Xi, taking a bold stand against gender ideology.
Embraces all genders and sexes like a boss.
The USian frontal lobe cannot conceive of the idea of not being the center of the universe at all times.
SERIOUSLY
You think a leader of the biggest economy in the world, with a population in the billions, and an active US rival is going to just immediately do an about face and kiss the ring like some USian CEO or media figure or whatever? Xi doesn’t need to kiss the ring, he doesn’t need to curry favor, China has something much better than favor, it has leverage
This, also China is banking where it really matters, for both pragmatic and moral purposes- the global south, aka. the overwhelming global majority.
They don’t need to pander to a bunch of racist declining cracker-states, and doing so would be useless anyways, as China is the world’s largest non-white, non-western state rising up to challenge that order- it is basically enemy #1 for the white supremacists. And similarly, they don’t need to shoot themselves in the foot by backing a bunch of domestic reactionary social movements just to spit on western takes of “wokeness”- cultivating a healthy, harmonious society of 1.5 billion is more important, and the actual matter of life and death for China as a whole.
Instead of pandering to the ““international community”” of the west, China is busy cultivating meaningful ties with the rest of the world and helping them develop; falling for western racism would be thoroughly counterproductive in this regard. And China is demonstrating to the world the achievements of a system that focuses on the common good and material conditions- unlike the west, their offering to the world is not political interference, moral crusading for faux-progressive and/or reactionary means, and imperial divide-and-conquer.
Why kiss rings when you can manufacture your own?
tbf US politics works that way, so I think their brain is just broken by Trump’s theatrics
Why would Xi give a shit about MAGA? Lol
Their inflated sense of self-importance is hilarious
She’s living in Taipei.
Why the hell would she want China to be driven by a dumb reactionary death drive?
She’d be seeing multiple sunsets ot this happened.
I get the feeling these types of people might stop boarding the anti-woke train once it becomes clear the GOPs BS isn’t any better for the economy than the Dems was and that none of this has anything to do with “those scary queers and uppity women.”
Honestly I’m kind of glad the Dems aren’t in power for this because the collapse continuing to get worse under Trump might put a stop to the “Progressive values are weakening the West and is capitalist decadence.” myth.
You have far too much faith in our chuds. Hating minorities is the goal, the economy is the pretext.
Lee Atwater moment
I get the feeling these types of people might stop boarding the anti-woke train once it becomes clear the GOPs BS isn’t any better for the economy than the Dems
Lol no, these fascist fucks have been doing this for decades now, and they haven’t given up. All they’ve done is constantly rebrand their reactionary culture “war”
True lol
worse under Trump might put a stop to the “Progressive values are weakening the West and is capitalist decadence.” myth
What’s awesome is that he is accelerating the decline in such an obvious so as to completely alienate anyone who thinks his tariffs make zero sense.
She probably thinks that being “Anti-Woke, Anti-DEI” means being racist against non-white people. She’s probably thinking that she’ll be fine if China cranks up the racism.
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How else is he supposed to win in 2028?
If I were Xi Jinping I would blow up all the amerikkkan ships from the sea and blame it on the dei hires
He should claim that America is too woke, and everytime Trump goes further right Xi throws on more sanctions against the US, saying that they are still woke and becoming more woke.
Let me guess: aussie thinktank nepobaby?
I refuse to read anything by these nerds. They can do their America Jr. LARP elsewhere, where I can’t see it, thank you very much.
Bethany Allen is Head of China Investigations and Analysis. Prior to joining ASPI, Bethany was the China reporter for Axios, where she published numerous ground-breaking investigations about China and how it projects power around the world. She is also the author of “Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World,” named by the Financial Times as a Best Book of 2023.
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) is a defence and strategic policy think tank based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, founded by the Australian government, and funded by the Australian Department of Defence along with overseas governments, and defence and technology companies
Anyway, for you thinktank watchers out there, ASPI currently fighting with the Australian government, here’s a whiny article
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/varghese-review-will-undermine-think-tank-independence/
For China watchers, there’s a grim irony contained in the 14 principles that former senior official Peter Varghese recommends in his long-awaited review into national security think tanks, released last week.
