I agree, and I also thought to post it in ‘News,’, but the commodities are needed for things like semiconductors, solar PVs, LED lights, circuitry, … I am unsure. But I would be interested to know what others and the admins and mods say. Please let me know what you think about it and I post such things elsewhere.

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the average American worker has more in common with the average Chinese worker than they do with an American oligarch

The average American worker has also more in common with the average Chinese worker than they do with an American oligarch Chinese oligarch and Chinese dictator. So your argument is not very valid.

all of the American propaganda about how Chinese people are inherently untrustworthy and nefarious is gonna fall apart as people interact with actual Chinese people and realize “oh they’re pretty much just like me, other than the language barrier”.

No one says that Chinese people are worse or better than Americans or any other people on this planet. We’re all the same. The problem here is the dictatorship in China that collects data of Americans and other people around the globe as others in this thread already have said. The Chinese people are fine, the Chinese government is not.

I am not a mod, but I guess this happens sometimes. No stress I would say.

There is already a thread here: https://beehaw.org/post/18010336

How much of this growth is organic?

Addition: TikTok users’ attempted migration to Chinese app RedNote isn’t going too well

TLDR: Many got banned as they appear to have violated the platform’s rules (because they can’t read the terms).

People are using a CCP mouthpiece that is openly using a name referring to Mao Zedong’s “little red book”, and that is supposedly even worse than Tiktok. The only thing that is more worrying is the media believing such a hype. This is completely artificial imo.

This is a direct consequence of the so-called ‘multipolar world’ imo, and the aggression demonstrated by dictatorships like China and Russia. Not that I think this is good, it’s a bad development, though other areas and countries do and will increasingly to the same in the future. I guess the democratic world -or the rest of it- has no choice other than that.

It may be a modern version of the multilateral export controls we already had during the Cold War in the 20th century.

pettiness and revenge appear to be enough to motivate people to learn how to navigate Xiaohongshu, an app that is overwhelmingly used by Chinese-speaking people and was not designed with English-speaking users in mind. “I have no idea what I’m doing here. I can’t even read the rules,” one TikTok refugee who goes by “Elle belle” said in a post on the app.

Emphasis mine. The article does not say how many users ‘flee’ to this app, and it would be interested to know how many of them are some sort of influencers (or even bots) to create a hype. But I am sure there are many who flock to whatever new app they can get their hands on, no matter how toxic it may be.

Addition: Once Tiktok is sold to Elon Musk, the ‘problem’ may be solved anyway, right?

The 996 working culture in full blossom.