• Cyberwolf@feddit.org
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    48 minutes ago

    but saying that a Chinese company isn’t “under the control of Xi Jinping”, the guy who crushed Hong Kong for having too much independence and wants to do the same with Taiwan, is laughable.

    Just take that sentence at face value and consider the ridiculousness of actually believing the guy alone has that amount of crushing power.

    You’re just regurgitating unfounded US propaganda which, this being Lemmy, is very unfortunate to see.

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      the guy alone has that amount of crushing power.

      Nobody of right mind takes this at face value. This isn’t a pro wrestling heavyweight championship belt, with Jinping suplexing the Hong Kong protestors.

      It’s obviously as head of an autoritarian communist regime, using corona measures and a militarized police to suppress people for the extravagant act of desiring freedom from the CCP.

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        47 minutes ago

        But even that is incorrect.

        Yes, Xi Jinping is powerful as the Chairman of the party, but the communist party of China is not the military, and there is a fair amount of decentralization in decision making.

        Further, the guy above goes “look at how Xi is suplexing Taiwan?!?!” even though he isn’t because guess what, he doesn’t actually have the power to do so.

        Also, none of this has anything to do with the topic of EV production, which is in the hands of a private company which largely operates independently of the government, much like millions of other companies that operate in China.

        Which is why I said the dude is just spewing brainless US state propaganda and Red Herring.

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          Further, the guy above goes “look at how Xi is suplexing Taiwan?!?!”

          I think you’re the only one reading it that way. The rest of us understand that it happens within a context of an autoritarian regime.

          which is in the hands of a private company which largely operates independently of the government

          Independent untill the party decides they’re not independent. (Eg).