[–] 1 point 4 hours ago

Article 7: All organizations and citizens shall support, assist, and cooperate with national intelligence efforts in accordance with law, and shall protect national intelligence work secrets they are aware of.

Trusting ambitious Chinese citizens is like trusting an American corporation. Our governments are big, the things they want can be small, why would the average person say no?

"Chinese spy" is a silly narrative but it's even sillier to have a government say "I get to do this" and just... ignore it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Too many biographies: he was born into an influential family; he had money to explore a burgeoning science/industry; he committed an outrageous crime/stunt but was given a slap on the wrist; he was awarded a nobel for his work.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Would you say that you're wearing imperialist clothes then for the tactical benefit, like a soldier on a secret mission disguised as the enemy?

    Everyone understands Russia is correct to invade because NATO can't be a neighbor, and that NATO is correct to "take" Ukraine because it's possible and useful in keeping Russia in check. The problem is that this is imperialist logic. The common sense that runs the world of zero sum capitalists. The "think of the shareholders" of geopolitics.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    That would be very ambitious. It sounds dismissive but I wonder if anyone would care... we all seem content to focus on Palestine and ignore what's happening in Africa. The countries of the world aren't gushing with altruism unfortunately.

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