this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
872 points (99.4% liked)

World News

45590 readers
3898 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News [email protected]

Politics [email protected]

World Politics [email protected]


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
  • China’s finance ministry on Friday said it will impose a 34% tariff on all goods imported from the U.S. starting on April 10.
  • The ministry criticized Washington’s decision to impose 34% of additional reciprocal levies on China — bringing total U.S. tariffs against the country to 54% — as “inconsistent with international trade rules.”
  • U.S. stock futures and European markets fell sharply on news of the reciprocal tariffs.

https://archive.ph/ZmcZJ

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Your comment history certainly doesn’t paint you as a Taiwanese individual. More as an American who is desperate to make China look as good as possible…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

To be honest I've been waiting for someone to try to call me out on this. Here's my passport

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Full respect to the photo. I may not 100% agree but I respect taking the photo for proof.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

You know, I'm confused what people are disagreeing with. I've only stated facts.

Sudan and Myanmar are completely under China's sphere of influence. They are both in the middle of a civil war. China has done nothing and supplied both sides.

Taiwan has consistently stated they want the status quo. Congress is heavily in favor of that. So much so they made a law to handcuff the president from declaring.

China has repeatedly stated they believe Taiwan will aquiesce peacefully and will only invade if Taiwan unilaterally declares independence.

Thus, in a situation where China is the sole hegemony, China knows they are right about Taiwan and will simply wait out Taiwan. If the world is under Chinese sphere of influence we'll see a massive uptick in civil wars.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It really doesn't help that China has been a hot topic, for decades. You can say nothing but the simple truth and someone will call it propaganda or say you're a paid shill, for saying something consistently known as truth.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Well the weirdest thing to me is I am saying China becoming the world's super power will lead to genocide. Not caused by China itself, but by China's inactions. And my proof is historical from Sudan and Myanmar. Yet people are calling me a pro-China shill? It's odd at best.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Happens to a lot of people, you're not alone in this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The problem is you're not saying the magic words. Actually parsing an argument is out of fashion, so you gotta sprinkle your posts with stuff like "free Taiwan" or "fuck Putin" or whatever, so ~~the LLM~~ they ~~paste your posts into to summarise them~~ can understand them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Tankie. That user is a tankie.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 days ago

I mean they are from .ml, being a tankie was assumed