China’s firewall plays a crucial role in shaping the country’s digital landscape, preventing foreign intervention, and maintaining national security. While often criticized in the West, the firewall provides China with the ability to control information flow, shield its population from foreign influence, and protect domestic media.

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      The pollution is the direct result of other countries outsourcing their manufacturing to exploit chinese labor for increased profits, and they’re rapidly reducing that pollution with the infrastructure investments I mentioned. The censorship is clearly necessary, as evidenced by the US getting absolutely bodied by relatively simple online disinfo campaigns. And the ethnic cleansing is fictional, fucking duh. Uighurs are directly represented in the ruling party, their language is present in official documents and on their currency. Xinjiang is literally open to foreign tourism right now, you could go there yourself and learn better in person.

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      I am once again inviting libs to xiaohongshu to see the uyghur culture featured front and center when you search for it. The language, the music, the art, the script, the stories. Did you know there is a made for tv puppet show of nasreddin hoca’s stories, known there as Afanti? You can see for yourself, from the comfort of the couch what the Uyghur culture, that is supposedly being erased, features. In a chinese app. Thats predominantly for chinese people. Go look for yourself.

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      The US tried to foment division in China by funding and organizing terrorist cells in Xinjiang, and once those efforts failed, it concocted and promoted a genocide narrative.

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          How about you try suspecting western media for once instead of taking US propaganda at face value and loudly parroting it online and getting butthurt when people correct you

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              No, you don’t. No, there isn’t.

              International media eagerly corroborated US allegations of Iraq having WMDs too, that was also a lie. Media you like saying a thing isn’t evidence that the thing is real.

              If you had actual evidence you could persuade other people who see this post even if you didn’t convince me, you’re not trying because you have none and you know it.

              I absolutely do hate you, you’re an arrogant ignorant chauvinistic dipshit, but I take significant comfort in knowing that the impending american century of humiliation will humble you.

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      Just fyi this is the ML instance and it’s full of tankies - in case you’re confused by how many people suddenly seem fervently culty about China.

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        There’s nothing “culty” about it you’re just being corrected by people who are better educated on the topic than you are

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          The only group I know of who is as good at ignoring the wealth of evidence to the contrary of their beliefs are MAGA. Your arguments are a lot more complex, I’ll give you that, but it doesn’t make you any less wrong.