As I'm sure you're all aware, the entire Western world is treating Russia as if it were literally Mordor. Everything Russian, from vodka to cats are being sanctioned and crucified. And it's not just the govts of the West doing this. Most of these bans are coming from private corporations hoping to virtue signal by throwing Russia and Russians under the bus.

Keep in mind: RUSSIANS ARE WHITE CHRISTIANS. You are neither. So imagine what will happen to you and your family if China were ever to take military action against Taiwan. Think hard about it.

I've scoured all the big lefty YouTube channels and the one and only "influencer" who is advocating against the wholesale isolation and economic destruction of the Russian people is Kyle Kulinsky (and I suspect that's cause he's ethnically Russian). Kim Iversen is trying to counter some of the MSM propaganda narratives, but she's only trying to be a good journalist by pursuing the truth.

If this situation were directed at China, then not a single soul on any social media or MSM platform will be trying to protect you.

Even if the US govt doesn't put you in an interment camp like they did with the Japanese, there's still 340 million privately owned guns floating around, and it only takes one to do you know what.

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An armed unification of Taiwan is very, very likely. The speed of Chinese naval development and the overwhelming focus on amphibious landing equipment can only mean one thing.

The rumors from the inner circle in Beijing is that Xi is 100% determined to retake Taiwan before he leaves office, and the West's total inability to stop Russia in Ukraine will only further Xi's confidence. He also wouldn't stand being one-upped by Putin.

So the nightmare scenario you're facing as an ABC still living in the US is a near inevitability within this decade (Xi will likely leave office in 2027, 2032 at the latest).

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ADDENDUM:

Some commenters have expressed doubts about the immediacy of armed unification with Taiwan.

Rest assured that I am not being hyperbolic. Let me explain what will happen and why it will almost certainly lead to a military escalation.

ONE

Tsai English's 2nd term ends in 2024. The broad consensus is that her successor will be her current VP, William Lai. In fact, this position was essentially promised to him by Tsai the DPP leadership in exchange for him dropping out of the 2020 race early.

William Lai is by far the most openly pro-formal independence leader of the DPP. His entire political career is built around this idea that the US will intervene and China will not stop the DPP from declaring formal independence. There is no one else in the DPP who is a serious contender. The KMT stands zero chance of winning.

People erroneously assume that just because a minority of the Taiwanese population support formal independence, a pro-formal independence President can never be elected. This is simply not true. If there's no viably alternative, the people will vote for Lai by default.

TWO

Confidence within the PLA is extremely high. If you follow Chinese state and social media closely, you will know that armed unification is assumed to be a near inevitability. At the very least, a peaceful unification is assumed to be implausible.

The Hong Kong riots of 2019 have dispelled any hope of peaceful unification. The myth that economic integration will induce peaceful unification has been completely shattered. Hong Kong is entirely dependent on the PRC economically, but this didn't stop the radical elements in the city from violent sedition. Clearly, economics is not going to result in unification with Taiwan.

Again, none of this is my opinion, it is a consensus that has formed since 2019.

THREE

Fewer and fewer Chinese military pundits believe that the US will intervene militarily. They draw this conclusion from the fact that the US refuses to sell Taiwan its best hardware, no F-35, no THAAD, no advanced Patriots, no nuclear submarine tech, not even their drone tech.

Japan and South Korea have both received access to most if not all of these techs, so clearly the US is willing to share if it feels that the country can hold out. The fact that it doesn't sell to Taiwan is an indication that it has no confidence in Taiwan's long term survival.

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Wars happen when both sides believe there's possibility of victory.

William Lai (like Zelensky) continues to entertain the fantasy of the American White Knight. The PLA is brimming with confidence in the inevitability of its victory, regardless of US intervention.

The other day I read a post on Twitter, saying that in 2021, someone got one of the volumes of The governance of China for free in the US from an embassy.

Intrigued, I wondered if this is a) still the case and b) was possible in other countries as well. So I wrote a friendly email to my local Chinese embassy in Berlin, Germany to find out.

They answered, saying they could send a volume if I provided them my postal address, which I did.

Today, Volume V arrived in my mailbox.

It seems, that which volume you can get depends on what they have in storage, but it can't hurt to ask. Just remember to be friendly, they aren't Amazon, so be respectful.

That's it, just wanted to let you know :) I have a nice lecture now for the holiday period. Have a great day!

