More subtle shit for the rest of the world. The US is just now trying to catch up to China in mass survlience and manipulation tech, while China has exporting it for years to get more regimes up to snuff.
Not saying the US hasn’t had large survelence systems, or propaganda, but the Great Firewall still mostly stands as a unique achievement for Chinese authoritarianism, and the US black bagging a major power player that wasn’t totally aligned with the regime would spark a crisis instead of a quite few months.
If I had a choice I’d choose the constant pervasive spy network and manipulation over being bombed, but that is preference on the flavor of evil to me, not on the degree.
Welk yes, but China has been less interested in the data of regular civilians outside of China. Google and the likes have been spying on us all for more than a decade now through the accounts we’ve willingly made with them.
Of course the Chinese are spying on regular people too, but it’s not so much their primary way of making profit as it is for Google.
And like I said: foreign people don’t really care what another country does internally . They care about what affects them: whether their food or their gas is more expensive, whether they can afford to go on vacation, and whether the world feels safe and stable or is a massive powder keg that’s about to blow.
Not saying the US hasn’t had large survelence systems, or propaganda, but the Great Firewall still mostly stands as a unique achievement for Chinese authoritarianism, and the US black bagging a major power player that wasn’t totally aligned with the regime would spark a crisis instead of a quite few months.
If I had a choice I’d choose the constant pervasive spy network and manipulation over being bombed, but that is preference on the flavor of evil to me, not on the degree.
Welk yes, but China has been less interested in the data of regular civilians outside of China. Google and the likes have been spying on us all for more than a decade now through the accounts we’ve willingly made with them.
Of course the Chinese are spying on regular people too, but it’s not so much their primary way of making profit as it is for Google.
And like I said: foreign people don’t really care what another country does internally . They care about what affects them: whether their food or their gas is more expensive, whether they can afford to go on vacation, and whether the world feels safe and stable or is a massive powder keg that’s about to blow.