Links and Stuff
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Yesterday's discussion post.
Chinese hating the US more and more with each passing day. You love to see it.
This also means that the US can't really hope that Xi's replacement is going to magically fix this giant political and cultural barrier either. All around good news.
There were a real honeymoon under Bush and Hu ‘s era in terms of china-us relationship but i think most of chinese understand that usa would never see us as equals
I can't realy imagine what the last 20 years would be like for native Chinese. Between all the US wars and 2008 crisis meanwhile China kept consistently growing for 2 decades.
I can understand still having lib brain worms back then and "respecting" the US but Chinese T1 cities are more modern than first world equivalents. China is now a modern country while the US is just North Mexico but lucky to have their own money printer.
Tbf there are definitely a T1 city vs less developed place ideological divide, my cousin who lives in a T1 still has a very american/consumerism brainset
A lot can be blamed on, and the Chinese government is not really doing a good job selling themselves to their citizens
Thank god that the american are doing the job for the Chinese govt right now with their maniac and aggresive attack.
I think my criticism is more the states doesn’t allow enough flexibility in terms for what kind of media it allows (understandably) therefore people tends to take what the gov say with a grain of salt
But yes the USA acting like a hasbeen does help china’s image sometime
t1 s and 2s are ironically the most brainwormed, because they have had the most exposure to western cultural output. their material gains have been outpaced by ideological tendencies, while less developed places are more capable of taking material advances at face value.
also no one can afford to live in t1 cities and there is a massive housing, healthcare and higher education bubble across the country that holds local governments complicit and so people are rightfully skeptical about their futures. in their ignorance, they look to the west as a grass is greener type of place.
When Obama pivot to Asia, that's basically end the relationship