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Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by DevKoala on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:56AM (#30074239)
I do. Highly effective propaganda has associated the facts around Chinese trade secret stealing with claims of racism and general xenophobia. As a result, now you have plenty of individuals all over the world whose moral compass pushes them to ignore the facts around trade secret stealing and even go dispute them in online conversations.
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Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by aaronblohowiak on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @12:43PM (#30075031)
To look beyond the rhetoric, we can see how smart rich people are acting in their self interest, (presumably the profit motive generally trumps identity politics) and there are very very numerous cases of avoiding ip leakage to PRC while being very comfortable with RoC, challenging the racial or xenophobic explanation in your post.
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Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by tbihl on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @12:43PM (#30075013)
Explain further, please. Your response doesn't answer the question; I can't decide if it's deliberate obfuscation through scary words or an complete misunderstanding of what is being asked.
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Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by coupdejarnac on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:41PM (#30076950)
Just go on to reddit, and you'll find lots of people defending China against what they think is a smear campaign. Lots of these people appear to be young westerners who have bought into China's propaganda.
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Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by spoonjim on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @12:44PM (#30075052)
China is using the US’s Christian sensibilities (charity, forgiveness, etc) against them.
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Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by seneca on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:27PM (#30075797)
I don't know that it's Christian sensibilities so much as a political view extremely susceptible to this sort of shrewd manipulation. As the person you're responding to said, the smoke screen is to cast criticism of China as racist or xenophobic. They even have a term, "baizuo", to mock this concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baizuo

In general you're right though. They are very successful at using weaknesses against us.

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Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by president on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:50PM (#30076163)
This is true. Growing up in an immigrant community (and as a minority myself), I would always hear people mock how open and trusting Americans were and how Americans were easily cheated. Anything involving the honor code would usually be violated.
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