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There is a lot of Anti-US posts.
Some are EU-flavored (which I'm fine with).
But then you have a lot of pro-PRC flavored types which is just cringe. Like "I'd rather trust China" or "I'm rooting for China against the US" some BS, like.... ?!? 🧐
The EU is right there! Why choose China when you literally have a functional democracy elsewhere?
There's just a covert (not that covert actually) operation trying to promote China as this some sort of beacon of prosperity, and some even start to belive that China has "free healthcare" like what lmao
Like... Anti-US post are fine, just don't promote China as a replacement, its not any better.
EU is like "hooray we banned curved cucumbers!", and china is like "we built 48,000 km of high speed rail in 2 decades"
Chinese infrastructure isn't particularly built to last.
It's called Tofu Buildings, and the Chinese government regularly suppresses media and the populace from finding out about the lacklustre building standards throughout China. Whenever there's a building collapse China is quick to censor it, even posts calling for help to look for survivors.
Was the infamous "covid hospital" they built in like a day one of those tofu buildings?
ooo, what's that?
Ah, it was 8 days not one, but definitely some propaganda fluff piece.