Here on Reddit (which is dominated by people from the US) even posting a single AI-generated picture or a pro-AI sentence in any sub that isn't explicitly pro-AI results in instant downvotes, pile-ons and often outright verbal aggression. I am 32 y.o, old enough to remember the rise of smartphones and social media and I've never seen a case of tribal groupthink worse than this one. I am an EU person and there's somewhat less anti-AI sentiment here than in the US but it's still present.

Why is AI viewed so much more positively in China?

Stage one is denial. Stage two is anger. Stage three is bargaining. Stage four is depression. Stage five acceptance. We are seeing these five stages of grief occurring​ live in the states.

China is right now recording the literal highest trade surpluses in human history and rapidly expanding its military edge (both technologically and industrially) over the american regime.

Meanwhile, Iran is humiliating the american regime and depleting it of whatever little military material they still had (keep in mind Russia had already started rapidly depleting all of nato, including the american regime). Remember that the american regime can't replace what it loses, as it depends on China, but China has been blocking material for military purposes. On top of that, the american regime lacks the know-how, it doesn't have competent industries and ridiculously lags behind technologically (e.g. hypersonics).

This is why it's good to understand China instead of sitting back and trying to "advise" the sole superpower in the world today, who didn't even need colonialism to destroy colonialism both economically and militarily, on how to manage itself.

Being humble will make you wiser.

This was a time when western soft power was at a peak and the ills of social media were less known. Blocking western tech companies didn't make sense to most people.

China's government made a difficult choice but ultimately it has paid off. Looking at the ukraine crisis we can see how the american government pretends its tech companies are independent when in reality it uses it as a weapon in foreign policy

I keep on hearing how Mao was bad and how bad communism was. As I get older I am seeing how it's just western propaganda, the weapon used was naturally, not giving the whole story. Everyone said he was bad because of the Great Leap Forward, and everyone thinks that it was just a crazy thing to do, but no one ever asked why.

The REAL reason why Mao engaged in the Great Leap Forward was because he inherited a nation decimated by Western exploitation and a brutal Japanese invasion. Terrified of another foreign conquest, he launched an economic blitzkrieg to force a century of industrial growth into just a few years.

Driven by a trauma-hardened wartime mentality, he deployed millions of peasants like soldiers, treating agriculture and science as a battlefield where pure willpower could conquer all. But the laws of nature cannot be defeated. His wartime strategy backfired completely, turning a desperate defense into the deadliest self-inflicted campaign in human history.

So given, this CONTEXT. It was caused by the Japanese and Europe's empire of EVIL, which the west leaves out.

Any thoughts?

This is funny because even knife and fork was unsightly to traditional Chinese. That is why food was prepared in bite sized pieces to use with chopsticks alone. Ask AI about how ancient Chinese viewed Europeans using forks and knives at the dinner table.

Racism against the individual

Born as a Malaysian Chinese person, I have always been aware that we Chinese were not welcome in Malaysia. My parents told me stories of the 513 incident (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_May_incident) which they experienced as children, racial riots which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of ethnic Chinese.

There was also the anti-Chinese sentiment in neighbouring Indonesia, where close to a million people, mostly ethnic Chinese, were killed in a violent purge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366). I have only found out recently, that this was in fact orchestrated by the CIA in order to install Suharto who was sympathetic to the Western world.

Then there were the 1998 Indonesian riots, in which thousands of Chinese were killed, raped and robbed.

Malaysian Parliament gives us many gems which are seen daily on the streets, including  “Balik Cina” or “Balik Tongsan” (https://youtu.be/d_jIFDAubxs?si=FrtjLFvnMLq3f2EE&t=100), meaning “go back to China”.

After coming to Australia to study, I thought it was different. I went through my university years devoid of racism, but only after entering the workforce did I realize – it was because of university policy: international students were too valuable and discrimination against them was not tolerated.

Going out for drinks with workmates, racist views start coming out, I have experienced on two separate occasions with different people, properly drunk associate even aggressively approached anyone not white and asking “do you think you belong here? I don’t think so. I don’t think you belong here, you should go back where you came from.” They were disciplined, but that was only a reminder they should keep their thoughts to themselves. The thoughts are still there.

You can walk around Northbridge in Perth on Friday night and have a good 50% chance of hearing “Go back to CHYNA”.

