We are going to defensive alliance you so hard with our aggressive move to Asi-wait.

Also, if they want the DPRK to do something they should talk to the DPRK. This is what happens when you refuse to have diplomatic relations with a country. Should China start issuing demands to the US via Canada? International diplomacy should not be grade-school note-passing.

I like SMTV, but if you are coming from Persona it is a VERY different experience. Persona is a much more narrative spinoff series from the original SMT franchise. SMT games you are typically alone, with just a party of the monsters you recruit to help you. Consequently there isn't a whole lot of dialog. There is some story, but in most SMT games it tends to be very back-heavy.

SMT games do tend towards bleak, depressing and extremely difficult. They usually do have multiple narrative paths/endings to give it some replay value. They are really for people who enjoy those kinds of gameplay systems first and foremost.

So in an attempt to thwart imagined Chinese propaganda, USians have pushed their user base into actual Chinese platforms. If even a portion of those users come to the realization that China are not evil harry potter villains, it would be a net win.

I would say it is one of the US's bigger own-goals, but they have had so many.

I love checking the byline on these opinion pieces.

The author is a member of the “Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong” and has based most of his career on fearmongering Tiananmen Square. He was banned from entering China years ago, so obviously is extremely unbiased.

My father made the mistake of telling me I would become less liberal, instead of more conservative.

He was right, but unaware of the monkey paw curling.

I do get some encouragement seeing things like this, or the students protesting who didn't back down even when their future careers were threatened.

The fact that they saw through the incredibly biased framing of the question especially.
"said they side with the terrorist group that just earlier this month purposefully targeted and slaughtered innocent civilians.". There's not even the hint of trying to be journalists anymore with them.

After the zoo that famously starved one of the Panda on loan from China, that makes sense. I still think it was intentional to take out their sinophobia on panda.

When "Russian disinformation" is just "information".

"I am sure you see how bad it looks if you report on the facts, so we ask you to instead help us push back against the truth with um...our own propaganda. But for a good cause!"

If you have no idea who somebody really is, why would you want to take a photo with them? I suppose asking one staffer to maybe vet them before they are commemorated is asking too much?

The proper response is outrage that a nazi was invited to be honoured. Especially as a descendent of Holocaust survivors, the correct reaction is to be livid. Not upset that people are "politicizing an issue".

"Numbers that high are impossible, the country is lying".

Obviously the natural order of things is to have homeless on every street corner, it is impossible to exist otherwise!

Swaying them to vote...for who? Remind me which US political party would align with Chinese interests. Are they staging a massive coup for the CPUSA?

Promoting the unbiased enlightened truth, OBVIOUSLY. Beliefs and ideology are what Others think.