Some Quotes :

“The alternative to a rules-based order is a world in which might makes right and winner takes all and that would be a far more violent and unstable world,” Blinken said.

The Chinese fired back. Yang Jiechi, a member of the Politburo, offered a lengthy monologue in which he said Western nations don’t represent global public opinion and called the U.S. the “champion” of cyber-attacks.

“Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States,” he said, citing the killing of Black Americans and the Black Lives Matter movement. Near the end of his opening remarks, he said Blinken’s comments weren’t “normal” and added that in response “mine aren’t either.”

Things only got worse from there. Cameras were ushered from the room, only to be called back in. Yang and Foreign Minister Wang Yi took the opportunity to follow up with even more criticism. “Is that the way you had hoped to conduct this dialogue?” Yang asked, according to his delegation’s translator. “I think we thought too well of the United States. The United States isn’t qualified to speak to China from a position of strength.”

https://archive.is/V8Inr#selection-3653.0-3665.64

Mic Drop .... :xi-clap: :xi-lib-tears:

  • toledosequel [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Research on the protests show time and time again that the overwhelming majority were peaceful. The "violence" is the cost of trying to solve crime by pressing a militarized unaccountable police force on poor people. Whatever they've gone through, theres no telling us what to do with our freedom especially if they can't bother to get facts right.

    • Malikto [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      The cops didn't set all those stores on fire. It greatly damaged the credibility of pro-democracy forces in China and the CPC made sure it got top billing on all the social media. Kind of like how Youtube artificially puts videos they politically approve of in the "Trending" category or Twitter inflates hashtags. It was used against the Hong Kong protesters, too. "They're two sides of the same coin! We must stop these wreckers before they cause havoc like they did in America!"

      • toledosequel [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah the cops were too busy running over people and wrecking the cars of passerbys. Do they show the video of people being shot on their front porch for filming the police? Or are you gonna keep saying "well some protests turned into riots so police states are legitimate"

        • Malikto [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Dude I'm telling you what China saw. It's no different from Twitter or Youtube putting political topics they like up front where people will see them.

            • Malikto [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              So? There's no free speech in China. The government decides what's on the front page. We do the same, but private companies do it so it's OK in some kind of weird hardcore libertarian viewpoint.

              • toledosequel [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                Oh I'm sorry I didn't realize the CCP sends direct broadcasts to the brain of their citizens.

                What's your point anyway?

                • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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                  4 years ago

                  Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like Malikto is just trying to use their Chinese language skills and cultural knowledge to help us understand some of the discourse happening in China without it being filtered through an American source.

      • RedDawn [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        This is just unironic chud talking points. The cops overwhelmingly started riots during otherwise peaceful protests, which themselves are the result of police brutalizing the population. Fires and looting have everything to do with the US population and especially minority population being overly oppressed, not having “too much freedom” lmfao