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Rumor: China's ethics board reviews 20 popular online games, bans 9

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Re: Rumor: China's ethics board reviews 20 popular online games, bans 9

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Post by throwaway2048 »

Interesting in light of the leaked CIA profile on Xi Jingping (Current leader of the Chinese communist party)

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09BEIJING3128_a.html

A choice quote:

   Xi knows how very corrupt China is and is repulsed by the 
   all-encompassing commercialization of Chinese society, 
   with its attendant nouveau riche, official corruption, 
   loss of values, dignity, and self-respect, and such "moral 
   evils" as drugs and prostitution, the professor stated. 
   The professor speculated that if Xi were to become the 
   Party General Secretary, he would likely aggressively 
   attempt to address these evils, perhaps at the expense of 
   the new moneyed class.

Re: Rumor: China's ethics board reviews 20 popular online games, bans 9

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Post by wisdomoftheages »

zabana wrote: post #10

[Off-topic] - What's with all the "China is evil" articles lately ? Are there any websites (non-chinese) where I can find news about positive advancements in the country ? This whole anti-China hype train got me intrigued.

Well, in the Xi era China has a) become more of an overtly fascist dictatorship and b) harder for Westerners to make money in, so because of b) there's more incentive to focus on a)

Still lots of great stuff happening there, so long as you're not an ethnic minority, religious, LGBT, disabled, an addict, mentally ill, interested in social change, or too poor to afford your own private oxygen and food supply

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Post by kkarakk »

point78 wrote: post #12

What is the solution to China either constantly banning our products and then cloning them or counterfeiting what's not banned? We're losing billions.

regime change by cutting off their benefits and forcing unrest seems to be the only way. waaaay too many countries are having their industries undercut by cheap chinese imports that basically rip off products.

the only good thing trump has done is the china tariffs

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Post by mrobot »

zabana wrote: post #10

[Off-topic] - What's with all the "China is evil" articles lately ? Are there any websites (non-chinese) where I can find news about positive advancements in the country ? This whole anti-China hype train got me intrigued.

I am seeing the same thing. It seems to me an attempt to demonize the country for war or "us vs them" purposes. One major focus that i am seeing possibly overhyped is the Uyghur "camps" thing. The US government and its corporate media are suddenly just so concerned about this and i haven't seen many images or anything to really back it up. Anyway, it seems 9/10 articles that make the news now are just negative, and it seems the frequency of articles is suddenly much higher.

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Post by paraditedc »

zabana wrote: post #10

[Off-topic] - What's with all the "China is evil" articles lately ? Are there any websites (non-chinese) where I can find news about positive advancements in the country ? This whole anti-China hype train got me intrigued.

I recently started a blog that might interest you. The focus is on technology industry in China, as well as some tech related political issues. Links are in my profile.

I try to be as neutral as possible, but as an overseas Chinese, I can't help but tends to have a slight bias towards Chinese government.

Re: Rumor: China's ethics board reviews 20 popular online games, bans 9

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Post by realusername »

duchenne wrote: post #6
realusername wrote: post #2

It's probably all bullshit reasons as usual with the CCCP to let their local market to compete with local stuff. > Fortnite by Epic Games/Tencent (Blood and gore, vulgar content.) This has to be the most ridiculous reason, Fortnite banned for blood and gore? It's just a cartoon game.

It is probably a mistranslation, they obviously mean that the "battle royale" theme is too violent: a bunch of strangers are gathered and have to kill each other until the last one. Personally, I enjoy that kind of games, but the fact that they display smiling cartoon characters killing each others can make some people even more uncomfortable. On steam, a game where you play a school shooter was recently banned. Can…

You could argue about that but what about blood and gore? There's not even any blood in the game.

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Post by duchenne »

zabana wrote: post #10

[Off-topic] - What's with all the "China is evil" articles lately ? Are there any websites (non-chinese) where I can find news about positive advancements in the country ? This whole anti-China hype train got me intrigued.

I do not have a specific website in mind. But, there are some news about some cool Chinese accomplishments: they will send a robot on the far side of the Moon soon; they are leading in electricle vehicules and public transport, photovoltaic pannels, electonic payments. They have some promising research in Thorium-based plants.

Re: Rumor: China's ethics board reviews 20 popular online games, bans 9

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Post by zabana »

wisdomoftheages wrote: post #14
zabana wrote: post #10

[Off-topic] - What's with all the "China is evil" articles lately ? Are there any websites (non-chinese) where I can find news about positive advancements in the country ? This whole anti-China hype train got me intrigued.

Well, in the Xi era China has a) become more of an overtly fascist dictatorship and b) harder for Westerners to make money in, so because of b) there's more incentive to focus on a) Still lots of great stuff happening there, so long as you're not an ethnic minority, religious, LGBT, disabled, an addict, mentally ill, interested in social change, or too poor to afford your own private oxygen and food supply

Ethnic and religious minorities are also persecuted all over the US and Europe, it may not be physically (except if you're black in the US) but there's definitely a psychological warfare being declared against these groups through mass media and culture (movies, tv shows, literature ...). I'm not too sure we can give lessons to the Chinese government on this subject.
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