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Re:The Chinese Communist Party Is Setting Up Cells at Univer... by iamnothere on Thursday April 19, 2018 @09:11AM (#16875604)
Not that I approve of China's approach here, but the use of the word "cells" in the title is blatant scaremongering.

Consider a hypothetical title like "The Democratic Party Is Setting Up Cells in Alabama" and it becomes more obvious.

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Re:The Chinese Communist Party Is Setting Up Cells at Univer... by DanAndersen on Thursday April 19, 2018 @11:48AM (#16876873)
On one level I agree with you -- it's reminiscent of a recent laughable New Yorker piece calling the presence of a Chick-fil-A in NYC an "infiltration": https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/chick...

On the other hand, the presence of a domestic political party is a fundamentally different thing from the presence of a foreign entity working inside a sovereign entity like a state. Both the Republican and Democratic parties at least claim loyalty to the American people and its government and alignment with their interests.

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