A very interesting and insightful take from a foreign journalist on the outside looking in.
He goes on to say
[Americans] were born into democracy and have no appreciation of what life is like without it. Chinese people, on the other hand, “have been bullied by rulers for thousands of years. We’re very familiar with these situations.”
Buddy that looks worse for you. The Chinese have been dealing with it for thousands of years but haven’t managed to do anything about it? If this was some kind of flex, it’s a weird one.
Why do you think it’s “a flex?” Are you by any chance a relatively young man? (Because taking everything as a competition is most often associated with that demographic.)
It’s not “a flex”. It’s people being worried about the US. I am too, because while I’m not American, I also know that the US is a significant world power, especially military-wise. (As in lots of expensive gear, although the soldiers are second grade.)
Why do you take someone worrying for you as them trying hurt you?
Trump is hurting you. This guy isn’t. He’s trying to help.
This guy tries to hurt me when I go to sleep at night. He hides under my bed with one of those electric tennis racket that zaps bugs, or in my closet, or another inventive place, and then zaps me and runs away chortling. And he is always naked. Always.
“look how I’m making fun of political violence even existing”
Youre hilarious, brother
Don’t be a gloomy Gus, be a sunny Sam!
I don’t think you understand context he’s giving, or the gravity of the situation in the US right now at all if you cannot parse and understand this statement.
Regardless of whether you’ve had a chance to fully realize and experience what these freedoms are like, they are being taken away from you as you type here, and you’re too jaded to feel it happening and respond properly.
That’s his point. Like a rich kid who has been rich all his life, then slowly becomes poorer and poorer until completely out of money. Only until he’s actually out of money will he realize that.
There’s an Americanism. There are dictatorships all over the world for millennia. They are incredibly hard to overcome. Source: world history.
Oh, no, poor willing slaves, born into a world they apathetically accept…
Is this the Chinese equivalent of the American “I’m too overworked to participate in politics”?
There’s that Americanism again.
Ok boomer
That doesn’t even make any sense.
Lol boomers clutch pearls about superior nationalities like both the US and China aren’t suppressing their youth unemployment numbers and diving face first into a population collapse.
Population collapse is a ridiculous problem. Why does a population need to grow endlessly? Are human beings a cancer?
It doesn’t have to work that way, but we have set it up where if there is a population collapse, then it ends up badly for regular people.
So people who want to mitigate suffering feel like it’s a problem.
There are many American reporters, Wang said, who report competently on China. But when I asked how the US media was doing covering the US, he burst into laughter. “If I were the New York Times, I would be putting curse words on the front page every day,” he told me. “F-word, F-word, F-word.”
Do you not understand what he’s saying here, or.….?
Oh - I think I do. And I think it’s brilliant.
