I consider China to be an enemy of the United States.
I am also an enemy of the United States.
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While Keywords are good for visibility, if you want to participate in the conversation you need to actually say something.
The majority of that age range still considers China an enemy, but a tiny fraction of ambivalent onlookers out of an overwhelming majority of a reflexively anti-China populace is enough for the Economist to dedicate an article to a fucking YouGov poll.
It’s just another pearl-clutching “what’s wrong with today’s youths” headline to panic the elderly while flattering compliant millennials/zoomers for being one of the few (despite still being the majority!) “good ones” that march goose-step with consensus Western political thought.
The fact that Taiwan isn’t mentioned in either the article or the referenced study speaks volumes.
Hong Kong and Taiwan are the primary opposition point for anti-CCP and represent Xi’s primary failures in soft power policy.
It’s kinda shocking too, since his predecessors were masters. 100 year strategy thrown in the sea for a dick measuring contest in one city.
Xi shat the bed 2012, and now everyone paying attention knows his government’s guarantee’s aren’t worth the paper and ink of printing.
Most US kids think Taiwan is another country. If China invades they will be the enemy.
I cannot view the article but from the graph it seems “young” means those aged 18-44. They should have been more granular here because variations within this range would have been interesting to see as well.
Further proof that Reddit and gamers aren’t the best representation of young people. Also really liking the fits that they’re wearing in the picture.
Redditors are mostly millennials and gen x anyways
Younger Americans will be friendly to any place that’ll put up with them when Trump wins
I visit China frequently for work and feel that the impression most older Americans have of China is incredibly out of touch. The traditional media portrayal of the country is definitely a part of this. Yes, it’s certainly an authoritarian state, but this doesn’t change whether the people are nice or what they want in life.
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And every functional family.
wait i have something relevant to say too…
All happy families are alike, all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way. — Anna Karenina
It is authoritarian to ask your children to go to bed on time
no I think it’s, um actually, only when parents tell their kids in china / s <— to indicate it’s sarcasm
Traffic lights in China is a sign that the CPC will go to extreme lengths to micro manage traffic and human movement.
Hahahaha let’s all ignore the “reeducation camps” and “social credit score” and pretend criticism of China is completely overblown I guess. Y’all really drank the Kool Aid.
I think it’s probably better to simply say that “authoritarian” is a buzzword, though your implied argument that all states work by exerting authority on (at least some portion of) their population is certainly true. Anyone who uses a term like “authoritarian” rather than even a marginally more-descriptive negative term like, idk, “bureaucratic” or “state capitalist” (which gets misused, but I digress) is immediately demonstrating themselves to have untrustworthy judgement on the topic
Fuck off hexbear
maybe bring back totalitarian and use it against countries like the US? have a word that, like Huey P. Newton said regarding coining the term ‘pig’ for police, “highlights the contradiction”, in this case, between the selective usage of a word and it’s inherent meaning, none of which is understandable without contradictions from a prescriptive linguistic context
You are probably right, I was really just trying to talk about how, as it currently stands, the people who use the term are basically just expressing either that they fell for a thought-terminating cliche or are expecting their audience to fall for it.
Authoritarianism was a bullshit term invented by child-fucker libertarians to frame themselves as being the good guys.
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I’ve been once for work. Didn’t have an issue with anyone there. I live in Australia now and a few of my friends are Chinese. In fact, I’ve had 2 Chinese really good friends / best friends
None of them agree with the government at all
Wasn’t part of the promise of economic globalization that increased interdependence would lead to less conflict? That a smaller, more connected world, would lead to intercultural communication and understanding, leading to a more stable international order?
I mean, wasn’t this supposed to be a feature? Why is it being reported as a bug?
We can be nice to Chinese people
But fuck the CCP. If this is about the youths’ friendliness towards the Chinese government, I wholly blame TikTok
Yeah, capitalist plutocratic murderous bastards
Isn’t it a general trend that younger people, on average, are less xenophobic / racist / bigoted than the previous generation? I also remember reading somewhere that younger Chinese people are friendlier to Japan, South Korea and the US than their parents.
, but at what cost?
Younger people increasingly get their news from social media, and they’re exposed to a more diverse set of news. Meanwhile, older people tend to primarily get their news from traditional media.
There’s a similar trend with support of Israel and Palestine https://www.axios.com/2023/10/26/generational-divide-on-the-israel-hamas-war
This shows just how propagandized traditional media is in the west.
The clash of clans
Also good to remember that digital media can be just as propogandized if you interact with it at a base level. Shopping around for a wide breadth of sources and opinions should be viewed as standard requirement for forming a more accurate sense of world events.
Completely agree, and I think it’s really valuable to see how events are being covered in different parts of the world.
Social media dominantly uses algorithms that fine-tune user feeds according to what they think will lead to highest engagement and end up becoming personalized echo chambers. They provide the exact opposite of “a more diverse set of news”.
Even with the algorithms tuning people’s feeds the diversity of information and views online is very clearly far higher than it is in traditional media where editors decide what content is published, and how it’s framed. You’re also using a platform that doesn’t use any algorithms to mess with the feed to write all this.
No CPC ever sold off my future to fund forever wars
My company has an office in China and I’ve been there many many times.
Chinese people are like all other people - same needs, same hopes and dreams, same fears, same drivers. In the city where our office is located, they are extremely hard working and want to ensure a better future for their family. Just like most American cities.
Their city is very high tech, moreso than many American cities because they skipped a lot of legacy technology.
They don’t necessarily subscribe to the same moral/value system as Americans, for example they often see copying each other’s ideas as a compliment whereas Americans see it as stealing. Kind of like - if it’s possible to copy, then it’s fair game - so don’t make it possible if you don’t want it copied. Perhaps that drives a different kind of innovation.
Obviously there are many more cultural differences. But as a people, we are all essentially working with the same needs.
All that being said I don’t appreciate the great firewall when I’mthere, the censorship, and the fear they have about discussing banned topics. I don’t appreciate the high-tech security cameras at every corner, or all the tracking of activities. The younger generations tolerate this for now because they are wealthier than their parents and told to cooperate, but that may not hold long term.
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