> except when you ask US/western models what happened at Tiananmen Square they'll give you an answer instead of being blocked by an authoritarian government.

The Chinese models already do that with the absolute minimum of coaxing.

▲ PaulHoule 13 hours ago | parent [-]

That's like asking what happened at the National Mall!

In addition to the incident you were thinking about there was a large protest in 1976 that the current regime would rather you don't know about, Mao announced the formation of "The New China" there, there were important events in the Boxer rebellion, and many more!

	▲	oliculipolicula an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks to your-- if I may say so as a fellow schiz--- Writing style. It's hard even for me to tell whether you're trying to look hipcat here.. (Is it even possible to exude "political" cool? Mamdani. Not Garry Tan.) [Now now. I have not fully absolved myself of a narcissistic and/or stalker profile, but please do bear with me] The red-line between the mods and we seems to be this: `Cool deeds or cool needs (ie, lifestyle/personality) first?` It feels like you align with me on the idea that "coolness" should be a universal metric of social status. Right? For example, Elon is far from being a cool person, but he has seen or done cool things, so if he were to write a comment (anon or not) about his experiences building PayPal, it would instantly make highlights.. I ("violently") disagree with that, but am working on the counter-argument!! Where this is relevant to the China question. The Chinese people(?) think so too!! In fact they aspire to purely USian cool-needs (they seem to perceive a cool-gap, and bully for them(?), cool is the opposite of something to strive loudly for) In contrast to Japanese (or Thai, or HKers [labubu?]), who have their own native honest to goodness cool. (Related to the fact the USian center-right are in love with them.?.?.) To the Chinese (or Vietnamese, or Korean) in the street, is Elon cool? Yes. I think so.