would you classify Tencent on the same level as Huawei? And if so, does that mean most American youth are plugged into League Of Legends & Fortnite, a Chinese Surveillance system ? lol
Remember all those other generations of people living in crazy societies with crazy ideas? People's values, behaviors and loyalties are basically imprinted on them during childhood. There is an Einstein quote where he talks about how 'most people can't even form their own opinions' and he is right.
QED
Pretty much Nietzsche was the only guy who said you could make your own values.
Tencent is co-producing the Top Gun sequel, and Maverick's jacket no longer has either the Japanese or Taiwanese flags on the back:
* https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a28479683/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gun:_Maverick
> Maybe it’s not as great as a nuke, but China can use popular video games to raise the next generation of kids to be more friendly to China.
K-pop seems to be helping Korea:
* https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/2/16/16915672/what-is-kpop-...
Though they're not a totalitarian state. I think if people get too friendly or sympathetic a couple of articles will bring reality back:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests
K-pop is increasing South Korea's power worldwide, although it might not be a fair comparison since SK is not a totalitarian state like China. If people get too friendly with China we will eventually be reminded of China's bad track record with human rights.
Do you see how meaningless this type of argument is?
Also known as the Japan strategy. Many have tried to emulate it, it’s very hard.
It's the appearance of an organizing that is really taboo. Of course please take my opinion with a grain of salt. I am a foreigner who was there less than a year.
advchina/serpentza/laowhy86 are the canaries in the coalmine atm.
Sure:
How about a look at Reporters without borders, which ranks press freedom:
US #48 (behind Botswana, Child and Romania)
China #177 (of 180, so only ahead of Eritrea, NK and Turkmenistan)
Or this HRW report will be an interestjng read: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/unite...
We have to remember there are two justice systems in this country and re-introducing slavery through the prison industrial complex was something we deliberately did without good reason.... not in response to dangerous extremism like in China.
This is a fundamental difference (and yes, America has detained people indefinitely without trial, but I would condemn that _too_, and they are a small minority of prisoners).
Furthermore, there are ~2.3 million _people_ in prison, of which 40% are black (39% white, 19% Hispanic).
Here's a major presidential candidate on the topic:
China has no freedom of speech, the press, religion, or assembly.
Also, is there a firewall that prevents you from accessing portions of the internet your government doesn't want you to see?
(I've never been to China but this is what seems to be reported.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/93f04k/just_found_o...
By that premise, Norway controls Microsoft and Apple because they own part of the companies via their sovereign fund. Microsoft by itself of course is worth as much as Norway's entire fund.
Snapchat is a publicly traded company, of which institutional money representing primarily US investors controls the dominant position in the company.
Reddit is minority owned by Tencent, they hold a small share of the company. If you own 5% of a company the size of Reddit, you have close to zero control over the company.
Tencent also does not own a controlling interest in Epic. Tim Sweeney all by himself is estimated to control more of Epic than Tencent does.
Even so, Norway's political/ideological/moral objectives are in line with the west's. There is a difference between the Norwegians having some influence in something, as opposed to the Chinese.
While there may not be a grand conspiracy, it isn’t too far-fetched to suggest that organizations that specialize in espionage, sabotage and propaganda can figure out, or may already have figured out, how to pull the various levers at their disposal to achieve their goals.