Re:A $7 Credit Limit: Jack Ma’s Ant Lures Hundreds of Millio...
by throwaway1997 on Monday December 09, 2019 @12:17AM
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The author of the article is called Yifan Xie. I don't think it's anti-china propaganda.
Re:A $7 Credit Limit: Jack Ma’s Ant Lures Hundreds of Millio...
by sdrothrock on Monday December 09, 2019 @12:38AM
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I don't have anything to say about whether or not the article is anti-China propaganda, but I just wanted to address this comment because there's some underlying assumptions being made here about names and ethnicity.
In this day and age, I don't think a name is guaranteed to tell you much about a person. It's a bit fallacious to say "she has a Chinese name, so she's probably not against China."
She could be from Taiwan or Hong Kong, both of which have plenty of reasons not to like China. She could also have been born and raised by Chinese, Taiwanese, or Hong Kong parents in any other country.
I have an incredibly "white" name, but I'm ethnically Korean. I know I'm an outlier, but it gives me first-hand knowledge that using names to assume things about people's ethnicity (and from that, their beliefs) is not a good tactic.
Re:A $7 Credit Limit: Jack Ma’s Ant Lures Hundreds of Millio...
by baot on Monday December 09, 2019 @04:21AM
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She lives in Hong Kong.
Re:A $7 Credit Limit: Jack Ma’s Ant Lures Hundreds of Millio...
by throwaway1997 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @03:34AM
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Yes, there are many mainland Chinese living in Hong Kong.
It's even worse when it comes to international news. How many times has china "conquered the middle east" or "colonized africa"? A lot more than you think if you follow the news.
"China's latest conquest: Middle East power broker - commentary"
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/28/chinas-latest-conquest-middl...
China is "colonizing" africa.
"China raises fears of 'new colonialism' with $60 billion..."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/03/china-invest-60-...
When we actually invade and conquer the middle east, the media portrays it as "bringing freedom". When we actually colonize africa, the media portrays it as "aid".
Of course it isn't just the west spreading propaganda, china does it also. It's why it comes to geopolitical or controversial events, you need a wide variety propaganda to get as honest an assessment as possible because every side lies about something and is honest about other things.