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It's not so much China as it is Xi and his minions. There are 1.2 billion hostages under the control of Xi.
Just remember you're dealing with people who have bizarre logic. For example the Dali Lama is old and his new successor by tradition reincarnates. But China the PRC has demanded "that he must reincarnate, and on their terms." Now that's nuts.
You’re vastly underestimating how successful the CCP’s propaganda campaigns, censorship, and patriotic education have been. Actually, even without those, the CCP’s economic successes have earned it a lot of legitimacy (deserved or not). A more liberal successor to Xi might be able to nudge the ship to a slightly less nationalistic direction (a noticeably less hostile foreign policy) but I suspect a hypothetical liberalized China will take generations.
Remember media like Buzzfeed wants you to be enraged, it keeps you coming back for more.
In all of the above, someone has already beat you to it. You want to anger a country that is already under siege from terrorism, yet not angry enough to still want peace and trade with everyone. Making them angry might actually be quite hard. And I'm not sure I want to see them angry, because they would win a war of attrition if it came down to it.
A Buzzfeed article about a media company executive's business plan and content strategy made you angry, though. So angry you wanted to strike back--not at Apple or their executives--but at China, who are victims of Trump's trade war and growing hostile presence around it's land and sea borders.
I watched a Chinese film. A character, meek but incredible at mathematics and game theory, is lured into a game of life and death. He and some peers devise and plan to survive the game together, but he's betrayed and awaits execution while his friends survive off the game elements they shared (imagine casino chips or something). He manages to buy back into the game and then uses his strategic skills to save those who tried to have him killed so they could take their shared money. The film ends with the protagonist saying, "Maybe everyone only cares about themselves. But even if it seems crazy, I will help people no matter what. That's just how I am. Crazy."
You go ahead and try take some revenge on China because of Apple executives. For me, I'd rather consider the Chinese values revealed in that film, and in the actions and achievements of the nation over the past decades. Misplaced pettiness I do not see among them.
You seem a bit brainwashed, but the betraying part kinda nailed it in that Chinese movie.
That's a very weird POV for showing Chinese values, but it could be correct :)
Just not the way you anticipated it.
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Eg. How would Hong Kong, Tibet or Taiwan feel vs. China.
How would any foreigner feel in court if it was a Chinese vs foreigner there.
How would any neighbouring country feel vs. Their international waters occupied by China.
How do Western countries feel that, for 20 years, China is lying about one of their conditions for joining the WTO.
And how does someone feel just not agreeing with Xi, about his fellow Chinese citizen, getting doxed on social media, because of another way of thinking. Not everyone agrees though.
Ps. Yes, most are politics and Xi, but the social credit system is merging politics to citizens.
Here's a pic about some people not agreeing with your Chinese values:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dkxpoj/over_35000...
Reality vs a movie