▲ | sanderjd 13 hours ago | |
Nations being unwilling to allow their rivals to own their domestic media has literally nothing to do with that. The UN and is state diplomacy, not media policy. One has nothing to do with the other. Also: > They weren't trying to propagandise children, they targeted adults. I'm not sure I've ever read a more historically illiterate statement. | ||
▲ | roenxi 9 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> The UN and is state diplomacy, not media policy. One has nothing to do with the other. If you don't believe state diplomacy is related to propaganda, then I think I should be even more insistent about asking what, exactly, do you feel the Chinese are supposed to do here? They're going to swoop in, "influence" everyone, and then it will have no impact on US-China relations. Maybe you believe it will have a huge impact on industrial policy? (Possibly resulting in the US adopting a policy of outsourcing production to China? I might ask in a more mischievous mood). > I'm not sure I've ever read a more historically illiterate statement. That isn't the strongest argument I've seen today. bobthepanda's point still seems accurate - you haven't nailed down specific concerns, as far as I can see you've just identified that Nazis were foreign and China is untrustworthy [0] ergo the Chinese can't own a US media company. I'm not even convinced that is the wrong outcome, but the concern doesn't seem to be principled to much as you're just abstractly worried about foreign views without much reference to what they are or what impact they'll have. [0] I see an irony here - the Nazis were implacably opposed to the Chinese communists on at least two ideological points - the Communism and the Chineseness. |