2019: :sicko-blur: haha yes Anti-Extradition Law, Hong Kong stand up to the evil government, burn it down 🔥
2020: :sicko-no: No, not the Minneapolis Target!!
"Over there they have real problems, over here the BLM anarchists are just whining!"
I believe a talking point in China for a while was how orderly the responses to the Hong Kong protests were versus the USA where cops flood whole neighborhoods full of tear gas.
The fervor with which redditors insist Taiwan is a country is really bizzarre. Such a weird thing to take such a hard position on if you aren’t an actual nationalist from the Chinese island known as Taiwan.
npc meme: Tainwan is a country / Okay, What is the name of that country?/ :| / >:(
I remember seeing one sub where someone was a 1st gen person from taiwan. They explained how weird the west taiwan meme was, only for everyone to turn around and joke about lower taiwan.
I mean . . . that video of people doing the national anthem in a WalMart happened in north Texas. You've stumbled into a correct arrangement of words!
My favorite thing is pointing out to them that Taiwan doesn't even recognize itself as a country. They're not even defending what they think they are, they just invented some ridiculous strawman argument to oWn ThE cOmMiEs that completely ignores their supposed allies.
It's really confusing too, since it seems so detached from anything. I've never seen any of these people mention the concerns of indigenous Taiwanese people either.
The only thing I've been able to say to give them pause is the United Nations and most countries in it have recognized the PRC as the sole administrator of Taiwan since 1971.
MacArthur did want to nuke China during the Korean War and got slapped down hard by Truman.
Shows you how much the average redditor understands history.
Us to China in the 1950s: ouch ow shit fuck please don't go south of the 38th parallel we'll call it a draw okay ouch.
"I just want the CCP removed"
Hmmm I wonder how that would happen, Western Chauvinist.
"I've never spoken to a person from China but let me tell you how their government should be reorganized. Also even if I did talk to a Chinese person they're all brainwashed so whatever."
I’ve never spoken to a person from China
All my
KMT-affiliated Taiwanese ex-patsChinese friends say China Bad.Also, let me tell you how Candice Owens is the Real Voice of Black America.
It's hilarious to me that westerners think calling Xi Winnie the Pooh is a meaningful way of attacking China
They have no ability to do anything of consequence, like organize a national boycott or direct their nation's foreign policy, so it just becomes a cultural expression like everything else. They also think they're being rebellious.
They have no ability to do anything of consequence, like organize a national boycott or direct their nation’s foreign policy
Trump tried to do tariffs on China and it kinda-sorta stuck. Now Biden's getting on the Sanctions bandwagon and doing China Bad press events during every spare moment when he's not doing Russia Bad.
It looks like making China and Russia the new National Enemies is absolutely working. The ramp up is slow, because we're so far in bed with the Chinese that we can't cut ties overnight. But given the rise in stochastic violence aimed at Asian communities, the all-in commitment to China Bad from every corner of the mass media, and the endless waves of agitprop echoing through social media, I wouldn't be overly surprised if we saw something like an anti-China BDS or another round of Trans-Pacific Partnership talks intended to economically fence China in before 2024 married to the kind of Chinese Exclusion Act attitudes espoused by Tom Cotton. Insecure underperforming White Americans would love nothing more than to purge Asian Americans from state universities and ban them from government jobs, for instance.
I don't think its going to work, simply because American foreign policy has been dogshit for decades and everyone knows it. But I can absolutely see a new consumerist Red Scare, particularly as we try to explain the contradictions of climate change in a way that doesn't offend domestic capital.
I can't wait until America bans pictures of Winnie-the-Pooh to Own the Chinese.
Even though I'm not a Maoist, the man was right:
In a 1956 interview with Strong, Mao used the phrase "paper tiger" to describe American imperialism again:
In appearance it is very powerful but in reality it is nothing to be afraid of; it is a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain. I believe that it is nothing but a paper tiger.
So the US was never able to bully China into anything, :reddit-logo: being cringe again...
I mean you don't have to be a Maoist to dig Mao. I don't think anyone in the current CPC would identify as "Maoist"
What
They're still following SWCC which is Maoist, the New Democracy stuff that the CPC has been doing for the past half century is a Maoist program.
China isn't Maoist anymore, every leader since Mao has continued to adapt CPC's ideology to the current times, starting with Dengism, then Three Represents (Jiang Zemin), then Scientific Outlook on Development (Hu Jintao), and finally Xi Jinping Thought. The CPC sees them as continuations of Mao Zedong Thought but some people instead see them as revisionist.
Maoists fundamentally uphold the GPCR and the CPC doesn't.
The CPC upholds ML-Mao ZeDong thought, which does incorporate some of Mao's ideas but does not incorporate the GPCR.
"Maoism", in most leftist circles, almost always refers to the ideology first developed by the Shining Path in Peru, and is the ideology of orgs like the Communist Party of India (Maoist), Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), and the Communist Party of the Philippines
Mao referred to his own ideas as "Mao Zedong Thought"
Did China try to retake Taiwan even once? What does "again" mean there?
are they referring to an actual case of the US reprimanding someone for recognizing Taiwan, which the US openly recognizes, or are the redditors imagining things to get mad about again?
I think they are talking about John Cena who made an apology video after saying Taiwan is a "country". Because a government threatening to nuke another country is the same thing as some private studio/actor who's afraid the ticket sales of the latest Fast and Furious flick will tank in China.
which the US openly recognizes
how so? they do not have formal diplo relations or a Taipei embassy they do the "interest association" dodge
they sell them weapons and stuff but they have not officially recognized ROC since the switch in I think 1979
