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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by patrickaljord on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:43PM (#23838994)
As someone who has family in Syria that was bombed by US and their allies but had never been bombed by China, I'd rather China be spying on me. As far as I know, CCP has never attacked any country out of its borders.
Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by wolco on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:01PM (#23839152)
If you are in America from Syria and have a dislike for America because of past bombings I would be more concerned with them over China.

As far as never attacked anyone. Of course they have. China is part of that US allies group fighting terrorism in your families homeland. Here is a list for you of all of the conflicts:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_P...

Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by DiogenesKynikos on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:02PM (#23839644)
Those are almost all internal conflicts within China. The only major foreign wars China has been involved in since the founding of the PRC are the Korean War, the Sino-Indian border conflict, and the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese war. It's been more than 40 years since China was involved in a major foreign conflict.
Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by NicoJuicy on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @02:50PM (#23849857)
I thought China had a lot of border conflicts.

https://www.indiatvnews.com/fyi/india-china-border-dispute-w...

Looking some of them up seperatly, the article seems correct.

Stating border conflicts with 18 countries

Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by DiogenesKynikos on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @06:00PM (#23852655)
It has border disputes, but it hasn't been involved in any major military conflict since 1979.

Most (probably all) countries in South and East Asia have multiple border disputes. Japan has disputes with China, Russia and South Korea. India has disputes with Pakistan, China and Nepal, and used to have disputes with Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. See a trend? Every major country in the region has or has had disputes with every neighboring country.

Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by wolco on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:11PM (#23839717)
They are part of the war on terror. However you classify that it has been the major conflict over the last 20 years.
Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by DiogenesKynikos on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:02AM (#23842161)
Which Chinese military operations are you referring to?
Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by patrickaljord on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:56PM (#23839597)
I am not in America so your argument is not valid.

As for your link, most of it is about peace keeping missions. The others involve countries that share a border with China. As I said, China has for the most part never attacked countries it didn't share borders with and I don't live in any of these. Even then, they haven't done carpet bombing, used chemical or nuclear weapons against these countries unlike the US.

Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by lummm on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:51AM (#23845191)
I think the use of government surveillance is less likely to be used to conduct drone strikes and far more likely to prompt a Tiananmen square esque response to dissent. Thus I would firmly disagree with this sentiment.