Could somebody explain to me the vicious American hate for China from a totally uninformed viewpoint? Any links to read why I should also dislike China?
Nationalistic flamebait is not ok on HN. Would you please stop posting that, and political flamebait in general, so we don't have to ban you again?
China is emerging geopolitical rival (balance) to the US (and the West in general).
Mainstream US media is great at amplifying US govt propaganda and publishing hit pieces on US rivals (see media portrayals of Soviet Union during the Cold war as an example: https://www.e-ir.info/2013/10/26/the-role-of-the-media-durin... ) or of Japan during the 80s (see https://spice.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/japan_in_the_us_press_bi...).
The same is happening against China now and there is an effort to shame anyone with contacts with China.
There was a great look at American 'propaganda' in one of the China in Africa podcast where they were debating whether Voice of America is American propaganda. I think their specific debate was about the term collateral debt in relation to the infrastructure projects China has undertaken in Africa and the agreements that support them. It really helped me see that while the term is still sharply defined when speaking about "other" nation's propaganda, American's have a very difficult time extracting ideas which were put out by the American government and picked up as talking points by the media.
I don't know if propaganda is still the correct term anymore, but it at least feels like group think, which worries me.
[1] https://econofact.org/what-is-the-problem-of-forced-technolo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps
https://www.france24.com/en/20190510-reporters-plus-survivin...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-...
From a purely tech perspective, state-sponsored hacking[5] and IP theft[6] are common.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_China
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps
[3] https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2018/country-chapters/china...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
[5] https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/state-hacking-1220201...
[6] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/28/1-in-5-companies-say-china-s...
This judgement coming from the country with the highest incarceration rate, criminalized abortion, caged immigrants, historic systematic racism, legal bribery (lobbying), genrrymandering electoral system, countless invasions with disastrous results in the middle east, africa & asia
Don't get me wrong but outside the US everyone is wondering what is the moral high ground?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism#Criticism
Others have criticized the usage of accusations of whataboutism by American news outlets, arguing that the accusation whataboutism has been used to simply "deflect" criticisms of human rights abuses perpetrated by the United States or its allies.
They argue that the usage of the term almost exclusively by American outlets is a double standard, and that moral accusations made by powerful countries are merely a pretext to punish their geopolitical rivals in the face of their own wrongdoing.
In fact, invoking 'whataboutism' in the way you have done is a misuse and a deliberate attempt to deflect.