Without agreeing or disagreeing with them, we should accept that people have said exactly the same things about the USA, about the Soviet Union, about Russia, about Britain... And on and on.
I am not trying to play “whatabout,” but I do ask: Is there anything different about China’s behaviour as a superpower? Or are we just seeing a shift in which superpowers have world influence?
At the moment I write this, the front page of HN has an article about China and facial recognition... But also an article about US schools monitoring student emails.
Which seems to me like training a generation of citizens to understand that they live in a prison without walls.
I am not trying to play “whatabout,” but I do ask: Is there anything different about China’s behaviour as a superpower? Or are we just seeing a shift in which superpowers have world influence?
At the moment I write this, the front page of HN has an article about China and facial recognition... But also an article about US schools monitoring student emails.
Which seems to me like training a generation of citizens to understand that they live in a prison without walls.