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[–] baaaaaaaaaaah@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago

Interesting, thanks.

[–] baaaaaaaaaaah@hexbear.net 38 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

How so? Do American trans people buy meds/hormones from China or something?

[–] baaaaaaaaaaah@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I want to be mad at you for joke theft but then I remembered that I'm a communist deng-salute

[–] baaaaaaaaaaah@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Tibet was recognised by every country on the planet as sovereign Chinese territory, both then and today.

(That was also like 70 years ago, China's last war was against Vietnam in the late 1970s)

[–] baaaaaaaaaaah@hexbear.net 78 points 2 weeks ago

a succulent chinese app

[–] baaaaaaaaaaah@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

As soon as you are on top, your behaviour might change.

It might, it might not. America's behavior didn't change; from the start they've been aggressive and expansionist, the scope just grew as they became more powerful.

China's been growing rapidly for decades while very seldomly acting militarily outside their borders. They don't seem to have expansionist goals outside those declared over 70 years ago (ie Taiwan) and have even negotiated down on border conflicts. It's not impossible but it'd be strange for China to make a complete about-turn on their stated policy of non-intervention.

[–] baaaaaaaaaaah@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The research, which involved three separate studies, found that TikTok users were exposed to significantly less content critical of China compared to users of other platforms like Instagram and YouTube.

Does this really imply that TikTok is manipulated to be pro-China, or that Instagram and Youtube are manipulated to be anti-China?

TikTok users tended to have more positive views of China’s human rights record and were more likely to consider China a desirable travel destination.

Also based on this line in particular, it seems like they're marking travel content as "pro-CCP", which is just nonsense. Xinjiang and Tibet are objectively beautiful, desirable, and popular tourist locations, and Tiananmen is literally the country's second most famous tourist site after the Great Wall. That's fact, not 'the party line'.

[–] baaaaaaaaaaah@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

Minutes before dropping the hardest track of 2025

[–] baaaaaaaaaaah@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

why's he got a pissflag on his hat?

[–] baaaaaaaaaaah@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

For sure, they were very active during the war, both covertly as you say, and more directly through the 8th Route Army.

[–] baaaaaaaaaaah@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The KMT did most of the heavy lifting because they governed almost the entire country while the CPC controlled a single, very poor province.

[–] baaaaaaaaaaah@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

They were an anti-Chiang faction that split during the late civil war and declared support for the CPC. They still exist on the mainland until this day.

There was also the left-right split before the war with Japan; after Sun Yatsen's death there were rival KMT governments with the rightists led by Chiang in Nanjing and a leftist government in Wuhan led by Wang Jingwei, though the latter folded and the party reunited until Wang became a traitor during the war and sided with Japan.

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