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China-Related Cognitive Dissonance 101

Lesson 1 - How to most effectively ignore any positive comments about China

Chinese Mainlander: They can't access the truth

Overseas Chinese: Brainwashed from childhood

Undetermined: Bot

Foreigner: Paid CCP shill
Lesson 2

If you've decided to join the high-demand wonderful world of anti-China journalism, increase your efforts to lable those with opposing opinions as "CCP Shills", it helps to effectively divert attention away from the fact that you actually do get paid for your narrative.
Lesson 3

If you find you've pushed the limits too far, and others begin to suspect you of being a racist, immediately use the first available applicable line below:

- I have a Chinese wife/husband
- I had a Chinese girlfriend/boyfriend
- I have a Chinese friend
- I like Dim Sum
Lesson 4

When using content/material from one of the many friendly anti-China propagandists working with ASPI or similar NGO's, call any critics in your comments "Tankies" in order to divert attention from the fact that the source material was funded by actual tank manufacturers
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Questions for China govt haters

Do you think if you spent as much time criticizing/calling out your own countries & allies, you could make more actual change? This is what you're supposed to be able to do in a democracy right? Why waste your time on an inflexible "dictatorship"?
If yes, why aren't you doing it?

If you are doing it, why is Julian Assange still in prison? Why are things like this still happening and how are things like this even possible?
Why are you still trying to take action on what you think is happening behind closed doors in China while doing nothing about what you know is happening in open markets born from the things that YOU did?

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On this anniversary day of the Tiananmen Square protests, I remember the young soldiers, police & protesters who lost their lives 31 years ago.

In '89, you can consider yourself lucky to have been living in a country that had already found it's way, but China wasn't one of them,
I listen to stories of what older generations went through, or even just my wife's generation, and how just like most other Chinese at the time, how little they had

I always remember when my father-in-law watched "To Live", a movie portraying old campaigns of the Communist govt,
despite being a pretty unemotional guy, he stopped watching it with us half way through, because he said it was too real for him.

What his generation & his parents generation went through is something very few people outside of China can empathise with, particularly in the West,
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If you use the Hong Kong protest exchange rate, this is actually millions of protesters.
Hong Kong protest math in action.

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A great additional thread on the topic of Hong Kong protester math.

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