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Oh, the old tit-for-tat makes everything OK argument. Because the implications in both directions are exactly the same, aren't they. Well - yes, to someone who can't tell the difference, sure. And most of the deals you are referring to are in fact, joint ventures with China's government. Free market? OK, to someone who can't tell the difference. But also - a quick point. Interesting how quickly this very simple post about a business transaction has turned into an unsubstantial ideological impasse. "Let's just agree to disagree," m'okay?
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LOL, there's a big switch in Beijing that tells you when your movie isn't acceptable. It's default setting is "on". But it's all open and free market, isn't it, just like Chairman Xi said it was at Davos. Tsk tsk, America, free market is good. Except - you can't even begin to compare market openness, as an American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai recently reported that most businesses are finding it even more difficult than ever to do business in China. Fact.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...624539060e8_story.html?utm_term=.3844e2934941
The US market is one of the most open in the world. The China market, one of the most closed. Fact.
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"Government. China is a one-party state, with real power lying with the Chinese Communist party. The country is governed under the constitution of 1982 as amended, the fifth constitution since the accession of the Communists in 1949."
www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/world/china-government.html
I don't think they are calling themselves anything else but Communists at this point. Yes, they are using capitalism, but clearly bending it toward one-party service, as evidenced by the previously stated fact and reference.
Now we all know that Communism is BS, just some pretty window dressing on which to hang raw predatory barbarism against a disarmed and gullible populace, but that's beside the point for now. If you ask me, I think China's main ideology is "Dumpology". As in trade, environment, propaganda brigade, noise, education, and border encroachment. But that's not fact, just the opinion of someone who has lived in China for a bloody eternity) Naive? Do you mean, as opposed to the worldwise wisdom of consuming without question,
Jedi Master? Indulge yourself. Could you tell the difference?
And - Communism is "without prejudice"? But some can't see how that very statement is a prejudice? Now who's being naive. Communism engenders conformism. Conformism is rank prejudice against diversity and individuality - and what's worse, it ceases reasoning function. What a load of quality manure.
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Stalin is dead, but his crap lives on in North Korea. Is Toyota in the business of supporting ISIS? They seem to like Toyota trucks in the desert. I'm trying to understand your argument here. Propaganda for political oppression is the same thing as marketing for commercial purposes, does that about cover it? OK! To someone who can't tell the difference.
Now is the point where you call western media biased and all the people who believe it suckers, because media is supposed to be centrist propaganda, or something to that effect.
You can rationalize anything - doesn't make it the final word. And funny how China knocks off US scapegoat excuses but cherry picks which other aspects of the US to knock off - neglecting things like social responsibility, internet, free speech, or one's right to be alive, let alone privacy. And I'm not exactly sure how a "government" can rule "above laws" without it being simply "rule of the gun".
But again, to bring this thread back down to Earth (since it's not my job to educate for free), Star Trek is now a political property - and if one wants to consume anything without understanding its origins, one can knock oneself out. Go nuts. What's the worst that could happen?
"Progress!"
