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Re:The US says Chinese spies are targeting Boston for its te... by sandworm101 on Monday April 08, 2019 @12:22PM (#19606610)
Yup. An article is only on part of any media campaign. I think it also safe to assume this HN discussion is being cataloged, if not actively manipulated, by those who created this article.
Re:The US says Chinese spies are targeting Boston for its te... by alanwong on Monday April 08, 2019 @12:31PM (#19606701)
I created the article! Trust me when I say I'm not cataloging this discussion or actively manipulating it.

(EDIT: deleted "with my colleagues" because another commenter says it sounds like something other than reporters working with editors to put out an article.)

Re:The US says Chinese spies are targeting Boston for its te... by sandworm101 on Monday April 08, 2019 @02:07PM (#19607571)
>> I created the article! Trust me when I say I'm not cataloging this discussion or actively manipulating it.

I don't see any version of "alanwong" on the article. We have a political piece written by a journal/website/news source that is apparently owned by a Chinese company and authored by a woman named "Viola Zhou". Now we have someone calling themselves "alanwong" claiming to have created the article but whose name appears nowhere on said article. This looks like team effort to me, a badly executed one.

(Alanwong claims to be the editor, not author, but I don't see the editor listed on the website)

Re:The US says Chinese spies are targeting Boston for its te... by alanwong on Monday April 08, 2019 @07:20PM (#19610122)
Few sites list editors of an individual article these days. Here's my author page. https://www.inkstonenews.com/author/alan-wong-0 My role is also listed in my hackernews profile. Try searching my name and Inkstone. You'll find me and my relations with Inkstone. It's all one search away.
Re:The US says Chinese spies are targeting Boston for its te... by bilbo0s on Monday April 08, 2019 @12:37PM (#19606753)
>I'm not cataloging this discussion or actively manipulating it...

???

You just did.

I know that likely read like I was trying to be snarky, but I wasn't.

Re:The US says Chinese spies are targeting Boston for its te... by alanwong on Monday April 08, 2019 @12:48PM (#19606837)
No I don't find you snarky. I'm just confused. Are you saying that by engaging in a discussion about an article I posted in an online forum I'm "cataloging" and "actively manipulating" it? Am I "cataloging" a discussion if I tweet an article and reply to the responses? Am I "actively manipulating" a Reddit discussion if I post a link on the site and... respond to the comments? I've been doing both my whole career.
Re:The US says Chinese spies are targeting Boston for its te... by DataWorker on Monday April 08, 2019 @01:01PM (#19606961)
“You and your colleagues” makes it sound like you have a comment crew.
Re:The US says Chinese spies are targeting Boston for its te... by alanwong on Monday April 08, 2019 @01:15PM (#19607091)
Thanks. A reply button wasn't available until just now, so I had edited my original comment and added a note.
Re:The US says Chinese spies are targeting Boston for its te... by NicoJuicy on Monday April 08, 2019 @06:37PM (#19609781)
Well, I only trust a news agency that would also report about the people in captivity there ( a couple of million Muslims).

Or about the digital credit system.

Or about claiming international waters.

Or about the countries that won't be able to pay back the investments of the one-road. Where locals don't get any benefits from.

Or that the worldwide loans to other countries make it clear that china is not a developing country anymore.

What's the chance of that?

( Sorry, but I'm more worried since I know China is actively sponsoring pro-China news agencies close to home ( Londen)). The sooner it fails, the better.

And no, it's not personal against you. It is however personal against me ( manipulating news close to home).

And Xi is pretty smart and hard-working. He is going for the long/slow haul, it's not what he's doing now, it's what he can do tomorrow.

What I see now, is what I thought it would be. He is waiting till Trump is gone, because he will be in charge longer.

Re:The US says Chinese spies are targeting Boston for its te... by bilbo0s on Monday April 08, 2019 @07:44PM (#19610277)
Then you want the American propaganda.

We've got plenty of that on CNN and FOX.

No need to go all the way out to China to get your fix. And the Chinese will likely be serving up Chinese propaganda anyway. If you want American propaganda, why not just consume it here in America?

Re:The US says Chinese spies are targeting Boston for its te... by alanwong on Monday April 08, 2019 @07:32PM (#19610205)
Inkstone is Hong Kong-based and independent. We're only a little more than one year old but have published countless stories about all of the topics you mentioned. I'll give you a few examples, below. Try searching the site with site:inkstonenews.com if you want more.

> Well, I only trust a news agency that would also report about the people in captivity there ( a couple of million Muslims).

The two most recent pieces on Xinjiang:

US lawmakers want this man punished over China’s treatment of Muslims https://www.inkstonenews.com/politics/us-lawmakers-urge-sanc...

US condemns Muslim camps that China calls ‘boarding schools’ https://www.inkstonenews.com/politics/us-highlights-mass-det...

> Or about the digital credit system. ‘Worse than doing time’: life on the wrong side of China’s social credit system https://www.inkstonenews.com/china/chinas-13-million-discred... Got bad social credit? Your son isn’t going to college https://www.inkstonenews.com/society/chinas-social-credit-sy...

Re:The US says Chinese spies are targeting Boston for its te... by NicoJuicy on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @02:30PM (#19617624)
Thanks for the heads-up/correction