No I totally think US is overall superior to China right now, when comparing 2 nations snapshot vs snapshot.
But, US perception on China is so bad compared the Chain perception on US, that this imbalance is creating a huge strategic risk between 2 nuclear super power, and causes both sides troubles when they need to collaborate.
That's why it's important to unshackle the US mass from the perception bias on China.
And that's what I want to convey. I.e., stop using grandiose sweeping argument like moral superiority, which is itself so large in scope that the comparison quickly lost any relevance.
> Lets meet as friends in Tiananmen square - you wear a t-shirt saying ‘what happened here in 1989?’
I think the Tankman incident is a silver light in the whole event, i.e., the individual stand against the tank, and the tank decide to go different route; and eventually the confrontation was dissolved by bystanders.
If you emphasize the confrontation, you'll use the t-shirt you mentioned.
For me, I'll wear a t-shirt stating: remember the tragedy.
And what's the point of this to do with altering the perception on China? If you just narrow your viewpoint onto Tankman, that's going to miss so much of other things happening in China.
It's like focusing on Gorge Floyd, and ignoring all the other things happening in US.
What's the point of such narrow view?
> I’ll come dressed as Winnie the Pooh.
If you cut all the implication to Xi, I see no danger whatsoever of wearing that on Tiananmen, or anywhere in China.
Politics in China is different. That's just a cultural thing.
Parents are also more authoritative, that's part of the cultural as well.
Mocking people public is considered an insult. Not just to Xi, to any normal Chinese citizen, that's considered inappropriate.
If you feel that your own culture is so superior that others should automatically accept; and if they don't like it, then you'll call them a lot of bad words, and try to force the narrative, then you are practicing fascism?
> I guess as long as the tank tread on your neck is Chinese - it’s not a problem.
Are you implying mg Chinese identity will be a problem in US then? Are you threatening or are you joking?
> Better to be called a facist in democracy than to live in the authoritarian dictatorship you provide unceasing support to.
I provide uneasy support to China and CCP? No! I uneasily support the mutual understanding between China and US. And for now, the part that lacks understanding is US, and American people continue to allow themselves to be fooled by the mainstream media. While at the same time most of them do not even trust them anyway. It was just that the mental conditioning has been started since early 1900s since the rise of Communism that the distrust on MSM does not translate to critical thinking in the people's mind.
Yes for sure. My support for anything is uneasy. And only on a case by case and rational way.
I see the danger of blindfolded mindset to trigger the hot war between 2 nuclear super power. Then I act accordingly. Is that a support to China? Sure! It's a support to China just like Bill Clinton OKed China's joining to WTO. It's a support like Donald Trump squandered US supremacy and disunited the US allies. That does not make me or bill Clinton or Trump less American.
> I pity the people of China
Me too.
I support Chinese people's development. I am planning a nonprofit for my home province's education. We'll be helping youth coming to US and learn the history and culture in the American, so they have a more independent attitude towards government and power.
Like I said, changes take time, I want to contribute to the cultivation of western values in Chinese youth.
> who don’t have a say in their government
No no no...
This current iteration of Chinese government was created after the people overthrow the US backed KMT. They are going to overthrow CCP if CCP starts to behaving poorly. Look at the growing civil dissident during the haydays of rampant capitalism when people's lives are put on danger for the profits of the few.
> and have no choice but to tow the party line
They don't have choices in some basic politicians rules. Like CCP has to be the leader, and China had to be on socialism.
So what. American have to be on a 2 party system, and US has to be on a capitalist system. Is that so different?
> What’s your excuse?
I have no excuse. All I said is rational based on my own observation.
I have no issues embracing US dictatorship when Julian Assange was ruled to extract to US.
I also have no issue of embracing Chinese dictatorship when what?
The point is that nations are complicated. From individual to a national government. If you want to use dictatorship to describe 1.4b people's collective, then you are simply too lazy to think.
If we're being fair, the deletion log mentions the exact reason: it wasn't an article that was deleted; it was a (cross-namespace) redirect. The actual article could've been some user's sandbox page or something. If a page is a sandbox (not complete), there shouldn't be redirects to it. When the page is complete enough, then it can be moved to the main namespace.
Yes and no. It’s just that no one has bothered to make the page for one; you’re free to do so. Your accusation of deletion implies that there was a page that was deleted. That would be a bias, but it wasn’t the case. The page was a redirect that violated the rules.
In other words, there’s a bias in the editors to not make it, but there’s no malicious bias that deleting an actual article would imply.
Ah. That is interesting. The reason for the deletion of the draft is supposedly inactivity. I can't see the contents of the page before deletion, so I can't comment on how complete the draft was, but it's definitely a page that should exist.
Downloading 100gb games over the internet became a thing, and h264 and h265 were efficient enough to prevent consumer video needing anything much larger than blu-ray.
Sony ODA is a thing, and uses 11 600gb discs in a compact cartridge to give around 6tb per cartridge.
I do not expect large-capacity optical media to become available for consumer use, but A 100GB BDXL can archive only 6 minutes of 8K video at 60 fps from a RED, so I would assume high-end visual production would want something better than 100GB per disk.
Sony will happily sell you ODA at 6tb per cartridge for $$$$.
I think the video production folk use LTO and HDDs for long term storage.
Everyone who still cares would like multi-terabyte optical - but it’s not a big enough market anymore outside of long term corporate archiving (the ODA use case), and Sony probably doesn’t want to canabalize that market.
Sony sells decks and recorders for their high-capacity "Professional Disc" that can hold up to 128GB per disk. And then there is their cartridge to compete with LTO, the ODA Gen 3 that holds, IIRC, 11 discs with a total of 5.5 TB per cartridge. A bit less than LTO-7 (and half as much as LTO-8), but I don't think LTO tapes can survive being boiled in water.
Try posting that ‘The US is morally superior to China’ in China, and you are going to spend a lot of time being re-educated as to why that’s not true.
But seriously, I just want to privately practice tennis.