Correction:
" is evil because of "
should be
"[China/Russia/Iraq/or whoever is the current rival] is evil because of [genocide/cyber threat/WMD/or whatever FUD your government making up]"
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You misunderstood what I said.
Your problem is not in believing "your country is perfect" but in believing " is evil because of ". This is essentially negative marketing. Rather than pitching how perfect one is, one pitches how "worse" the rival is -- typical tactic you've seen in every US election but rarely notice when coming to the matters of geopolitical interests to the USA. And you have already succumbed to that. And I have shown you the evidences from the past behaviors of this country.
The Australians can't possibly believe the US government gives a damn about freedom of speech or the protection of journalists to publish, etc, etc.
The Australians are just as bad as Americans.
Our long term record on these issues has been better than the typical dictatorship but we have not been a shining beacon of light historically speaking and in recent years our government's behavior in this regard has been extremely shabby.
And the USA has a protracted history of fabricating, exaggerating accusations on its geopolitical rivals. (Sadly some of those "persecutions" are fabricated by money-seeking citizens of the said rivals.)
But none of these really matter, as long as Americans, like yourself, believe whatever horrible stories are told to them and that they support their "great" nation.
The US sanctions Chinese firms over the pretence of cybersecurity and industrial espinonage, even though the US is guity of both. Consequence: Chinese semiconductor equipment makers get the biggest boost and rainfall ever.
The US sanctions Russia by cutting off the SWIFT and trade over Ukraine War, despite the US has launched wars many times after WW2 and after Cold War and caused massive deaths. Consequence: USD is losing its monoply grip.
an unthinkable outcome during the Cultural Revolution when it was banned as a game of the decadent West.
While China has learned from the mistakes of Cultural Revolution and have liberalized its people from most aspects of life (*),
Russia's Sergey Karjakin, whom the international chess federation banned for his vocal support of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
the West is decaying in path of its own version of Cultural Revolution (**).
(*) of course, most media in the West would insist that China has absolutely no freedom and people believe so because they don't actually read real Chinese (social or traditional) media like this comment did; the reality is more like China has no absolute freedom -- indeed you would get less much trouble criticizing Xi Jinping than, for example, publicly voicing support for N-a-z-i in Europe or making racial slurs in the U.S.
(**) and especially in the light of the hypocrisy considering the West (NATO + USA) have launched the most wars and invaded numerous countries including Yugoslavia and Iraq since the end of WW2 and Cold War.
So you're justifying bullying behaviors like the bullies in the school playground. I'm also sure that you are OK with the planet being destroyed along with yourself and your family. That's the eventual consequence of bullying -- the bullied will go MAD.
Finally someone has a sense. I hope the US congress people can hear arguments along yours.
No way. It's against their political marketing mandate. The US political system is a "democratic" system. Therefore, the foremost thing for any politician to do in order to win the votes are to demonstrate their determination and "capability" prominently. There is nothing better than fabricating and hyping up a big enemy and take aggressive actions.
That doesn't make it wrong. States have sovereign privilege to do what is best for them, rather than care about interests of others. And they have a duty to their citizens to do what is best for them at the expense of others.
Hypocrisy and double standard while in the position of near monopoly amounts to bullying. The bullied will go mad. And if the bullied is a nuclear-capable country, it will go MAD.
And there are methods for interstate trade dispute resolution that can and likely will be utilized here by those that are hit by the US policy.
Such methods are killed by the US, another fine example of bullying.
The fact that you are pitching for American Exceptionalism as an excuse for hypocrisy (and getting so many mod ups) shows that Americans have finally remove their pretense of morality.
They're trying to fearmonger simply because these things are made in china
More likely they are just hypocrites and pathological liars.
And if you insist to find an article on this topic by a western institution, here is one from the same search: British Media Gives Attention to the Construction of Chinese Social Credit System -- It Makes People Lost Credit Hard to Travel An Inch. It is the republishing of content of that article, like those on SlashDot. I will leave it you to figure out which this British media outlet is. Hint: it is written in that page in Chinese.
Read your own words:
an article like Yang's to be published anywhere in their country,
You said "article like Yang's" not "articles by Western foreigners like Yang".
Yang is a foreign national pushing Chinese propaganda about a social credit system in the US
Neither there's anything indicating this author is trying to do that. He is raising more/remaining concerns about the Chinese system.
China would never permit an article like Yang's to be published anywhere in their country, and certainly not attached to the name of one of their leading universities.
Except that your claim is not even true, this is search of social credit abuse in Toutiao the leading online news aggregator run by TikTok parent ByteDance. Let me translate the titles of some of these articles and their publishers/writers:
You see. From individuals to Chinese government "mouthpiece" have voiced concerns and criticism of the abuses in the credit score system.
Learn Chinese and actually read sufficient news published within China before you make any point about China. Don't just parrot Western propaganda.
The problem is that those laws are ignored to protect the apparatus of the state, despite the illegality.
While this statement is true, such laws, if enforced to the spirits, will only protect the rights of ordinary US citizens; it won't allow US crimes done to the world to be exposed. The problem is that most US crimes, done as the whole nation, are on the international arena. State sponsored(*) domestic crimes by the federal government were mostly done before the 1960s civil right movement.
* There are of course on-going police crimes on citizens, especially the blacks, but they are endless loopholes rather than fully state sponsored.
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