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Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it (www.theverge.com)

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[-] senseamidmadness@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

The history speaks for itself. China is less of a threat to other countries in the world than the USA is. Your idea that they're some international boogeyman that's going to take over the entire world and doom humanity is just you repeating "China bad and scary" State Department propaganda.

Even with China's human rights record being what it is, they don't export war across the entire world.

[-] natural_motions@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Who said anything about physically taking over the world? Like, yes, obviously China has imperial ambitions to expand their borders (limited only by the wests hegemony and the now undermined and faltering rules-based order) but that's not the influence I'm talking about. I'm talking about the normalization of anti-democracy and the technologically driven hyper-fascist state. The more power and influence China gets, the more fascism thrives wherever it has roots.

North Korea also hasn't been able to bomb a bunch of countries either, that doesn't mean anyone but an idiot would argue they should be given more influence.

Just like Russia, there's no global benefit to the CCP gaining more geopolitical influence, they aren't going to "moderate" the fascist elements in the west, they're going to inflame them in the interest of destablizing any kind of democratic norms.