The US does not consider Taiwan part of China. The US follows one China policy which is that they acknowdge Chinas position that it believes Taiwan is part of China.
That’s like saying “I understand you believe that the sky is pink.”
Hence she the US refers to it as strategic ambiguity. This is the same position that the likes of NZ and AU have.
So don’t go telling people they are uninformed when clearly you’re just here spreading propaganda.
There’s a reason why the CCP uses the One China Principle while countries like the US have One China Policy.
Don’t forget that the CCP advocated for Taiwan independence, and during an interview Mao said they would help Taiwan (Formosa) in its struggle for independence. During a conference in Moscow in the 1920s they referred to Taiwan as an independent nation and nationality. This only changed in 1943.
There’s no long China history with China. When the Dutch went to Taiwan there was no presence of Ming dynasty. And at no point in history had china ever controlled or ruled over Taiwan. The CCP has never even set food in Taiwan.
So it literally has no valid claims to Taiwan. Regardless of any opinions you may hold.
If that’s splitting hairs then there’s no point in discussing because you obviously don’t care about history or facts and only regurgitate propaganda.
If every single person made some positive change and moved the needle... then nothing else would happen. Because there's profit to be made, the issue is global capitalism. Environmental disaster is just a side effect.
And you are choosing to ignore the most unsavory aspects that have been raised in the west because your local media has told you otherwise. Its absolutely true! There are very strong analogies here with Holocaust denialism, which some states see as such a problem they outlaw the philosophy!
It is not bigotry to stand up to authoritarianism and human rights abuses. You wield that term bigot to downplay the vast and monstrous human rights abuses occurring in Xinjiang.
Its absolutely nothing to do with race or nationality. There is nothing intrinsic that would permit such actions to be attributed to this. It is not about bigotry. Connecting the two is all part of the metagame in pushing a state propaganda. Make your accuser seem less credible so you never have to address the actual substance of the complaint.
The reported incidents include Forced Labor and Sexual Abuse, Organ Harvesting and Genocide. On mass. This happened. This is happening. There is plenty of neutral international sources on this. Saying it doesn't exist is absurd. There is clear evidence of this!
These are not lies told by the western media, as the Chinese media claims.
These are happening, they have been reported by people that have escaped, they have been raised to the UN. Most of the world has denounced this...
Pumping sulfur up, a dangerous game if you can't keep doing it all the way to the time when CO2 scrubbing fusion plants save your crispy bacon.
There is a recent book named: under a white sky.
The "Uighur genocide" war propaganda has gotten completely out of control. Even the US State department dropped it early into Biden's presidency apparently realising how ridiculous it was. However it's still got a lot of momentum and the masses have swallowed it wholesale. It's dumbfounding and terrifying to me how much of it is still regurgitated wholesale on mass media when it's trivially demonstrated that every single part of it comes from CIA funded orgs like the NED or even just random crackpots like Adrian Zenz who are led by God to fight homosexuality and Communism.
The Chinese are supposedly imprisoning or killing millions and the evidence is this one girl who they won't give a passport to, or a google maps satellite image of a school, or a BBC documentary with scary music and shaky cam, or a random person linked with the CIA who managed to "escape".
"Please don’t take anything in this post as supporting China..."
I’m not so quick to write off China’s treatment of Uiygurs as terrible for human rights. My understanding is that Tibetans went through similar issues decades before, so my sense is that it’s likely happening, whether or not the source is CIA.
I just think the USA has done far more to encourage this stupid “love your country or we will treat you as a terrorist” attitude that China seems to have adopted. Also the consequences of my country invading Iraq without a real mission or realistic plan destabilizing the region have caused (far?) more than 200k civilian deaths.
I feel like an American complaining about China (which he has zero influence over) and ignoring the problems in America that he can influence is large hypocrisy and it should be poured out, repeatedly.
> I just think the USA has done far more to encourage this stupid “love your country or we will treat you as a terrorist” attitude that China seems to have adopted,
In the US, I am free to say "I don't love my country" or "I don't love my government" without going to prison.
While I won’t argue that your statement is wrong, I think it oversimplies the issue to the point of misdirection.
I find this similar to the expression “generals always fight the last war”. Freer societies have similar controls on outlier citizens, they just do it through different means. Piss off a mayor and you might see more rigorous building inspectors on your property. Piss off the president and you might find yourself defending against an IRS audit. America doesn’t fight it’s citizens with a gun or a sword, it does it with paper cuts.
The USA has 200k+ crimes defined in law just at the national level (according to the author of 3 Felonies a Day). Prosecutors and LEOs are given wide discretion to prosecute, so someone who violates a traffic law may get much more lenient treatment if they express solidarity with Blue Lives Matter (a political stance) than if they express sentiments like Black Lives Matter (generally; obviously lots of variables). I have police in my family; they complain more about people who threat them with a lack of respect than they do the worst criminals they encounter.
And the famous Free Speech case that gave us the “you can’t falsely yell fire in a crowded theater” opinion was about a man handing out flyers trying to convince young American men to avoid the WW1 draft. He was arrested and SCOTUS upheld his conviction about speech that did not directly incite any violence. The USA is not as virtuous on the subject of speech as the myth suggests.
I’m not arguing that China’s laws are good. I don’t want to live there and I suspect I’ve said enough to get arrested there, but I’ve also said enough to likely be arrested in the USA if USA prosecutors were not so overworked.
It doesn't, but only if you assume all text is utf-8. You can't do that on windows because there's plenty of legacy files that use encoding like windows-1252 which are incompatible with utf-8.
The time to drop that support is long passed. UTF-8 has won, the value of pandering to these ancient codepages versus the cost of choking and displaying mojibake just because someone dared to add a kanji character to a CSV should be clear by now.
UTF-8 has won on the web and file storage. For programming (C#, probably Java too, the Windows API) it’s UTF-16. Good point is it’s an Unicode encoding, bad point is that is variable-size, which look fixed-size for common characters.
> For programming (C#, probably Java too, the Windows API) it’s UTF-16.
For programming it's UTF8, except for Windows-centric developers (and Microsoft technologies).
Java uses WTF16 internally but rarely assumes an external charset, and when it does, older API tend to use the default charset (which is generally ascii-compatible at best: on western windows it's commonly windows-1252, though it's been UTF-8 for years on most unices). Newer APIs like Files.newBufferedReader(Path) straight go with UTF-8.
And what happens to all the legacy office versions out there, or all the legacy csvs floating around? What you described works fine on a rolling release distro, but would be unacceptable for enterprise software. The current approach (opt in utf-8 with BOM to disambiguate between utf-8 and non-utf8) files is the best option that doesn't piss off their customers.