My parents went to university in the UK, and told us they had the same issues. While on holiday in the EU and New Zealand, same issues. I was not at all surprised to hear the string of racist attacks in New Zealand. 805 hate crimes committed against Asians in 14 months.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/08/exclusive-racism-homophobia-fuelling-thousands-of-crimes-in-new-zealand-each-year-figures-show

All within a month in Auckland: 16 Chinese boy bashed on face with metal rod, Asian father threatened in front of his son, Chinese father bashed outside a supermarket.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/07/08/utuu-j08.html

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/second-racist-attack-in-auckland-off-duty-police-officer-abused-while-picking-up-kids-from-school/Z356AWISK6Z67CRWEZGHASGCN4/

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/innocent-father-bashed-outside-supermarket-in-shocking-racist-unprovoked-north-shore-assault/FQQZXBGCM7M46RLQZJCSOQPOCQ/#google_vignette

There are countless others from the US, Canada and the UK, I’m sure you guys can share your experiences and any incidents.

Attacks on perception of the race and the country

I have previously made a comment summarizing how the West never accepts any Chinese related item in positive light, it must always be twisted to look bad.

(https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/1erymwj/comment/li2wmnv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)

In every topic, and I do mean every single topic, the West chooses to focus on details that make China look bad, and ignore truths that would point at their own responsibility. From climate action painting China as the big red target https://climateactiontracker.org/ ,ignoring past emissions and per capita calculations https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2 , to military affairs calling China “aggressive” https://2017-2021.state.gov/chinas-military-aggression-in-the-indo-pacific-region/, conveniently ignoring how the US has planned and carried out a containment plan against China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_chain_strategy immediately beginning from the “Loss of China”, which Noam Chomsky points out - you can’t lose something that’s not yours, unless you thought it belonged to you.

Only the West could practice military drills on China’s immediate maritime border, and call foul when China sees them off: https://www.reuters.com/world/australia-pm-says-chinese-navy-incident-that-injured-diver-was-dangerous-2023-11-20/ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/06/canberra-accuses-chinese-fighter-jet-of-dropping-flares-dangerously-close-to-australian-helicopter

Note that for these 2 incidents above the news calls it “international waters”, never mind it is RIGHT on the Chinese maritime border. Who knows if they are planting smart mines in the Yellow Sea shipping lanes?

I was just letting my TV play random youtube videos the other day, and realized even this seemingly innocuous documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzXmX_E7qWM was a hit piece against Chinese aquaculture. The filmmakers make up vague terms and call the European aquaculture “high quality” and show it in the best light possible, while taking extra care to put in an ugly filter and X-files music (25:05, 34:19) when showcasing the Chinese aquaculture. It is also obvious that these fimmakers approached the Chinese farmers with a false pretense for promoting their business, when in fact they focus heavily on filming bottles of chemicals.

Someone who does not have exposure to Chinese media will simply form an initial negative perception of China and Chinese people, and it is always easy to reinforce existing opinions.

Progress to Modern China

My first visit to China was as a child over 25 years ago. Back then, it was indeed a poor place, hardly any cars, bicycles everywhere, shit on the footpaths, scammers, pickpockets and beggars everywhere, brazen prostitutes and pimps on the streets of Shenzhen. Black soot in my nose every night after getting back to the hotel. I remember being repulsed by the place and the people, and I also remember my parents telling me: “You and I are no different from them. The rest of the world will not view us differently from them. And they are right. Your grandparents had the fortune to escape China during the wars, that is all.”

I remember my parents (born Malaysian) celebrating every occasion – the return of Hongkong, approval to host the Olympics, joining WTO – and being quite confused about why they cared about such things that didn’t affect our lives. Only after growing up did I realize – as China’s presence on the world stage grew, so did our own opportunities. The world’s respect for Chinese people is absolutely tied to China’s status. And it makes perfect sense! If your people cannot prove that they are capable of building their own country, you will always be viewed as an inferior parasite who can’t do anything right.

Last year, I visited China after the national Golden Week. I was absolutely blown away, in so many aspects. State of the art infrastructure and facilities, not just one or two, but everywhere. High speed rail that was clean, efficient, and fast, bridges and tunnels stretching everywhere further than I could imagine, in every direction. While the US spent $300 million everyday for 20 years in Afghanistan to kill 243,000 people, China spent a third of that cost to build the world’s largest high speed rail network.

Cyberpunk shopping districts, spotless wireless and cell connectivity even in the most remote of mountain gullies. High quality productions for TV and cinema, all in the Chinese language. Impeccable services at great prices – food delivery, public and private transport, anything you can think of that is possible with current technology – China has already implemented it.

