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> It's quite peculiar to encounter such simplistic perspectives about the Taiwan situation on this platform. Makes me doubt this platform's main ideology as a whole.

In theory, this platform should be about curious intellectual discussion primarily about tech.

In practice, it suffers from upvote-itis which amplifies popular opinions and worldviews and silences others. That's a horrible environment for sharing knowledge about geopolitical issues that span far beyond SV.



Fair, but the reasoned pages of Foreign Affairs magazine aren't really better. Spoken as a subscriber.


I didn't imply the CFR had better takes than HN. The former is really the upstream of the latter, and part of the myopia that I take issue with.




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