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Re:Update on JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine by my_city on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @12:57PM (#33884289)
The people of China love their government. The federal government has a popularity of upwards 96% percent (https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-sur...). And for a good reason, they erradicated extreme poverty and provided unfathomable economic growth and prosperity to a nation of billions.

You are projecting your own western imperialistic illusions into the chinese people. The chinese love their government, are very nationalistic and proud of what they have acoomplished. The western media loves to blow up these stories to try to create cracks in the hard-rock solid unity of the chinese people.

Re:Update on JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine by mint2 on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @01:05PM (#33884427)
Conversely this Chinese government(?) viewpoint miss-interprets western values in that it’s possible to both be supportive of and critical/protest one’s government at the same time.

And actually it’s one’s civic duty to help improve the government. What country is perfect? It’s odd to say a country is perfect or because a government accomplished a lot in the pastcitizens should be content and stop expecting further improvements.

Re:Update on JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine by bennysonething on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @01:01PM (#33884356)
What is imperialist about that particular opinion?
Re:Update on JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine by my_city on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @01:04PM (#33884422)
Your hopes of destroying China and all of their accomplishments.
Re:Update on JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine by mint2 on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @01:12PM (#33884540)
Keep in mind that By posting such hyperbolic and unsupported statements, the other comments posted are viewed with the same level of credibility.
Re:Update on JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine by bilbyx on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @02:46PM (#33885963)
Brian Berletic from The New Atlas had already supported the claim that the US administration wanting to destablise and destroy China using official US government documents as evidence many times over. The truth is out in the open for all to find. The question is, do you want to know the truth.
Re:Update on JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine by mint2 on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @06:49PM (#33888775)
Yes and according to Russian investigative reporters, Ukraine has been proven to be run by nazis. The truth is out there open for all to find! The question is do you want to know the truth.

Are readers supposed to take name dropping of a random fringe guy from a fringe source to mean anything other than the original point should be taken even more skeptically.

Re:Update on JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine by Larrikin on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @01:12PM (#33884546)
You keep equating Chinese people, Chinese government, and Chinese history. Those three are not exactly the same thing, no matter how much Xi and the Communists try to push that ideology on the world.
Re:Update on JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine by bilbyx on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @02:38PM (#33885810)
lol. The Communist Party of China is made up of millions of Chinese, so how are the two not the same? And no, the Chinese government has never pushed its ideology onto the world, unlike the US.
Re:Update on JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine by mtnGoat on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @01:11PM (#33884521)
The millions of Uighur locked away love their government eh?

Probably only after the “re-education”.

Re:Update on JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine by dns_snek on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @11:31PM (#33890640)
This reads like run of the mill CCP propaganda. All the usual talking points are there - equating Chinese government with the Chinese people and implying that any criticism of the former is a criticism of the latter.

Quoting a survey from early 2020 is extremely disingenuous when trying to assess the people's satisfaction with the central government that has rapidly expanded their use of draconian authoritarian measures since the start of COVID pandemic.

The final clue lies in your suggestion that "the west is trying to crack 'unity' of the Chinese people" when the original comment is simply praising the Chinese people for their bravery as they try to get their freedoms back.