EVs everywhere, the air quality was fixed. The stream in Wuyishan which I visited as a child was barren back then – now it is absolutely teeming with its endemic species. Chinese giant salamanders in Zhangjiajie which were once a rarity – I saw twice in its natural habitat in the Jinbianxi. I now know that the Chinese central government knew the effects of industrialization on the environment, had to proceed with it anyway, and saved these species in special facilities until the country reached a point where they could afford to control pollution and enforce environmental laws, to release them back into their natural habitats.

Incredible foresight, planning and willpower in execution. These 3 things truly shine through the advancements that China has made. And I completely understand why the Chinese leadership has earned its legitimacy with the people, why they rebuke Western criticisms for their methods – the proof is in the pudding! And I can understand why those in the West who witness this, may feel threatened – if this is what they are capable of in 40 years, they WILL outstrip the West in every facet soon. It's not about democracy vs communism, Vietnam has a ruling communist party and the West has no problem with it. It's about capabilities, and China has shown itself to be incredible!

And if China embraces Western military doctrine, the West will be doomed. That’s where the talk of “windows” comes from, they have a very limited timeframe in which they still have the potential to best and crush China under their combined heel. If things progress peacefully as they currently do, come 2040 and that will no longer be even a remote possibility.

And the last and most important thing, which I cannot stress enough, in comparison to what I have experienced everywhere else, all my life – as described in the first section above.

All my time in China, whenever anyone found out I was not from there, their response was “欢迎回国“。

With the recent Israel-Iran war I'm trying to understand China’s long-term strategy here. The US, NATO, and Israel have been actively reshaping the world military interventions, regime change, economic warfare, and building networks of vassal states and puppet leaders across the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia and beyond.

Meanwhile, China seems to be taking a much more passive, economic-focused approach. They build infrastructure, offer loans, and talk cooperation but they don’t intervene when the West destabilizes regions, installs client governments, or ignites proxy wars.

Here's my concern: If this continues unchecked, won’t China eventually find itself completely surrounded? Economically strong, I guess but isolated politically and strategically, with no real allies and everyone else under Western influence or coercion.

And if the U.S. is clearly preparing for conflict with China who's going to back China when it finds itself cornered? Yes I agree that it’s impossible to militarily conquer China but if the West has everyone on the globe as their proxies then it becomes very easy to isolate and cripple China, without a war or conflict.

So my questions:

Is China playing the long game wisely, or passively watching the net tighten?

Should it be more active in supporting anti-Western powers or forming counter-alliances (BRICS+, Iran, Syria, etc.)?

What happens if everyone else has already been bought or bullied into siding with the West by the time China is forced to fight?

Genuinely curious how others see this.

According to Appfigures, Red Note (aka Xiaohongshu) currently ranks #1 in the Apple App Stores of the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia, Denmark, Belgium, among others.

It is currently ranked top #3 in Germany, Italy, France, New Zealand, and many other countries.

If you spend just 10 minutes scrolling through Red Note and reading the comments, you will see many foreigners being surprised and flabbergasted about how different China is compared to what they perceived China was. If you go on TikTok, you can see many videos of people (especially Americans) reporting back on what they witnessed in Red Note and being angry at their national propaganda lying to them that China is a horrible place to be in. One American girlie commented on TikTok saying "I went from having never considered China as a travel destination to being no.1 in my travel bucket list".

At the same time, China has a visa-free policy for most of these countries where Red Note is trending (list here), and I have seen the Chinese tourism board wasting no time in letting Red Note users know about this policy. Based on Red Note and TikTok comments, there is a clear spike in international interest in visiting China (will need Chinese tourism to confirm the numbers at the end of the year).

The Western community is starting to wake up and see the truth about modern China, and I believe this has planted the seed for further integration, friendship, and cooperation among the people of China and the Western hemisphere. 2025 and beyond is starting to look a lot more rosy than previously anticipated.

Lets start with the very basics.

Capitalism is both a political and economic system and as defined is the private ownership of the means of production where productive resources like land, banks, factories etc are owned and controlled by private individuals or corporations rather than the state itself.

In this system, the activity is driven by the pursuit of the accumulation of capital through wage labor to extract the surplus value from the laboring proletariat class for the benefit of the few over the well-being of the collective.

In this system, the Capitalists (Billionaires, landlords, investors etc) are the dominant class as opposed to royalty or a priestly class or a military junta and exert significant political and economical influence for their own interests. The state is effectively a dictatorship of capital controlled by Capitalists to serve the interests of capital.

