• The Atlantic: The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth
• Chatham House: Debunking the Myth of ‘Debt-trap Diplomacy’
• Johns Hopkins U.: Debt Relief with Chinese Characteristics

As a German defence company, we feel a special responsibility to contribute to the culture of remembrance and commemoration in the context of the Second World War. We have thoroughly examined and documented our role and our transgressions during the Nazi era.

German philosopher Hans-Georg Moeller: Guilt Pride: A German Vanity Project Conquering the World

Oh no, not VoA, RFE, and RFA! Where am I going to get my US imperialist talking points from now, CNN?

VOA specifically has been active since the 1940s, where it broadcast stories into Germany that were meant to counter Nazi propaganda.

No mention of the decades anti-Communist propaganda, huh? Pepperidge Farm remembers when Mother Jones was actually leftist.

You dirty Commie.

you aren’t a communist

Make up your mind, boomer.

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Their comments are not well organized. Look at their comment history; they write like a bot trained to generate pseudo-profound bullshit.

Why are all of your replies indistinguishable from a bored algorithm

Why do you keep projecting onto others the thing that people keep saying about you: that you write like a bot?

Why do I need to reread the book? What do you think I don’t understand?

I’m quite aware that Al Jazeera’s name is on the video. It’s right there, out in the open. All the video does is summarize Herman & Chomsky’s propaganda model. Do you think Al Jazeera’s involvement will give you cooties somehow?

And the US State Department is literally the US State Department. The same US that just aided and abetted a Palestinian genocide for 15 months.

And Noam Chomsky is Noam Chomsky, regardless of who funded the production of that video.

Did you unironically send us to a US .gov propaganda website to get information about a US enemy state’s disinformation?

Where are you getting this idea? Only about 10% have dual-citizenship. Who’s going to absorb the other 90%? And most probably aren’t wealthy enough to simply pick up their lives and leave.

If it’s a pejorative term, then you’re not building the justification for its usage that you think you are.

Your views seem to coincide with Russian propaganda.

You know who else was a vegetarian? Hitler.

Views stand of their own merits irrespective of such coincidences.

Please enlighten us, vagueposter, what does it explain?

We, the Taiwanese people are the original China. Before China changed the characters and language and destroyed thousands of years worth of heritage.

Characters that no one could read, because the vast majority of people were illiterate peasants living under pre-industrial feudalism and suffering from frequent famines.

My parents and the older folks still dream about taking back the mainland Taiwan. The KMT party here tries very hard to make it happen.

The KMT are fascist.

Corporate media are owned by the oligarchs for whom fascism serves. Fascism is a false revolution that keeps the capitalist class in power.

Michael Parenti, Backshirts and Reds:

Divested of its ideological and organizational paraphernalia, fascism is nothing more than a final solution to the class struggle, the totalistic submergence and exploitation of democratic forces for the benefit and profit of higher financial circles.

Yeah… I don’t think you’re the expert on China censorship you present yourself as.

I think you just regurgitated every piece of Cold War propaganda & every rumor about Chinese censorship that you’ve ever heard.

This is the crux of it. People are so used to getting away with “bravely” parroting Western Cold War propaganda that even the mildest push-back is experienced as a massive affront.