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Re:Lenovo: Companies working in China may have to install lo... by snaky on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @05:36PM (#18027905)
> As China vies for world hegemony

China is not going to export their political system beyond the HK and Taiwan, unlike the US.

> the country intervening in most foreign elections is the United States with 81 interventions, from 1946 to 2000

Re:Lenovo: Companies working in China may have to install lo... by sushid on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @07:54PM (#18028605)
You forget China's intervention in the Korean War/North Korea. They've also annexed Tibet and killed/arrested dissidents since the 50s.

It's a case of which is the lesser evil. US's style of "imposing" democracy (and toppling it and replacing the government with puppets when it become socialist and/or unfavorable for US corporations) or Chinese totalitarianism.

Re:Lenovo: Companies working in China may have to install lo... by iforgotpassword on Thursday September 20, 2018 @02:54AM (#18030295)
> You forget China's intervention in the Korean War/North Korea.

Unlike the USA? So if China came along bombing the shit out of mexico, you'd expect the US to sit on their hands?

> They've also annexed Tibet

Annexed is hardly the right word. Tibet was part of China for centuries, they regained power after a brief period of independence. It's well within reasonable to disapprove of that, but putting it like China just conquered that totally different country that it had no relations with before is just wrong.

Same with Taiwan. To China it's a province where the government has been taken over by separatists, so why should they just give it up? Western media conveniently never mentions this so again in the minds of people Taiwan is just this country that has existed forever and is now attacked by the evil Chinese. Just pull up a list of countries which do and don't regard Taiwan as its own sovereign country and not part of China.