This post needs to be higher in the list. Everyone that the CCP deputizes as one of their spies needs to have their nose held to this shit.
All because I said China should be regarded by the West as an enemy/hostile state. Hell, it's the one thing I can side with the current administration on.
To me China is not much different than pre-WWII Germany: over-the-top authoritarian, has ambitions to influence the direction of things at the world stage, and is currently scapegoating an ethnic minority and putting them in concentration camps.
That wasn't the first time I tried bringing those things up in a group setting. In other occasions I was only met with awkward silence too. Feels like there's some subtle but insane denial going on.
Sadly if there were any Chinese team members that heard you and took offense, you could have been reported as saying racist things in the workplace.
This is what is silencing people and politicians from speaking the truth on China and other oppressive governments.
Maybe EU, USA, Canada, India, Israel, Japan vs China, Russia, N. Korea, Iran, Saudia Arabia?
Except there's some racism/xenophobia between Russia, Islam, China, so maybe not...
But a lot of those places lack water, so that could be motivating factor for more strife, and ignite border clashes, and we might pick sides and others pick their sides and before long it's everywhere and everyone fighting.
As for EU vs Russia - you really think the EU is that suicidal? It would be nuked into oblivion in a matter of minutes.
As for water. Two of thee largest nuke holders are the US and Russia. The US has Canada whth the largest reserves of water. Russia has plenty of it as well. So you think either is going to be attacked by any country for water?
(Why was this statement made? This is a country that does not like criticism, and the routinely will try to stop it.)