The Chinese Government Just Got the World’s Largest Digital Rights Conference Canceled
2026-05-03 02:26 UTC
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@psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2026-05-03 02:36
And with that, China essentially hold Africa hostage and would blackmail them to do whatever China wanted. But of course, they do it without bloodshed so tHeY aRE bETteR tHAn tHe wESt
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@Doom@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 19:08
Ignore for a moment rather this is right or wrong (it's wrong) but ignore that. THIS is a textbook example of Soft Power. The thing the Trump administration tanked by gutting USAID. The west is still playing old world outdated politics from last century and China is going to leave us and our allies in the dust because of it.
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@betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 02:28
The CCP is so terrified of that little island.
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@thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-04 14:26
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@wheezy@lemmy.ml 2026-05-03 07:58
At some point we'll be talking about the US military actions to "protect Taiwan". I just want you to remember this comment when that happens. Like, whatever you think about China, it really doesn't matter. These stories are only here to serve as a means to manufacture consent for US actions in the future. It's for more war. Just like Iran. Just keep that in mind as we push further into the next world war. No one writing articles like this cares about the "digital rights conference" and you don't either. If you cared about "digital rights" or any "rights" you'd be refusing to go to work until the genocidal pedophiles in your own government were brought to justice. You don't care.
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@Tolc@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 18:53
One china policy in action
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@TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 2026-05-03 13:09
Wow, this discussion went off the rails right quick. 😄😄
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@lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 09:22
One hegemony replaced by another.
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@Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 23:01
Xi's $0.50 Army is fast approaching.
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@JATtho@lemmy.world 2026-05-05 00:15
"Paywall" stopped by pressing ESC.
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@stumu415@lemmy.zip 2026-05-04 15:11
Don't forget the US invades countries, steal their oil, kill their children, bring the world in the brink of bankruptcy. But no. China bad. How many countries has China invaded this decade vs that shining beacon of freedom and democracy?
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@Tolc@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 10:28
liberls will obviously support fascist.
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@betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 22:39
Anything unusual going on at the time of that pretty graph which might have an impact on global trade? In any case, this doesn't seem relevant to why the CCP is quaking in their boots at tiny Taiwan and exerting the kind of pressure described in the article.
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@rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-03 23:05
Moreso, before the West brought back the issue in the mainstream, regular travel between China and Taiwan could be made relatively easily.
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@gtrcoi@programming.dev 2026-05-04 06:18
That's so true almighty knower of politics. Please show me where your knowledge comes from in the above link. You'll find the document is organised into many numbered and lettered sections, so just let me know which section supports this guys unfounded assertion about a $1.6 billion budget for an "influence campaign".
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@gtrcoi@programming.dev 2026-05-05 06:19
See now that's a lie, because you implied that guy knows his politics, which is a positive claim that turns on the authenticity of his claim. Now you're running away from it because it's increasingly clear he doesn't know shit and you look like a sock for defending him. Maybe you should change your original comment to "spreading lies about politics means you're paid to do so" which isn't really what I said either, but would at least be close enough to avoid looking completely illiterate.
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@gtrcoi@programming.dev 2026-05-05 18:14
That's awesome. I mean that article is trash, but at least it's relevant. It's about a completely different bill ([HR 1157](https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1157/text)) than the one linked above ([HR 7476](https://www.congress.gov/index.php/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7476/text)), but that's okay, for now we can chalk it up to platform9469's mistake rather than malicious intent. The latter will be evident after reading the bill, which is only a few pages long. It's sad, and quite telling, that you felt the need to link an op-ed rather than the bill itself, but we can use it as an opportunity to teach some media literacy. From the trash op-ed: > This legislation authorizes more than $1.6 billion for the State Department and USAID over the next five years to, **among other purposes**, subsidize media and civil society sources around the world that counter Chinese “malign influence” globally. What other purposes? Activities financed by the bill are detailed in **section 2.e** in 7 parts, including the "influence campaign", anti-corruption and anti-crime initiatives, security services(?), and economic development including offering alternative financial assistance for key infrastructure projects. There's a lot on that list that will cost a lot more than posting shit on social media. Calling it an "influence campaign" hardly does it justice, this is a wholistic expression of a countries soft power into regions that will benefit from it. That $1.6 billion will go towards more than any terminally online ml has ever imagined. Speaking of money, let's see what this opinion slop you posted says about that: > That’s a massive spend — about twice, for example, the annual operating expenditure of CNN. Well now, that's just a straight up lie. CNN doesn't even share it's expenses because it's a subsidiary of WB which groups CNN with other networks they own together in their expense reports, so idk how this Harvard genius figured it out. Estimates I've seen floating around put their annual expenditure at 1.2 billion. This bill allocates $325 million per year. We don't even know what this clown thinks the real CNN number is because he doesn't bother providing one. He vaguely gestures towards the GEC and USAID so he can frame things as extra bad while saying basically nothing. He's probably happy that Trump deleted the GEC and USAID a few months later. The slop slinger then brings up a "vision document", which as far as I can tell is like fan-fiction for military people, as an example of what this could all look like. A horrible story of honest Chinese capitalists being astroturfed and robbed of their business opportunities. It's a pity none of the language in the bill describes anything like this. Instead of tearing down the ops, the bill details providing alternative options for a wide range of things to whatever organisations need them so they don't need to rely on Chinese support. He ends with something I thought was pretty funny, contemplating the potential for what he imagines the plan is to backfire by eroding trust in anti-china information by virtue of people being aware that the US has an interest in spreading it. Ignoring the fact that China does the exact same thing and we have multiple instances of ml's, plus myriad other leftist slopulists, who eat that shit up without a thought. So yea, it didn't take you much effort to dig up some rando headline with a vestigial op-ed attached to it, but it didn't get you anywhere. You actually have to read shit and understand it, not just blindly follow every contrarian sock with a world-view throwing headlines at you.
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@blinfabian@feddit.nl 2026-05-04 06:25
american concentrationcamps 😡 chinese concentrationcamps ☺️
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@ManixT@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 22:03
Tell me you've never been to china without telling me you've never been to china.
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@blinfabian@feddit.nl 2026-05-04 07:39
they r both bad. its not that hard to comprehend brother
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@SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 12:02
> closed for six fucking years now Is that cause they got the job done or...? 😂