do I need to? I haven’t had a visceral reaction to the article.

              For what it’s worth, China’s affirmative action policies for minority groups put the US to shame. Significantly easier college admissions (despite using a standardized process), extremely generous business loans, proportional ethnic representation in government, vast infrastructure projects to bridge the salary gap, and celebrations of different cultures across the country. Not very capitalist of them, given that these infrastructure projects (while very beneficial to the endpoints) are not profitable.

              • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
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                9 months ago

                Nobody else has had a visceral reaction, we’ve just pointed out bad journalism 🙂 Using big negative words might make you feel better, but it doesn’t make them accurate. You’re using them to be dismissive of our points