Fourteen was also the number of grievances the Chinese embassy notoriously unveiled in 2020 and that Beijing expected to be addressed if diplomatic relations were to improve – the 10th of which was defunding the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
We are recognised globally for our groundbreaking work on China—none of which is convenient to the government’s narrative of diplomatic stability with Beijing.
Finally, there is the shutting of support for ASPI’s Washington office. Here, Varghese appears simply not to understand the role of think tanks’ overseas offices—saying it’s a problem ‘having ASPI freelance’.
Even more than most, ASPI I just a nakedly evil, warmonging US front for the weapons industry. Obviously it’s whole purpose is to try and ignite a war with China, but it also helps with whatever evil propaganda the US needs it for. Remember the detailed BBC ‘fact check’ and investigation into Israel’s first bombing of a hospital that basically bent over backwards to accommodate Israel’s bullshit about it being a Hama rocket? Their “independent” rocket expect was an ASPI ghoul.
I haven’t been following their falling out with the Australian government, but I’m guessing it’s partly because more and more they’ve been showing their true face as a US velvet gloved fist and local politicians don’t like being blackmailed by these yank ghouls. 20 years or so ago it was pretty much 100% Australian government funded. Now in both funding and form it’s pretty much entirely the US government (some from Taiwan, lol) and Yank (& Brit, our hands are dirty as fuck too) weapons/surveillance contractors including Lockheed, Raytheon, BAE, Thales, Northrop, Microsoft, Google, & that old CIA firm Oracle.
Some folks have no coherent ideology
“If I were Xi Jinping”
Ah the classic penal colony angloid consent manufacturing bot with more dumb takes.
If XHS is any indication, they already do. Making Ariel black in Little Mermaid apparently pissed off some very vocal Chinese members of that app
do not ask anyone on XHS about Indians or KoreansAlso, anyone else noticed the “China is not an immigrant country” posting there?
Also a lot more open antisemitism. Love the enthusaism for the fall of Israel, don’t love so much when folks start talking shit about jewish people in general
Yeah there’s definitely some culture shock and points of contention with our values. They also seem to take the 90’s “colorblindness” approach, and see anything else as creating division. And ofc some of them go full on Reefer Madness with what they think weed does.
But they don’t have the brainworms American politics create, so that’s a big plus. I think there’s a lot of potential value in this cross-cultural communication. I think most of them haven’t actually seen anyone explain or make the case for this or that take, because they just haven’t been in dialogue. I would say, don’t assume they’ll be unreasonable like chuds even if they’re off the mark on an issue.
Imagine going through a portal to the 90’s, except in this universe people aren’t anticommunist or religious. Some archic takes but way fewer brainworms than most places.
Yeah, it’s possible to have a genuine dialogue on things. Even someone who is relatively chuddish will hear you out.
The insistence that “negative peace” be maintained a bit more difficult for me to grapple with, but I’m hardly in a position where I should attempt to tackle that in the first place
do not ask anyone on XHS about Indians or Koreans
Koreans, really? Never heard of any animosity between Chinese and Koreans, except on weird nationalist debates on the real origins of Hanfu or Kimchi.
The “Lunar vs. Chinese New Year” discourse touches on it too.
The funny thing (but still inclusive really) is that…apparently they consider every ethnic group in China to be Han? It’s weird but it means everyone’s in the in-club. Imagine if racist Americans were like every American is actually white (so even PoC are considered white). Weird, certainly racist, but very inclusive; also not helpful to corporations and political parties who need us all to be at each other’s throats.
I’ve noticed the exact OPPOSITE. Every single ethnic groups is CHINESE. Han are Han. Wa are Wa. Hezhe are Hezhe. Yi are Yi. And so on. Everyone is in the “Chinese” club, though. This also includes newer members like Tibetans. They are Chinese now.
There is also no shame in a Han person dressing in the full traditional Yi garb, though. There seems to be no concept of cultural appropriation if someone does it because they love it and don’t claim it as theirs.
