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Rare footage from trial of Chinese general who defied Tiananmen crackdown order leaked online
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2025
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It's not anti China on its face. But the timing and context are, as well as the comments here. No, one here is watching the video even. They're just jumping to a conclusion they already had that makes them feel good about their shit hole western country by comparison.
We are being lead by war hawks that want to escalate a cold war with China. You're going to see more and more "leaked" information on China framing them as different and incompatible with "the West". That's all this is. That's why it's on "World News" and not a history sub discussing it in a meaningful way.
Seriously, go read the comments here and tell me how many are actually analyzing this in a historical context. It's just garbage talking about how China is bad and is still bad today. Half the comments replying to me are just ".ml/tankie bad". The same people that have been saying "China is going to collapse in X days" for the last 5 years.
ah, sure, I get how this is information warfare. But it's honestly pretty mild and I think on its own it presents more historical interest than confirmation bias. I do appreciate however how these things are meant to pile up and slowly manufacture consent.
tbh I haven't read once a prediction about China collapsing soon, maybe I haven't been looking in the right places. But anyone paying attention should be able to tell the opposite is happening
and to be entirely honest I stopped short at reading the article... given that the audience recording is apparently 6 hours long
Well, that's a mature response. My initial comment was mostly not really appropriate to this article in a vacuum; out of the context of the rest of the "World News" post that have been just a constant stream of cold war agit-prop against China. It's why it just bothers me.
Nothing is being posted to learn from China's success. It's not even being posted to learn from their failures. It's just being posted to manufacture consent as you said. That's where my frustration comes from. It's just western people eating up slop as we pay higher rents for everything in life. And accept that bombing brown kids and starting wars for oil are just part of our life.
You mean the six hour video that I'm assuming is in Mandarin? How about you tell us all about it since certainly you watched it, right? Right?
That's literally my point. My comment is in frustration to all the comments just using this article to uphold an incorrect world view of China as some authoritarian state that ships innocent people to foreign prisons for torture (shit, sorry, that's the US).
I never said I watched it. But literally no one here has. Or, honestly, even read the article. It's just being used for the purpose of cold war agit-prop.
Do... Do you expect people to watch a six hour video in a language they don't speak?
Yes. That's what I said. Definitely what you should take from that comment. Absolutely. /s