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It's nuts seeing how aggressive the anti-China sentiment online has gotten in the last 2-3 years.

Particularly the insinuation in this case when the research is published and the source is on Github.

It's gotten so bad that I actively avoid clicking any HN links with possible connections to China since I know a large portion of the comments will contain nonrelevant arguments along the lines of "China bad". On the bad astroturfing days I can't tell HN and Reddit apart.

What's nuts to me is that you're surprised.

Anybody looking at the history of its country would be surprised of what happened... Slavery, dictatorship, witch hunts, nuclear weapons, torture, oppression, state wide corruption, genocides,... China certainly is no better than anyone else and probably not worse either.

Just some casual jingoism to get the day going. Even questioning it, gets you a grey comment, the irony is totally lost.

Literal holocaust going on there right now, how would you react to Nazi germany?

> Literal holocaust

This is holocaust trivialization and really not cool. China is not murdering 11 million people in gas chambers.

They’ve started with throwing 2 million into a concentration camp and are currently in the process of working them to death. Their families are being genetically wiped out with Han men literally taking the place of the previous Uyghur male. No, this is a literal holocaust/genocide.

Save their top scientist from war crime prosecution, bring them to your own country and have them direct your space programs and other fields.

You do not know what holocaust is or you would not be doing this ridiculous comparison.

There are government/NGO/intelligence/etc funded anti-china propaganda groups spamming anti-china propaganda all over social media. Shouldn't be much of a surprise.

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