Additionally a lot of policies protect the minority ethnic groups. For instance the One Child policy in the days of old only applied to the Han.
For instance the One Child policy in the days of old only applied to the Han.
God, a similar policy in the US would have torn this country apart.
You don’t have to persuade me, fam I was already sold
…apparently they consider every ethnic group in China to be Han?
This sounds very wrong imo. They consider them to be Chinese, from my understanding.
As far as I understand in Imperial China lots of disparate people were brought into the ‘Han’ fold for political nation-building reasons. Cantonese and Dongbeiren are very different, but they’re both ‘Han’ for example. The PRC on the other hand seems quite keen on officially differentiating distinct official ethnic groups, but I guess it’s possible that old “inclusive” ideas are still around in niche corners.
You’re not wrong on everyone being firmly included under the banner of ‘Chinese’ though either way.
Isn’t that exactly what happened with whiteness as a concept? Used to be wasp only, now it even includes Italians and the Irish. Black people are also nominally let into the tent of “American” when it is time to shit on the “illegals”.
Don’t really see the need to give credit to this kind of chauvinism.
when it is time to shit on the “illegals”.
Don’t really see the need to give credit to this kind of chauvinism.
Ah, true. I hadn’t considered it, and actually I have seen this done many times.
most of the population is han, but there are 56? officialy recognized indigenous minorities that make up like 10% of the population or so. your ID will have your ethnicity on it for example
Ah, I wasn’t aware of that; admittedly my ‘evidence’ is anecdotal and comes from a few arguments I’ve seen with some folks in/from China where people were saying this region or that isn’t Han but that they’re simply classified that way. Probably a racist argument against Chinese folks that now that I dwell on it, probably went over my head.
as far as i know, a lot of populations have “become” han over time (thousands of years) for example people in the southeast being “nanyue” at some point before the tang dynasty, and a lot of manchu populations becoming han-ified during the qing dynasty and japanese occupation i think.
XHS should not, in fact, be taken as an indication of the whole nation of China
I can see the articles now:
China vows to stamp out DEI initiatives from their government. But at what cost?
Pretty sure if they have anything similar to dei in china it would look confusing to us because the diverse people hired because of it would still all look Chinese to us.
Edit: I’m going to edit this to include a statement saying that the purpose of dei is to increase diversity in your organization, which means if you have a pool of equally qualified applicants you might choose the diverse candidate if your team is all white guys, and you might choose the white guy if your team is all women or people from Sudan, diversity in your team has value and that’s really all it is about, especially among equally qualified candidates
Pretty sure they do have DEI in China. Minority ethnic groups are given additional seats in the party Congress (someone correct me if I’m wrong) . Ethnic minorities are also given preferential treatment for school acceptance
They also get financial aid and bigger dorm rooms lol
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In China people from ethnic minority groups get tax breaks, priority university places, extra welfare, etc etc lol. It would explode the single chud braincell if they found out about it
Well they think minorities are in camps getting mass murdered so ofc they don’t think about Uyghurs getting bonuses on 高考.
China’s been doing affirmative action type stuff since like 1949 lol
“Women hold up half the sky” vs “women who don’t want to be baby factories are destroying civilization.”
Iirc there are protections based on gender, disability status, and being from a rural area. Idk if there’s DEI as such, but there are protections roughly equivalent to the ADA and Civil Rights Act (Title VII).
Ethnic minorities get a bonus in the Gaokao, to the disdain of some Han people over here. Some people are quite vocally upset about how Uyghurs were allowed to have multiple kids and had an easier time getting into tertiary education.
I’m like motherfucker having a well educated, prosperous and stable region makes it harder for extremism to take hold (compared to even a couple decades ago) stop thinking about what’s happening in the past and present and look at the bigger picture.
China coming forth as the most diverse workforce with 29595920395 Micro Ethnicities listed in one job sector
“If I were Xi Jinping, I would hold my current beliefs and enact my current agenda.”
Ok yeah I guess so
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