Sources close to the Chinese Government have told Asia Markets a deal that will see China Evergrande restructured into three seperate entities is currently being finalised by the Chinese Communist Party and could be announced within days.
So "Chinese Nationals" just means citizens, right? Like, they're just trying to find a spooky way of saying, "this government looks out for its peoples", yeah?
"Nationals" conjures an image of being detached from a normal context somehow. You never use it to describe people who were born in a country, who still live there, under a regular-old government. You'd never call a French person in Paris a "French national," for instance. It's almost always used to describe someone from Country A living in Country B, and there's often some temporary status or unusual circumstance attached (e.g., they fled from their home country for political reasons).
So "Chinese Nationals" just means citizens, right? Like, they're just trying to find a spooky way of saying, "this government looks out for its peoples", yeah?
Western "journalists" trying to make people afraid of the idea that government can actually help people lol
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"Nationals" conjures an image of being detached from a normal context somehow. You never use it to describe people who were born in a country, who still live there, under a regular-old government. You'd never call a French person in Paris a "French national," for instance. It's almost always used to describe someone from Country A living in Country B, and there's often some temporary status or unusual circumstance attached (e.g., they fled from their home country for political reasons).
It's textbook Othering in this case.
New bit: use all of the Western propaganda bits such as this but on American news
you could honestly do a whole site that just rewrote the wire services articles this way
"The Biden Regime Hoards Vaccines for American Nationals, Refuses to Lift Crushing Restrictions on Manufacturing Abroad"
It has real "regime" vibes. National is to Citizen as Regime is to Administration; one is the scary Bad Country, the other is the safe Good Country.