> - China actively works to remove mentions about the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
When you say “China”, don’t you think you are being unnecessarily ambiguous?
Any Chinese national can identify with the word “China”, yet unlike Western nationals they’d have absolutely no say in these policy matters, even indirectly through an election.
Think about the effect you want your message to have. With careless phrasing, some of the audience of the message might have two choices: either be left feeling put down in a non-actionable way, or start taking offence—which, if we simplistically pretend there are just two sides in this issue, might mean your message would end up slowly fuelling the opposite side throughout its lifetime on the Web (which would probably be many years).
I personally am trying to be more precise and stick to “CCP” in such context, and in this situation support the sentiment in dang’s note.
> - China actively works to remove mentions about the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
When you say “China”, don’t you think you are being unnecessarily ambiguous?
Any Chinese national can identify with the word “China”, yet unlike Western nationals they’d have absolutely no say in these policy matters, even indirectly through an election.
Think about the effect you want your message to have. With careless phrasing, some of the audience of the message might have two choices: either be left feeling put down in a non-actionable way, or start taking offence—which, if we simplistically pretend there are just two sides in this issue, might mean your message would end up slowly fuelling the opposite side throughout its lifetime on the Web (which would probably be many years).
I personally am trying to be more precise and stick to “CCP” in such context, and in this situation support the sentiment in dang’s note.