The hatred of China in Western media is amplified to the max. Sometimes I think we're the ones being washed.

> The hatred of China in Western media

That’s a very broad brush. I can see why you might say that about US media, but can you justify saying that about “Western” media?

Brit here, and we are being spoonfed plenty of anti-Chinese FUD by the mass media too, although certainly not to the same extent as in the US. Corona virus hasn't helped, with plenty idiots blaming China and even calling for revenge. As usual, it's anything to detract from problems closer to home.

I work with colleagues in multiple European countries, and have had this conversation - similar anti-Chinese sentiment appears to be being spread in Spain, Norway, Sweden, France and others.

Whenever the US picks a boogeyman de jour, Europe is often not too far behind, but always to a lesser extent.

Yes. Frankly I’m surprised the CCP influence on Reddit is not very visible.

Tik Tok scares me quite a bit more though.

not visible, been recently to r/worldnews ? everything criticisng China downvoted into oblivion if not straight deleted/banned

Occam's razor says this is bots rather than anything being done via "official" Reddit channels.

That's a defining feature of "plausible deniability."

It's unfortunate that HN is still plagued with posts like this (and worse) about "Chinese", "China", "CCP" or even "MSS" that would (I hope) not be tolerated for one second if the words were, say, "Jewish", "Israel", "Zionist" or "Mossad".