When appraising something from a propaganda-y source, the rule of thumb I use is to treat it like selling sausages - if they're your sausages, you don't go into detail, but if they're your competitors sausages and you know they're full of sawdust then you don't need to make anything up.
Also "this isn't Reddit" is just delusions of grandeur, HN commenters are self-selected around technology for the most part not politics.
Well depends on what your motives are when you are reading china related news. Do you want an accurate depiction of that's actually going on or do you want to read stuff that reaffirms your bias.
The actual article linked has provided zero evidence that CCP is trying to nationalize Alibaba. So to me that's a low quality article that I think should not appear on hn
Also "this isn't Reddit" is just delusions of grandeur, HN commenters are self-selected around technology for the most part not politics.