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China using families as 'hostages' to quash dissent abroad (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/863209

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair enough. I appreciate the detailed response. I agree there's lots of reasons to be skeptical of claims made against China. At the same time, I think we can still be critical of China's actions and not merely dismiss everything against China as some CIA backed plot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree, the best thing is to not jump to conclusions neither the conclusion "Everything is 100% CIA lies" nor the conclusion "China bad" and be patient with individual topics before stepping onto the emotional roller coaster

I've listened to a podcast ("Silk and Steel") by a Chinese living in the US and he describes the media coverage of China in the West as skewed, but he describes it as narrowed onto a certain slice of Chinese reality that is there just blown out of proportion.

I don't remember his exact words and I am not an English native so I might not transfer the nuance precisely. But along those lines is what I remember. And even IIRC its just the opinion of one person, but it stuck with me. Tbf that was years ago though and narrative has certainly picked up since then

Thank you for the appreciation, I have to say I have yet to get used to the discussions on lemmy being seemingly way more good-faithed than on reddit!