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Be discriminating when quoting and interpreting Indian PA. Recognize the hypes in which they make a killing.
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Be discriminating when quoting and interpreting Indian PA. Recognize the hypes in which they make a killing.
So a fashion company is using “assisted suicide” to promote their products.
Woke Ads are certainly more preferable to this. It’s going to be awkward if this becomes a trend for ads.
SinoSoldier
Colonel
Keep in mind that it was you who brought up the "China collapse" narrative, not me. But I guess there's always that perennial fear in those who persistently believe in their system, correct?
And just how many of those "other protests" are significant enough to be picked up by non-Chinese media? When these events are too major to be suppressed by Chinese censors, then you know it's not just "another protest" in China.
But again, you'd probably brush it off as another piece of evidence that the CIA is behind this, so...
Yes, ineffective in the eyes of those enforcing China's "zero COVID" policy, otherwise we'd be seeing the restrictions loosen already. Those numbers actually speak against the necessity of the zero-COVID rules; there is absolutely no justification for harming the lives of its citizens through these draconian policies if the 35K infections were actually representative of the COVID situation in China.
The tragic irony is that literally no other country has anything akin to China's COVID policies and yet their populaces are going about their daily lives. At some point Chinese citizens are going to inevitably question the necessity and real intent of those policies.
these are actually far right radicals though.
SinoSoldier
Colonel
The point is that even with these policies the Chinese authorities are never going to achieve their ideal "zero COVID" goal, i.e. they will never loosen the restrictions on their own if they keep that goal. The Chinese citizens are realizing just now that they are being subject to one of the most-restrictive lockdowns on the planet while those in other countries seem to be doing just fine without these.
Pathetic. Enjoy your daily diet of BBC.
the illusion of normalcy is just that, an illusion. sweeping problems under the rug and pretending they do not exist is something a 5 year old does. if people are fooled by something that a 5 year old can think of, then the problem is too complicated for them to figure out.
SinoSoldier
Colonel
I think it is unfair to characterize these events are trivial shit. It's not everyday CIA whips up color revolution protests in multiple Chinese cities like Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Nanjing, Wuhan and more. It's reasonable to be a bit worried but of course we trust the CPC knows what its doing and 群众的眼睛是雪亮的
You directly made the remark in your last post that covid zero harming the "very thing that allows it to stay in power: the economy".
That was you.
Isn't that the whole point he's making?
Which is that once a protest is deemed narratively appropriate , it is engineered for media presentation in a way that makes it seem like it is more extensive, broad than it is, through the co-opting of genuine discontents towards anti CPC discourses.
His entire argument is that the legitimacy of a protest or discontent is not measured by the barometer of western media coverage.