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Why not? I don't think China is going to change it's functional political system just to prove a point to some rando on the internet is why.
It's people like you, and the predictable but classless act of keeping Wikimedia off WIPO (and similar ones) that gives CCP (and "China") bad rep all over world. Many would have liked a/one more counterbalance to US hegemony. From the latest polls though, it seems people would rather the US hegemony continues/strengthens rather than seeing CCP/"China" rises further. Such intangible acts will, sooner or later, have ta…
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And yet Xinjiang makes up for 20 % of arrests in the entire country. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/19/chinas-treatment-of...
Have you ever heard of the FBI crime statistics?
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Why not? I don't think China is going to change it's functional political system just to prove a point to some rando on the internet is why.
It's people like you, and the predictable but classless act of keeping Wikimedia off WIPO (and similar ones) that gives CCP (and "China") bad rep all over world. Many would have liked a/one more counterbalance to US hegemony. From the latest polls though, it seems people would rather the US hegemony continues/strengthens rather than seeing CCP/"China" rises further. Such intangible acts will, sooner or later, have ta…
(Disclaimer: I'm a franco-Canadian of mixed European descent.) This article doesn't give China a great image, sure. I can think of a million criticisms to levy against China. However, I feel like a lot of the comments aren't just criticizing China, they seem to be outright anti-China. I wonder if, in the grand scheme of things, Americans/Westerners might be feeling threatened by the shift in power. I wonder if Americ…
You're shifting the goalposts...Has America or any western country blocked the wikimedia foundation from entering WIPO?
Of course Wikimedia won't take any action to appease this totalitarian nonsense. But, most for-profit companies do exactly that. When was the last time any Hollywood movie or mainstream entertainment mentioned Taiwanese conflict? When do you last remember seeing "Free Tibet"? Or any Tibet? Chinese film censors can apply billions of dollars of pressure, simply to change a single word. Who can withstand that? Wikimedia…
It's even crazier because when you are not american you realize that Hollywood is also the biggest soft propaganda agency for the USA. When have you seen a movie about the USSR winning the WW2? Or about the Guantanamo Bay?
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> I wonder if Americans/Westerners are capable of acknowledging the things that their countries get wrong, or do wrong. Why would you wonder that? This forum is chock full of criticism of the American government by Americans. I’ve personally levied a huge amount of it myself on this very website. In fact, I genuinely cannot imagine how you could possibly ask such a question in good faith.
It’s a valid question, given that US perpetrators never meet justice and the society isn’t even trying to do anything about it.
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I think people expect the U.N. to be an advocate for their visions of the world. The U.N.'s primary purpose is simply to minimize the occurrence of war, especially nuclear war, not to spread any particular political ideology across the world such as “freedom and democracy”. In this particular case it allows China a conduit to achieve what it wants to without firing nuclear missiles.
It is in essence the triumph of words over violence, which is never a bad thing. It sucks if your words do not win, but it is better than your family dying and then not winning anyway.
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Nazis: https://www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-na... Then there's this: > Most of Scottish Wikipedia Written By American in Mangled English https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxqy8x/most-of-scottish-wiki... Some examples of the writing here: https://twitter.com/NeerajKA/status/1298579510581960705 And finally, I remember some translated wikipedia language was mostly written by like 10 people and went ki…
The first is not an example of misinformation at all. The second isn't politically motivated, but simple vandalism.
> actual disinformation in a concerted effort especially on politically charged topics
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USSR dissolution and declaration of independence by ex Union states = Russia doesn't have the same legal claims at UN anymore. Whereas PRC has maintained legal claims over ROC at UN, it's still a domestic issues where interests on both sides of the strait matter. So yes, it really does work that way if one subscribes to the Westphalian system that west seems to advocate. Being a representative government has no barin…
The West doesn't uniformly advocate the Westphalian system; not even close. On the contrary, it's something that's brought up much more frequently by Russia these days.