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I tried raising awareness about China's bullshit at work once, and was met with awkward silence and was later told in private that I came off as ignorant/immature.

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.

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We’ve reached a sad state where any criticism of a non-white country or government is regarded as “racist” or “xenophobic.”

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.

Sadly this is the deepest racism in some of the western white people to china, admit it or not, that's the try.

With the business world's dependency on China for cheap manufacturing, I am not surprised one bit. I feel like China has been trying to sink its cultural claws in us for a while... why else is seemingly every business always celebrating Chinese new year every year? I feel like the number of lunar new year celebrations have increased dramatically in the past 5 years

Honestly, I see us heading towards a world war... w/ water becoming precious commodity - I can't see who's gonna win, or even what the pairings might be...

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.

Saudi Arabia is currently on the side of Israel rather than Iran. China and Russia were never friends.

Russia, China and Saudi Arabia are not friends. Why would they ever pair militarily is beyond my comprehension. Saudi Arabia is armed by the west btw.

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?

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