Partially agree with you but a lot of things you raised are the same in western countries. It’s also refreshing to read sensible commentary. The mass surveillance is the same in other countries including the US, but not as obvious as in China. The cameras work as a deterrent. I can leave my phone and laptop outside in the park or café and don’t need to worry about it being stolen. Censorship is a real thing all over the world especially now in the US with whitewashing of history. Even on US controlled platforms like Reddit, you get perma banned if you are critical of the Trump administration.

And I’m sure the history books in the US do not go in depth about the treatment of tge native Americans and how they were almost eradicated.

The same in Europe. In the Netherlands the history books never mention the atrocities the VOC did in regards to slave trade and colonies.

I don’t agree about the working conditions. I travel all over China and deal with different businesses. Things are definitely improving. But at least the workers have workers protections and social security and health care.

I have both lived and worked in the US and China and prefer living in China.

Let’s get the downvotes started

Actually this. Thank you. But unfortunately on the web you can not express anything positive or even neutral about China. Even though most have never set foot in China. If they would especially now most countries can travel visa free to China, it will change their mind. But that goes against the western propaganda.

China is an amazing country with beautiful nature, great people, amazing food, infrastructure Americans can only dream of, and millenia of history.

Plus China don’t starts illegal wars with other countries, impacting people all over the world.

Thanks America and your elected regime for meddling in everyone’s lives. You might be shocked to learn your popularity is waning.

AliPay works only for Chinese citizens overseas. I use AliPay happily in China, but it will not work overseas as I’m a foreigner. Luckily most ATM now accept unionpay which is the Chinese card standard.

Wait till you see how China pays for over a decade now. Only QR code or NFC. Since I moved here, I haven’t used cash or card in over 7 years. Everything you need is in one of the 2 super apps. You order food, cars, trains flights, bike share, etc all through the one app. Even the street vendors and few beggars you see, have a QR to scan.

Clearly never been to Shanghai or China in general.

Promise? Because every thing you touch, turns to shit.

Fuck FIFA.

Flower show in Shanghai with over 500000 tulips.

Maybe if you don’t invade every country with oil and behave like a decent nation, you may get a pass too.

They want to turn Reddit into a rightwing echo chamber. Lately there are so many comments on lemmy about people getting perma banned, including myself, for breaking rule 1. However in most cases, like myself, only made a comment without any harm or even a reference to violence. I only commented that ICE can forget about their payments and bonuses and that in 3 years time, they’ll be sucking immigrant cock behind a Wendy’s. That got me a perma ban after 15 years on Reddit. All these tech bros are bending the knee and getting taken from behind. Such short term thinking will become their downfall. If this happens, it’ll be a good thing for Lemmy.

China will not be impacted that much as you think. China is much more oil independent than before. Unlike the US, China invests heavily in green energy and nuclear energy. The only country that is behind in all of this, it’s the US.

https://hive.blog/hive-167922/@cryptoandcoffee/china-invested-1-trillion-on-renewable-energy-last-year-dqc

My question is which allies? Europe is not an ally, China is not an ally. UK is not an ally, Middle East is not an ally except Israel and UAE. So who is he even talking about?

Indeed they do but in other countries there are mechanisms in place to ensure you don’t get a cosplay dictator. In the Netherlands, Wilders was elected who is a Trump wannabe, but thanks for the proper democratic system in the Netherlands, he was severely limited in what crazy shit he wanted to do. Obviously the government collapsed and now they have a much more middle of the road government, which means more will get done. It is about checks and balances but Trump does whatever he wants and no one stops him.

I can tell from my own experience that for pharmaceuticals, they invest heavily in China. One German pharmaceutical has within 1 year, tripled their own staff and bought a local pharma for 1 billion US$. At the same time they closed multiple locations in the US and laid off hundreds of people. Because of the current regime that do not support or believe in the new science. Both Chinese local and central governments are going hard on science with big investments or tax breaks.

Edit: not to mention the investment in Green and renewable energy. China invested 1 trillion dollars last year alone. https://hive.blog/hive-167922/@cryptoandcoffee/china-invested-1-trillion-on-renewable-energy-last-year-dqc

Americans must be so proud of their commander in chief. Well at least 40% still are. That’s all you need to know about the United States. In regards to the world, you lost all respect and trust that took 80 years to built. If any other foreign leader would use this language, he would be in a white padded cell within hours.

Good thing the US left the WHO. Another brilliant move by the regime. And don’t come crawling back. The rest of the world will prepare for this disaster initiated by the US as ordered by Israel. The whole situation is just so vile.

China is just sitting back and watch this mess unfold. Of course there was zero chance of China helping the US. If anything it is strengthening the CCP position at home where the US turns the world is in chaos, but China remains stable and turned inward. The Chinese people mostly care about stability and safety. It’s all playing in China’s hands.

Cuba has the same condition.

Maybe FIFA can step in with the ‘straight out of Hormuz’ award. Also does anyone seriously think that China will assist the US after the way they have been and still are being treated?