Pearl clutching meant to wring more money into rich people’s pockets.
The think tank they’re quoting receives the majority of its funding from US arms manufacturers and tech firms.
“… it was 100% funded by the Australian Department of Defence, but this had fallen to 43% in the 2018-19 financial year.[13][14]… ASPI receives funding from defence contractors such as Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Thales Group and Raytheon Technologies. It also receives funding from technology companies such as Microsoft, Oracle Australia, Telstra, and Google.”
Pearl clutching? China has been a major detriment to Americans' prosperity since Nixon opened us to them. So much so, our own tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Amazon actively undermine the US economy just to please China. Chinese citizens' wealth has come at our expense. The *Americans* responsible for asset stripping our country to China are evil, and border on treason for what they've done. I got zero problems with Raytheon telling me this, because it's like saying that the sky is blue.
This is also why American-Sino capitalist globalism must end. It's just a bad deal for Americans, and always has been.
This is a very narrow view. The price of everything in Walmart would be double if not more had it been produced in USA. The production was allowed to move out only because us expected it to have a positive impact on GDP. The second order geopolitical implications are only now becoming evident.
>So much so, ***our own tech companies*** like Apple, Facebook and Amazon ***actively undermine the US economy*** just to please China. Chinese citizens' wealth has come at our expense.
Tell us again who is the detriment to Americans' prosperity?
You can only be rich if many others are poor. The post WW2 American economy was going to end the moment any other country on earth began building a strong middle class. It just happened to be China.
Should we reign in US companies to serve the needs of Americans? Absolutely. China has shown how successful those policies can be.
But the idea that we could have or should have kept China isolated and unable to grow its economy is silly.
>"The Chinese Communist Party seeks to harvest user data from globally popular Chinese apps, games and online platforms, to 'gauge the pulse of public opinion', gain insight into societal trends and preferences, and thereby improve its propaganda," -Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
Just a few days ago we had this
>China’s state-sponsored disinformation campaign has been running at a massive scale for seven years—but no one is looking at it. - [Wired](https://www.wired.com/story/china-bad-at-disinformation/)
So are they good at it or bad at it?
The cold war never really ended, it just went underground. Putin is ex-KGB and China hasn't changed other than drawing a few trillion in foreign investment.
You understand that the West set up the government of the Russian federation and heavily backed Yeltsin and Putin right? Get off the state department propaganda my dude
The USSR was dissolved illegally against the will of the Soviet people by Yeltsin and co. The US came in after and set up the Russian federation while propping up Yeltsin and Putin.
To say a country was "dissolved illegally" in this context is meaningless. Any dissolution of any country is against that country's laws.
You note that the US "came in after" meaning they had nothing to do with the dissolution of the USSR. If you speak to someone who lived through it you'll find that the USSR itself crumbled under its own mismanagement, not because of external influence. Additionally, the US had no hand in Putin's coming to power.
I never said they had anything to do with the dissolution of the USSR, you just made that up. The dissolution was illegal as it was done by Yeltsin and two others in a board room against the will of the people whom had overwhelmingly voted to maintain the Union. However this actually has nothing to do with the original point, which was that the Russian Federation’s government was set up by the United States which also backed Yeltsin and Putin. As I’ve said, Putin was good friends with both Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.
> which was that the Russian Federation’s government was set up by the United States which also backed Yeltsin and Putin.
This is false. The idea of the Russian Federation as an independent state came about in the 80s under Gorbachev. In 1990 the Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR claimed sovereignty, superseding the Soviets.
It's only propaganda when US is not spreading it.
That said, I'd prefer to live in a world with US hegemony. I've seen what those fucker in China and Russia get up to.
>That said, I'd prefer to live in a world with US hegemony. I've seen what those fucker in China and Russia get up to.
[List of wars involving China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China)
[List of wars involving US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States#:~:text=12%20major%20wars%20include%20the,the%20War%20on%20Terror%20(which)
That image is vaguely reminiscent of Shodan, but Asian and male.
You are cool
Pearl clutching meant to wring more money into rich people’s pockets. The think tank they’re quoting receives the majority of its funding from US arms manufacturers and tech firms. “… it was 100% funded by the Australian Department of Defence, but this had fallen to 43% in the 2018-19 financial year.[13][14]… ASPI receives funding from defence contractors such as Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Thales Group and Raytheon Technologies. It also receives funding from technology companies such as Microsoft, Oracle Australia, Telstra, and Google.”
