The CPC has always allowed them to come in so long as they followed the laws like all the other American (every country actually) companies operating in China. If it was really about the market, they can just store Chinese users data in China. They can also choose not to fucking provide cover to terrorists in the country while they're at it. Tiktok ban is an actual ban in the US not a non-discriminatory regulation like it is for China.
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To be fair, if you're used to living under a government that took care of you, there's a certain level of evil that is very difficult to imagine for the average person. I think a lot of this has to do with projection.
Also, how are US ambulance fees even remotely relevant to a Chinese person's life? Like imagine you're some random middle-aged dude living in Xinjiang. What occupies your mind might probably be the US propaganda on the region's cotton. That is relevant anti-US news for you, where does the state of US healthcare even factor into any part of your thinking?
IMO it's not so much a failure of messaging as it is just people not having a reason to care in the first place.
The people who even give a shit about US healthcare past random curiosity on a good day are those actively looking to improve the healthcare system or liberals trying to shill for uncle Sam. If in the former, they already know what US healthcare is like and naturally dismiss it and if in the latter, they also know but just don't care and prefer to lie about it.
Eh, even if it wasn't destroyed, the atmosphere of fear these types of news creates is still desirable, especially if it leads to record lines at airports for flights booking it to NYC
Could be that after the airbases were attacked they just don't have the means to do that ATM besides scrambling a bunch of fighters from Cyprus to raid Beirut. I guess we'll see.
FWIW, their SG was also assassinated in 1992 and occupation papers were saying that Hezbollah was finished.
Welp, what's done is done. The question is what comes next. All out regional war tomorrow?
The guy was already retired for over 7 months so assassinating him was pretty pointless. If Xi was worried about him restraining power why not do it during the 10 years where he actually had influence? Yeah, there's conspiracies about his death floating about in the country but that just means the assassination hypothesis is even more absurd. Why would anyone risk a public backlash for essentially no gain?
Diaspora exists. Just for that reason alone, CCP wouldn't be accurate enough.