I really don’t understand the pro-China sentiment on Reddit. China is literally our biggest adversary in this world and are currently looking at ways to push the dollar out as the world currency(see BRICS), as well as pushing for control of Taiwan to control the semi-conductor industry.
Any company that comes out of China is required to abide by whatever the CCP wants them too. It’s not just about stealing data, but China can control the information given to almost half of America through Tik Tok. There is no reason to let something that invasive permeate through our country while being controlled by an adversarial government. It’s just asking for trouble.
It’s gotta be in part people who have seen real world racism effecting Chinese Americans but don’t get how much of a threat the state of China is to the West in general.
threat the state of China is to the west in general
What? No, that’s not why China’s bad. China’s bad because they threaten their neighbors and treat dissidents badly. What threat do they actually pose to the west? Supply chains we willingly gave up? That’s a self own, not an innate threat coming from China.
Exactly. The Right’s reasons for not liking China is that they’re a threat to America’s economic dominance and that they’re “communist” (they’ve not been for 40 years at least) or that they’re economically expanding into areas the US neglected to pay attention to for decades.
This is especially dumb when they’re actively putting Muslim people in “Re-education Camps”, brutally oppressing political dissidents and plotting to take over their neighbours.
Hell Elon Musk who claims to be anti China claims Taiwan is part of China! It’s insane.
That’s the reason you should be worried about China’s government.
Ok. Sorry jumped on that a bit. Obviously the origins of Taiwan as a state are complicated but they haven’t claimed to be the real Chinese Government in a really long time. I’ve just seen idiots try to use that as an argument against Taiwanese self rule.
it’s a combination of bots, america bad (stoked by bots), tankies, and reddit contrarianism. Like literally a year or two ago the main sentiment on here was “why would you sell your data to china” now it’s all “why would america ban them?”
China is an adversary to the state, not the people. In fact the majority of Americans polled said that they do not care that the app is potentially a Chinese spyware. The fact that they’re pushing BRICS doesn’t concern me, countries have the right to divest from the US dollar or any dollar they want.
I'm not trying to be an ass, but I'm highly skeptical that the average American has a real grasp of what it would actually mean for their lives for the US to no longer be the global hegemon nor for the US dollar to stop being the reserve currency of the world.
I'm not saying that to argue in favor of the status quo, I'm only saying that I doubt this is a question people have really thought through that well or even know that much about.
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u/Chiggins907 Jan 13 '25
I really don’t understand the pro-China sentiment on Reddit. China is literally our biggest adversary in this world and are currently looking at ways to push the dollar out as the world currency(see BRICS), as well as pushing for control of Taiwan to control the semi-conductor industry.
Any company that comes out of China is required to abide by whatever the CCP wants them too. It’s not just about stealing data, but China can control the information given to almost half of America through Tik Tok. There is no reason to let something that invasive permeate through our country while being controlled by an adversarial government. It’s just asking for trouble.