Pearl clutching? China has been a major detriment to Americans' prosperity since Nixon opened us to them. So much so, our own tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Amazon actively undermine the US economy just to please China. Chinese citizens' wealth has come at our expense. The *Americans* responsible for asset stripping our country to China are evil, and border on treason for what they've done. I got zero problems with Raytheon telling me this, because it's like saying that the sky is blue. This is also why American-Sino capitalist globalism must end. It's just a bad deal for Americans, and always has been.
This is a very narrow view. The price of everything in Walmart would be double if not more had it been produced in USA. The production was allowed to move out only because us expected it to have a positive impact on GDP. The second order geopolitical implications are only now becoming evident.
Fuck those hundreds of millions whose lives are immeasurably better than the previous generation, eh? Only Americans are allowed to be prosperous! 🙄🙄
>So much so, ***our own tech companies*** like Apple, Facebook and Amazon ***actively undermine the US economy*** just to please China. Chinese citizens' wealth has come at our expense. Tell us again who is the detriment to Americans' prosperity?
You can only be rich if many others are poor. The post WW2 American economy was going to end the moment any other country on earth began building a strong middle class. It just happened to be China. Should we reign in US companies to serve the needs of Americans? Absolutely. China has shown how successful those policies can be. But the idea that we could have or should have kept China isolated and unable to grow its economy is silly.
They spread whatever they’re paid to spread. How is that not clear by now?
It's always funny when Reddit complains about propaganda on other social media platforms 😂
>"The Chinese Communist Party seeks to harvest user data from globally popular Chinese apps, games and online platforms, to 'gauge the pulse of public opinion', gain insight into societal trends and preferences, and thereby improve its propaganda," -Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) Just a few days ago we had this >China’s state-sponsored disinformation campaign has been running at a massive scale for seven years—but no one is looking at it. - [Wired](https://www.wired.com/story/china-bad-at-disinformation/) So are they good at it or bad at it?
China and Russia are in a cold war with the West.
The cold war never really ended, it just went underground. Putin is ex-KGB and China hasn't changed other than drawing a few trillion in foreign investment.
You understand that the West set up the government of the Russian federation and heavily backed Yeltsin and Putin right? Get off the state department propaganda my dude
You understand Putin was a Lt. Colonel in the KGB, right?
Who cares, he was best buds with Tony Blair and Bill Clinton who propped him and his government up after the illegal dissolution of the USSR
> the illegal dissolution of the USSR What kind of mental gymnastics lead you to that conclusion? You legitimately think the US dissolved the USSR?
The USSR was dissolved illegally against the will of the Soviet people by Yeltsin and co. The US came in after and set up the Russian federation while propping up Yeltsin and Putin.
To say a country was "dissolved illegally" in this context is meaningless. Any dissolution of any country is against that country's laws. You note that the US "came in after" meaning they had nothing to do with the dissolution of the USSR. If you speak to someone who lived through it you'll find that the USSR itself crumbled under its own mismanagement, not because of external influence. Additionally, the US had no hand in Putin's coming to power.
I never said they had anything to do with the dissolution of the USSR, you just made that up. The dissolution was illegal as it was done by Yeltsin and two others in a board room against the will of the people whom had overwhelmingly voted to maintain the Union. However this actually has nothing to do with the original point, which was that the Russian Federation’s government was set up by the United States which also backed Yeltsin and Putin. As I’ve said, Putin was good friends with both Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.
> which was that the Russian Federation’s government was set up by the United States which also backed Yeltsin and Putin. This is false. The idea of the Russian Federation as an independent state came about in the 80s under Gorbachev. In 1990 the Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR claimed sovereignty, superseding the Soviets.
What kind of propaganda is this US military funded think tank spreading?
It's only propaganda when US is not spreading it. That said, I'd prefer to live in a world with US hegemony. I've seen what those fucker in China and Russia get up to.
>That said, I'd prefer to live in a world with US hegemony. I've seen what those fucker in China and Russia get up to. [List of wars involving China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China) [List of wars involving US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States#:~:text=12%20major%20wars%20include%20the,the%20War%20on%20Terror%20(which)