Nice to see Glen Greenwald has pushed the general media to finally at least mention or talk about Hunter Biden's insanely sketchy activity with the chinese.
It should be more obvious than ever that china is NOT our friend.
It should be more obvious than ever that china is NOT our friend.
Wait, why wouldn't that make sense?
The Chinese elected the CCP.
Beyond some rhetorical nonsense meant to soothe your feelings of guilt, shame, morality etc when urging for what will be a second Cold War, there is no practical difference between criticizing, railing against, calling for mass murder against, calling for its extinction, of the Chinese, the CCP, or China.
Whatever real world practical effects that happen on the world when criticizing each of those entities will be the exact same.
I still have friends from china and friends here in the US who I went to college with. I fear for their ability to speak freely and have a place in our modern world without being hampered by the heinous actions of a racist and sociopathic regime.
At the same time, when you're having a conversation about this sort of thing, it helps to be precise so that there aren't misunderstandings, which is why I pointed this out.
That the country is "very clearly ran by the CCP" may be mostly true but does not mean that there's no national identity, culture, shared history, etc. which are not fully encompassed by the party.
People conflate these sorts of things with varying degrees of intention. This causes harm, even if it isn’t intended (and often, it is).
When we lose nuance in our speech, our ability to understand each other diminishes.