America threatening to ban TikTok shows the West's decline


OMG, thank you for that.

and this:

BREAKING: China’s Huawei is reportedly set to reveal its own domestically manufactured 14nm Kirin Chip in the coming weeks, a major breakthrough in overcoming sanctions against the company by the US. SMIC shares surged 10% on hearing the news.

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So America is pissed off that they aren’t sharing your private data with them. I see.

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Not just Hollywood, but the West has the best advertising engine.

That’s why Russian / Chinese propaganda comes off laughable sometimes. Because they are amateurs compared to Western countries, and that’s the problemt, because now everyone in the West thinks they are so smart at being able to pick Chinese propaganda up, but can’t see when they are being controlled themsleves.

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you know what I smell? freedom…

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Yes, and maybe 3 years ago you could point to China and shock everybody, but it’s the current year, and that’s my point. The gap is shrinking, and in some cases it’s no longer there or overtaken by the West.

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Remember also that China has billions of people to manage, while Australia has just over 27 million I think, so the dynamics will be different also.

Not excusing China for doing what they did, and I would NOT want to be there during COVID, but Australia was not far behind in the insanity.

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you’re a real smart person.

Yeah I might be out of date in that. I remember a case when a middle class home owner reported a burglary. Well the police did a good job and caught the perpetrators , but among the stolen goods was a video of the married couple having oral sex. The couple were then charged with commiting oral sex. :joy:

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China is as “socialist” as Nazi Germany.

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One can only comment that this post is guileless and jejune.

Your favorite country’s market does not allow FB, Reddit or google. Did you know that?

Your favorite country did not put a man on the moon. One’s country did. One’s country has tons of issues, so does all.

You should also consider a sojourn in political science and philosophy.

Cheers.

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Forgot Youtube.

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Hey jimbo, IS China your favorite country?

I assumed @Scientist was replying to the OP not the preceding post by @jimipresley

Although I agree it’s is easy to get the wrong idea.

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Especially from a brand new snarky poster.

That’s not what I said. I’m saying, if need be, the U.S. would be extremely unlikely(virtually 0%) be able to get China to cooperate and adhere to any policies they might impose.

We should ban China. Shut down trade to zero.

Do not forget like 30 countries represent West + East Asian democracies. We trade with each other under broadly speaking relatively free trade. Sometimes they are limitations. Not everyone is a winner in such organized world, Italy for example. But is relatively fair competition in trade among nations.

Than you have China and Russia, who have never brought new technology to world, screaming our little neighbors have to go down on knees and do whatever we say. Otherwise we will bomb you
Well free world has 50 % of world GDP. China + Russia like 20 %. We should ban them from our world, from our paradise, including their immigrants. They hate us anyway, right? Cause let’s be frank, putin and xi are supported by 75 % of domestic audience.
When it comes to Indians and Arabs, they can be with Chinese. But please stop coming to our countries to study and stop buying luxury houses with your tax fraud companies.

It’s so simple really

So much for all of our cheaply made goods from Amazon, our iPhones, our sneakers, pretty much everything else.

Look around and make a count of everything you own that’s made in China and ask if that’s possible or reasonable

Oh PS they own like half the world’s real estate now so how are you going to ban that.

We will re learn how to produce all that crapy plastic within 5 years max.

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That would send the world spinning into a civilization crushing recession and depression I would think.