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Apparently, the department of defense doesn't need a provocation for them to act.

In reality, Russia does have a say over its neighboring countries. So do all superpowers.

do you agree that Cuba should be able to join a voluntary pact with USSR and US shouldn't do anything about it?

more likely, you were treated as foreigner that no one really wanted to talk about government when you were present.

I was surprised to hear that that Winnie the Pooh was banned in China for some ridiculous reason. Then I did my verification. And turns out it is not the truth. baidu is dominant s…

I don't think that setting up an enemy is what Chinese government needs to survive after 1979. it might be used to. on the contrary, what they need to survive now is to keep their …

i'd say 99% Chinese people don't know or don't watch South Park. yes, its popularity is very much overestimated.

didn't you see this "as for exact scale, I'd leave that to you. you could easily figure that out as there are ton of such information online"? i encourage you to find out the answe…

"Not being able to say something in public is like not being able to say it at all." buddy, being so cynical is not really helpful for any constructive discussion. not mention that…

if you don't know or doubt how popular VPN is used in China, it indicates that you know little about modern China. everyone I know uses VPN or know how to use VPN if they need. as …

you are right. but there is bigger question of what information is "correct". no offense, it'd be naive to treat the first result of google result as being correct. we all know the…

I watched the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests on China official TV daily when it was broadcast until the end of May 1989. I was a teenager at that time. we talked about it at school…

how many Chinese people have you ever talked to before you say "most of them are brainwashed"? If more than 1 billion people are brainwashed in the era of Internet, either 1. it is…

"The average Chinese person either doesn't know about Tinanmen" I am an average Chinese person but I know it since I was a teenager. I suggest that you don't assume that Chinese pe…

don't you think that Fedex is suspicious for diversion to the US of some Huawei packages when US government is targeting Huawei for "national security"? what if a Chinese courier c…

assume if you are a leader of central government and your trusted local government proposes a bill, would you support it or not? can you simply say it's wrong to support?

believe or not, people in Xingjing and Tibet used to have more rights than Han Chinese. for example, they were allowed to have more than one children while Han Chinese were strictl…

you can speculate that China government is behind the bill. anyone can. but it's speculation until there is evidence. So far, there isn't such evidence as far as I am aware. In my …

"Authoritarian regimes are rarely fair and are not particularly interested in the financial well being of the population." if you think Chinese government is authoritarian, then it…

China didn't take any actions before the protest. It is Hong Kong government that proposed the new law. just fyi for making a valid cause.

either your friend or you is fool.

are you sure that you've gone through some critical thinking before saying that?

read through the article but can't find any hard evidence pointing to China. It makes me think that blaming China is just an easy way out when western companies got hacked due to t…

1st gen? are you kidding? millions of its international users love it no mention 1 billion domestic users. it's just mostly designed for Chinese users.

Huawei would like to participate in "forced" partnership and open their servers to the US government in exchange US market access. But still, it's banned by national security. laug…