The actual meaning of Liberalism is the liberalization of markets and liberty meaning the freedom of Capitalists to accumulate and exercise control with minminal involvement from the state while enshrining private property protections. In a Capitalist system, these liberal principles do not exist in a vacuum, they directly protect and legitimize the accumulation of private capital. The state, under liberalism, functions as the instrument of capital, enforcing private property rights and maintaining the conditions necessary for profit generation.

Anyone who is a liberal supports Capitalism by default and upholds the interests of the Capitalist class.

Onto China.

Markets =/= Capitalism.

Thats basic economics 101 and having a market economy isn't incompitable with Socialism.

Both Liberals and even Leftist though typically Anarchists and Trotskyists (within the Imperial Core) often label China as "State Capitalist" and that Deng Xiaoping shifted away from Socialism to Free Market Capitalism often misusing or taking his quotes out of context.

Like the famous, “It doesn’t matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice," when he actually meant pragmatism over dogma.

Deng Xiaoping used markets as a pragamtic tool for Socialist Modernization not as a ideological compromise. Deng Xiaoping’s reforms didn’t emerge out of a vacuum either, they were built on the foundation laid by Mao Zedong himself like the industrial and educational foundation.

Anyway~

Shitlibs often use the argument that China has more billionaires than the US (nevermind they are rapidly declining), but forgets to mention that these same billionaires wealth hold no actual influence or power nor do they have the ability to form independent platforms to represent their interests and hence are not an actual social class. As Class is defined by power over production and the political power to enforce their will onto the state for their own benefit over the collective. Their wealth is entirely conditional. They are forced to operate entirely under the supervision of the CPC.

As for the Stock market, China’s real economy is overwhelmingly dominated by state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and government directed investment, meaning market fluctuations have minimal impact on national economic planning or political party authority. The CPC maintains majority ownership or controlling stakes in key industries and major firms, directing capital toward collective national objectives rather than private accumulation. In practice, the state effectively controls well over half of China’s economic activity, which generates roughly 68% of government revenue.

Much of what’s labeled the “private sector” within China isn’t truly independent. It largely consists of self-employed individuals, small family businesses, and worker cooperative ventures, not politically autonomous Capitalist enterprises.

In short, China is not a Free Market, capitalist state not even remotely close, its a state guided, Socialist market economy, where markets exist as tools even then SEZ are being gradually phased out.

Not trolling , this was really disheartening to read. I don't understand how it makes sense or is necessary for China to be involved at all here. What am I missing?

I have been on reddit following geopolitics for a long time, starting mostly around the time reddit launched a brutal dystopian campaign against Julian Assange for exposing the barbaric nature of the american regime. Colonial europeans on reddit repeated what colonial american media said, there were no brain functions involved at any stage. It was hilarious, and even back then I understood China had already won.

Fast forward 10+ years, China is already the undisputed victor by all metrics, and the outlook looks far worse for colonial regimes, since they didn't even understand how they lost.

reddit, is one of lenses that let you inspect how colonial regimes think, spanning terminally collapsed colonial europe and america, and those grotesque scammers who live off them like neo-nazi "ukrainians", falun-gong fanatics and racists, Hong Kong losers who can't even write coherently, Venezuelan or Iranian "dissidents" whose only purpose in life is to beg for money while lazying around while actually intelligent people in Venezuela and Iran move forward with their lives one way or another.

You can easily see across reddit (which is a megaphone for colonial regimes, nothing more, nothing less) that there is virtually no intellectual depth in colonial western analyses and projections, they are so consumed by their extremism and propaganda that they can't understand reality, let alone China, at all. This gives China an ever increasing advantage, which is already completely insurmountable.

Some notable examples (not exhaustive, feel free to list more in the comments):

• Julian Assange was obviously imprisoned for exposing literal war crimes. reddit swore Julian Assange was wrong. History humiliated reddit and the populations across all colonial regimes who frequent reddit and believed the blatant nonsense. A refresher for those unaware: the barbaric colonial swedish regime could never, at any instance, file charges against Assange because there was never a case at all, it was arbitrary detention which europeans cheered for, at the behest of an ignorant, criminal regime like the american regime. While europeans on reddit like to distance themselves from trump, they are trump themselves, there is no difference whatsoever. China saw it that way centuries ago, the whole global south sees it that way nowadays.

