Your argument contains several claims that are not supported by the historical evidence.

There was a violent crackdown in Beijing in June 1989. This is documented by eyewitnesses, journalists who were present, diplomats, hospital workers, declassified government documents from multiple countries, and later research. While the exact death toll is disputed, there is broad agreement among historians that hundreds, and possibly more than a thousand, people were killed when the Chinese military used live ammunition and armored vehicles to clear protesters and bystanders.

The protests did not begin as a violent uprising. They started as largely peaceful demonstrations calling for political reform, freedom of speech, government accountability, and action against corruption. In the final hours, some protesters and residents did fight back by throwing rocks, setting military vehicles on fire, and attacking soldiers after troops advanced into the city. That does not change the fact that the military used overwhelming lethal force against civilians.

There is no credible evidence that the Chinese government deliberately recruited ethnic minorities because they "hate Han Chinese." The People's Liberation Army is a national military whose units are drawn from across China. Claims that the crackdown relied on ethnic groups chosen because they were hostile to Han Chinese are not supported by credible historical sources.

The claim about mandatory two-year programs for all ethnic groups is inaccurate. China has implemented various education, labor, and relocation policies affecting different ethnic minorities, especially Uyghurs in Xinjiang, but these policies were not introduced as a response to Tiananmen Square. Researchers generally view those policies as part of the Chinese government's broader strategy of political control and assimilation rather than a measure to prevent another Tiananmen.

Finally, dismissing the Tiananmen Square crackdown by comparing it to other events doesn't address the historical record. Serious discussions should rely on evidence from contemporaneous reporting, archival documents, eyewitness testimony, and academic research, not egotistical, unsupported assertions from the Chinese Communist Party point of view.

Ok, you're a Chinese shill. Tell me, what's your official stance on the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre? Got any opinions on that? What to talk in depth about it? Or, are you mysteriously going to go silent now that I mentioned it?

I'm betting you go silent. That's because China isn't a free society. You're not allowed to talk about it.

Xi Jinping, as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and President of China, holds ultimate power as paramount leader. His authoritarian rule is a dictatorship due to his unchecked authority.

Oh my god, this is laugh out loud funny. There's a reason there's "basically no violent crime." It's a communist dictatorship. Dictators love to highlight the law and order in their countries. That's what you promote when people have no freedom.

If you think America is unwelcoming to foreigners, then you're living a completely sheltered life. Trump and MAGA are a temporary problem that will disappear in 2 years. America is still the most welcoming country in the world to foreigners. Go to China. See what life is like in comparison to the US. See what life is like in comparison to Berkeley, California. Note the difference in how everyday people treat you. And yes, there's going to be a difference between the Bay Area in California and China.

I just hope that the judge sanctions Xinuos's legal team into oblivion. Given all that has gone before, it should be easy to establish bad faith on their part. Not to mention that kicking a sleeping wolverine (IBM) is unlikely to be ... wise.

Sure, just go upstairs and let me know how that works out for you.

If a hundred million employees are effected, we're talking $5 per employee. This program is starting woefully underfunded.

I like Krypto. However, this is the second movie in a row where he features as a key part of the plot. Like, find something else to drive the story. Please. Let the dog be an interesting side character.

Supergirl’s plot involves getting a poison antidote hanging around an evil character’s neck. She fights this evil character multiple times and could take the antidote at any point. Of course, she doesn’t because that’d be the end of the movie. The end result is that this plot point gets dragged out for no particular reason.

Other points make no sense. There’s only 2 Kryptonians left. But, evidently they’re so well known across the galaxy that everyone knows their weaknesses.

No, of course a broken spar is A Very Bad Thing when it happens in midair.

Is this changing-the-timing-chains-in-an-Audi difficult, or is this replacing-your-spinal-cord-without-killing-you impossible?

Are these planes repairable? I think it's a reasonable question.

(Of course, with the Audi, if has anything more than a loose gas cap it's not economically feasible to repair, but that's what you get with European engineering.)

Woah... Dumb question, but would a wing spar be repairable or replaceable?

Your comment completely ignores the previous one. In a communist society, companies and the government are one entity. They are the same. That is fundamentally different from how companies and government works in capitalist societies.

China is a communist country. That's a whole other level of government involvement in the economy and specific companies such as Alibaba than you'll find anywhere in the US.

Any other software company facing a similar order would have immediately sent a lawyer to court to file an injunction to block the order. The fact that Anthropic immediately rolled over tells us that on some level, they wanted this government action. They literally didn't object to it.

WTF are you talking about? Seattle is doing so much business that our taxes fund the rest of the state, including eastern Washington. You can talk when you start paying for your own infrastructure. Until then, politely STFU about Seattle business.