WoW, lots of angry words. West has its problems but they don't compare to China.
But to the current point if Google is restricted in China why should TikTok have free reign ?
And to elaborate on threat to the world:
1. Who caused current pandemic and why?
2. How many died in Wuhan any why there is no honest disclose despite entire world suffering?
3. Why China is engaged in border conflict with every single neighbor on some pretext or other?
4. How do you justify oppressive social credit system?
1. Nobody caused it. Are you seriously implying some lab-grown conspiracy? It could have happened anywhere.
2. I cannot believe you're arguing mishandling of the pandemic => threat to the world when we can all see that Western countries are struggling so much more to muster a proper response. China is open again.
3. How much prosperity and development did the US cost South America? Vietnam? Iraq? How do border squabbles compare to the damage the UK inflicted on India?
4. This is a threat to the world..how? And we've arrived at the same place with credit rating, social pressure, woke culture, so what do I care whether it's the government imposing it or the people?
> West has its problems but they don't compare to China
You don't get to just assert this as an obvious truth. It's decidedly non-obvious to anyone not drunk on Western Kool-Aid. My position is that they are closer than you think, and that you prefer the West because you are part of the West. Which is understandable - but let's drop the pretenses.
1. and 2.
Yes China caused it by trying to be hide the truth in the early stages of infection. Up until March China and WHO was misleading the entire world. Are you saying this didn't happen?
West is struggling because they cannot force draconian laws of it's citizens. Do you believe only 5k died in China?
3. How Western imprelism are a justification for Chinese incursions into their neighbor's territories? How exactly China is going to bring development by accquiring territories of neighbors?
4. They aren't comparable. In China you just vanish the moment like the Wuhan Whistle blowers vanished.
WoW, lots of angry words. West has its problems but they don't compare to China. But to the current point if Google is restricted in China why should TikTok have free reign ?
And to elaborate on threat to the world:
1. Who caused current pandemic and why?
2. How many died in Wuhan any why there is no honest disclose despite entire world suffering?
3. Why China is engaged in border conflict with every single neighbor on some pretext or other?
4. How do you justify oppressive social credit system?