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Re:China’s Communist Party and Its American Media Enablers by rmrfstar on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:21AM (#23319943)
There's a monopoly angle here too [1].

I remember doing a face-palm when I watched "Gravity." The whole conflict centers around a cascade of space-junk caused by Russia shooting it's own spy satellite. In the movie, the Chinese space station saves the day. In reality, China actually shot down it's own satellite, rendering it's orbit and adjacent orbits unusable for the foreseeable future. [3]

I'm all for international cooperation, but we have to engage with reality.

[1] https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/its-time-to-break-up-disn...

[2] https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-bill-clinton-and-amer...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mi...

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Re:China’s Communist Party and Its American Media Enablers by myopenid on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:49AM (#23320108)
Lol. American movies also tend to romanticize the wars they wage.
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Re:China’s Communist Party and Its American Media Enablers by rmrfstar on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:54AM (#23320133)
Moxie gave a nice talk about American action movies [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOMiAeRwpPA

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Re:China’s Communist Party and Its American Media Enablers by MagnumOpus on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @07:47AM (#23321869)
Whataboutism, and false equivalence between movie makers distorting their own country's history (of which PRC is even more guilty than the US), and movie makers giving in to a foreign country's threats and whitewashing that country's crimes.
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Re:China’s Communist Party and Its American Media Enablers by myopenid on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:32PM (#23327720)
Consider it as a compliment that China thinks your propaganda is too potent for the Chinese population to handle.
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