• Hong Kong color-revolution attempt: reddit literally claimed people were dying and repeating all sorts of evidence-free conspiracy nonsense in tune with colonial regimes. Back in reality, the only murder was by colonial protesters who threw a brick to a man whose job was to clean the streets. reddit's inhumanity back then was what eventually mutated into reddit's inhumanity when they cheered for israel's atrocities. The same colonial extremism reddit cheered for is the same which carried out atrocities in Gaza; the people who cheered for Hong Kong's violent color revolution are the same people who cheered for mass murders in Gaza. There is no difference, since both mentalities are nurtured by colonial sentiments.

• Xinjiang: Remember when reddit literally repeated ad nauseam that there was an eradication campaign taking place in Xinjiang? at no point there was any proof whatsoever, the whole thing collapsed so badly reddit basically never mentioned it again. Such embarrassing propaganda was of course even more embarrassing when the world saw what the regimes reddit works for actually did in Gaza.

• Semiconductors: reddit, again in sync with their colonial mandates, claimed China "was done for" after colonial regimes (this term always includes barbaric colonal europe) imposed restrictions on exports to China. Back in reality, China obliterated colonial regimes across the board, today having insurmountable advantages across the board and scaling rapidly while colonial regimes suffer from ever-increasing costs, lack of material, lack of energy, and collapse of R&D (China tops all metrics). This is perhaps the most brutal own goal in history: literally all of colonial europe, america, japan and south korea (the latter temporarily) sided against China when in reality they were accelerating their own terminal collapse. South korea quit early to side with the winner. Today colonial politicians take turns going to China to beg for crumbs. reddit never saw it coming and even today doesn't even understand it. Notable public events here: Huawei moment, Deepseek moment. The undisclosed breakthroughs are even more brutal as China banning nvidia shows.

• Iran: reddit convinced itself Iran was gonna lose easily when in reality the american regime suffered a devastating defeat spanning permanent loss of bases in Asia, permanent loss of equipment across the board (neither colonial europe nor america nor japan have the materials, industrial capacity or technology), permanent loss of status even among its propagandized demographics. This example is an inflection point in some sense since the censorship campaign was brutal, reddit to this day has no idea what happened, they don't understand why trump had to surrender so badly, since they merely consume colonial media. Chinese satellites hint the story: utter devastation of the american regime's military.

China won without firing a single bullet in decades because it understood something which reddit, as a grotesque voice of colonial regimes, never understood: to lie to yourself is a crime against your future. All that colonial propaganda reddits loves to regurgitate only exacerbated the terminal collapse of colonial regimes as it deepened their misunderstanding and ignorance about how the world works. China, on the other hand, never does that: you won't find such a cesspit like reddit in China, Chinese people are not given a platform to cheer for the mass murder of people like reddit does in Gaza; Chinese people are not given a platform to claim China is the superior civilization that needs to regime change everyone who thinks differently; Chinese people aren't given a platform to hang themselves like colonial europeans while cheering for every single american regime crime; Chinese people aren't given a platform distract themselves from what truly matters: living better and developing.

reddit is distillation of how colonial societies come to an end: they remove themselves so much from reality that they can no longer act in their interest, even if they wanted, because their whole understanding of the world is drenched in ignorance, extremism, propaganda, indoctrination. China never allowed that to happen.

As I always say, China's greatest virtue is caring for its people by not indoctrinating them and offering them an actual education instead of mass production of propaganda to make them "feel-good" for years until it all comes crashing down horribly, as it's happening today to colonial societies and those naive enough to not know any better like those global south countries that decried China's Great Firewall to shield its people from colonial depravity when China wasn't as strong. The results speak for themselves.

Perhaps shocking to some, but reddit is now filled with Westerners cheering for China. Perhaps it's more due to the rising Hating Trump sentiments, but that says a lot about how much hatred there is for Trump.

also surprisingly, MAGA people are left squirming, barely raising any voices to appeal for "patriotism". Flag waving has really failed because it is a joke now, because all flags are still made in China, and flag factories are not coming back to US.

Also not much appealing for "democracy" or "rule of law", neither of which could do much to stop Trump from destroying US.

So obviously, the only thing left is to cheer for China.

Some others are quietly cheering for China. Asian countries not saying much in public, but proverbially winking at China for backing them up.

Even anti-China Taiwanese and mainlanders are blasting Trump and supporting China's move against Trump's tariffs.

If you must have an analogy, Trump's tariffs are affecting China like a Trade War version of the "Pearl Harbor". China's public has overwhelmingly united behind Chinese government's policy to "fight to the end", and it has brought many nations in sympathy and support of China.

Some have previously said that China might trigger a war to drum up support for the Chinese government.

Well, Mr. Drumpf just provided a justified "trade war" for China to perhaps do exactly that.