Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
by kortilla on Friday August 07, 2020 @03:02PM
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History has shown that countries can suppress dissidents for hundreds of years. This current rendition of the Chinese government could easily survive decades while suppressing criticism (which they obviously do).
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days
by chrischen on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:25PM
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So you are justifying American imperialism in "helping countries along" by forcibly collapsing unfavorable regimes?
If only the US motives were actually that altruistic, but in reality US intervention in foreign regimes were mostly to protect its interests rather than any actual ideals.