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Re:Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China by DangitBobby on Sunday December 19, 2021 @04:05PM (#29618407)
Sounds like you've swallowed some propaganda yourself.

"The mean old world is just lying about China." Kind of incredible that literally the whole world is conspiring against the truly good natured China because... Reasons.

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Re:Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China by pphysch on Sunday December 19, 2021 @04:20PM (#29618532)
Please substantively challenge any of the facts I laid out.

> "The mean old world is just lying about China."

It is a literally a core theme of modernity. Opium Wars, Yellow Peril, anticommunist crusades in SEA... Chinese civilization is a historical threat to narratives of Anglo racial/cultural supremacy like nothing else.

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Re:Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China by DangitBobby on Sunday December 19, 2021 @06:30PM (#29619690)
My substantive rebuttal is to dismiss out of hand the idea of a global conspiracy to make the really good guy actually look like a bad guy.
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Re:Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China by pphysch on Sunday December 19, 2021 @10:15PM (#29621200)
Why do you insist it's a global conspiracy? I certainly don't think so.
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