Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event

Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by rayiner on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:18PM (#21265132)

These incidents are making me reevaluate my views on the Cold War. Growing up after the Cold War was over, I always thought the domestic reaction (in the US) to the Soviet Union and Communism was overblown. Of course, growing up during the 1990s boom, it was inconceivable to me that any foreign country could have the slightest negative impact on me, or that there was any possibility that the future offered anything other than the American way of life for more and more people.

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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by notyourday on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:22PM (#21265178)

The difference is that the USSR was a small market, so it was possible to crush it economically, which is what the West did.

This time around China is looking to become the largest market and if we let it to become one before China sheds its "communism with Chinese characteristics", it will crush the West.

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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by erentz on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:28PM (#21265232)

And in large part that is due to our different approach to China. Opening up trade with China enabled its economy to reach the level it did today. In part [0] the minds thought trade would bring liberalization in China. But that didn’t happen, it’s quite a thing to walk back now but clearly it needs to happen. Unfortunately the politics of the US and EU are in absolute disarray so coordinating that is difficult to imagine.

([0] In another part forming relationships with China was also in part about putting a wedge between China and the USSR. Which may have been more productive but doesn’t explain the normal relationship since 1990.)

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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by birdyrooster on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:44PM (#21265389)

The Communist Party is selling out the future of the Chinese people for its own security. The world will not continue to subsidize China now that they have removed their mask. The monoculture they are building lacks the social tools necessary to compete on the global stage without external assistance and the west knows it.

There has been a lot of handwringing over China becoming the new global super power but what we seem to have instead is a repeat of North Korea but on much greater scale.

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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by rayiner on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:34PM (#21265290)

> This time around China is looking to become the largest market and if we let it to become one before China sheds its "communism with Chinese characteristics", it will crush the West.

If China can shed Communism and compete with the West as a free society, then more power to it. It might hurt American pride a bit, but the U.K. seems to have managed...

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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by sodosopa on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:38PM (#21265329)

> but the U.K. seems to have managed...

Except for that Brexit conundrum.

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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by jacquesm on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:20PM (#21265158)

Pity you didn't spend any time behind the Iron Curtain when it was still up. Formative experience if there ever was one for me.

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Re:Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event by rayiner on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:31PM (#21265270)

I'm from, and lived in, Bangladesh, which was also formative. At the time, we saw America as the future for Bangladesh too. The resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism as a competitor to Westernization (in its Anglo-American form) came as a total shock. At least to my family. For the same reason I find China's Belt and Road initiative deeply disquieting.

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