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China helping to arm Russia with helicopters, drones and metals (www.telegraph.co.uk)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Just an endless slew of clickbait "China bad" headlines all the time. Really makes you wonder about if there is some sort of systemic problem with western media.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Authoritarian countries tend to be criticised in liberal western democracies, you know, because of all of the authoritarianism.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    How much control do you really have over a government that only has two parties? FPTP is a failure. It leaves government without accountability, pisses on the principle of equal representation, and shifts power towards the few areas that may actually flip.

    If you lose this federal election, so what? Eventually, people will get angry enough at the current ruling party to flip.

    If you vote, so what? Unless you're in a swing state, your vote might as well not exist for the presidential election.

    What about representation in the house? Well, again, your vote doesn't really matter unless you're in a swing district (which tends to be suburban). If you're urban (liberal) or rural (conservative), you might as well not vote either.

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    • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    when Russia becomes the third world nation in a proxy war.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Russia has been a third world nation since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Politicians just like to use the Russian boogeyman to scare people who remember the Cold War. Putin may be a monster, but China is the real threat.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    Sorry, but the real threat to what exactly?

    Edited: aside from Taiwan, Hong Kong, several other nations in the east. My question was more in the context of China as a threat to anything in the western hemisphere. They are the eastern version of the US, no doubt about it.

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