Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment
by kmeisthax on Friday December 17, 2021 @04:41PM
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China is banking on the hunch that it's impossible to rhetorically separate "China" and "Chinese", and that western powers or their citizens will fuck up and engage in hate crimes or war crimes that...
1. Unify the country around the People's Republic of China generally, and Xi Jinping specifically
2. Damage or destroy any alliances with western powers that China's neighbors might have
The absolute worst thing we can do right now is knee-jerk our way into blowback, and a lot of the reaction here seems to be that we should. In fact, I even read a report[0] stating that a lot of the recent government attempts to fish out Chinese spies have devolved into fishing expeditions against Chinese grad students in America. I'm tempted to say we're doing it wrong, but it could also be the case that we're just making the least-worst mistakes right now.
1. Unify the country around the People's Republic of China generally, and Xi Jinping specifically
2. Damage or destroy any alliances with western powers that China's neighbors might have
The absolute worst thing we can do right now is knee-jerk our way into blowback, and a lot of the reaction here seems to be that we should. In fact, I even read a report[0] stating that a lot of the recent government attempts to fish out Chinese spies have devolved into fishing expeditions against Chinese grad students in America. I'm tempted to say we're doing it wrong, but it could also be the case that we're just making the least-worst mistakes right now.
[0] which I absolutely wish I could find!