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Is China writing articles like this about the UK/US? I feel like there's plenty of material.

Yes absolutely. Not only that, but they run those stories through various state channels with the intent to propagandize...even to non-US/UK countries, and even via media like shortwave radio.

(While also actively jamming other radio stations in that case)

I think the time most recently when I’ve felt this was talking to a young adult from Hong Kong in a hostel in Switzerland last month and he was surprised that the tap water is safe to drink in most of America

Likewise my wife from Mexico was highly suspect of the tap water everywhere we'd go till we went over just how different the tap water situation is in the US compared to Mexico.

You could write that about much of the western world I would assume. At least add Canada, and most of Europe to that list from what I can tell.

China Daily is the state owned english language news in China. They have plenty to say about the US economy.

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202308/03/WS64cb948ca3103526...

China kinda owns the Western teen ideology via TikTok. They can make them feel defeated at any time.

I mean, is it China's fault my sister can't afford a house?

Is it China's fault I got screamed at by a homeless man on the subway last week?

Western teen and millennials are perfectly capable to do that on their own. It was us millennials that elevated grievance politics and cry-bulling into an art form. From the moment I turned 18 it was continuous barrage of news how fucked up everything is.

We didn't start the fire. It was always burning, since the world's been turning.

Yes, as a fellow kid, I can say for certain that it’s a lack of respect for our elders and too many avocado toasts that have placed us in this position. We should have walked in and applied for a job with a firm handshake and maybe then we’d own a house.

>We should have walked in and applied for a job with a firm handshake and maybe then we’d own a house.

Or the fact that people with higher education try to cram themselves into select couple of US, UK and EU cities.

It's notable that the average millennial whiner I encounter on tik tok is not a farmer/sailor/oil rig worker or trucker. But someone with liberal arts or some humanities degree that is mortally offended that the universe refuses to provide them with the lifestyle that they have seen on friends or sex and the city.

Funny. From my perspective, it was we Boomers who responded to everything that the younger generations did as if it were a great grievance against us. We fought, and still fight, bitterly against a ton of things that just don't affect us, usually "for the children".

(I am strictly Gen X but when they say "ok Boomer" I know they mean me too.)

i have a hunch that the west is doing its best to undermine china. so yeah. here we are.

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