I don’t really care about US data being siphoned by China (I won’t use it since I live in China and don’t want to promote its harvesting apps), but I think stupid Americans are naive to say “I don’t care if China knows everything about me”. I got rich off of dumb people, so I’m all for it…
Not right now, but I can see they want Taiwan like Russia wanted Ukraine 10 years ago. Their government is no better for civil rights than Russia despite being more functional.
The USA is definitely going more "Russia" than "China" for sure. Russia controls its population by stoking constant conflict and conspiracy. China just goes "my way or the highway" and it frankly works better because if you conform you can succeed.
We're partly responsible for it. China's grip on the global south can be partially attributed to our constant fucking with the global south. Are we *the* cause? No. But we've caused pretty much constant political and economic instability in that region, and China has shown up willing to play ball.
And to be clear, I do think their current trade relationship with the global south is unsustainable, no one is gonna stay in a trade agreement where they're exclusively the buyer, but they're capitalizing on a large vacuum caused by our unwillingness to work with governments we didn't help shape.
honestly having irl friends from China has done so much to wash away the culturally engrained biases ingrained by American media and education. I hope this app does the same for other people.
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[tape recorder click, me doing a bad falsetto impression] MORE LIKE PEE-ON
Can you believe that shit?