Oh yes the Chinese Communist Party, the cake and eat it too party, where it somehow is able to access global markets and benefit from international trade rules, freely able to meddle in international affairs while embellishing its own interests.
It’s mind blowing how the desperation of late stage capitalism allows the CCP to operate within these frameworks.
In this specific case, Apple axed the show because Stewart was going to talk about China’s less savory behavior.
The show had been announced to have a third season, and then suddenly when Stewart was gearing up to tackle some of the issues around China, Stewart was instantly fired.
And this isn’t the first time China had demanded the firing, or public apology, of a prominent American who is even slightly critical of their government.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/hollywood-corporations-apologize-to-china
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-brief-history-of-corporate-apologies-to-china-2019-10-09
Remember when John Cena had to apologize to China for saying Taiwan was a country? It was about that time when I started refering to the mainland as West Taiwan.
Lol I’m going to call it that too. Taiwan #1!
Good ole Zhong Xina
Edit: “chili sauce”
John Cena makes a ton of money from China and so does the WWE. Not to mention the toys are made in China. Vince and Cena weren’t about to lose that manufacturing deal over some dumb shit.
Calling the Chinese mainland West Taiwan is like calling the northern US “The North Confederate States of America.” They lost a civil war and saying that is just silly. As for One China, that’s a current battle of internal politics. The current ruling democratic party supports cutting ties with China and joining the West. The nationalist party agrees that the mainland and China are one country. It’s not like it’s just China imposing it’s military might on Taiwan, it’s much more complicated than that.
I don’t do it because it’s accurate, but because it pisses off the CCP. About the same time as John Cena showed his lack of spine, I was forced to figure out how to remove the flag of Taiwan from software because just seeing that flag makes them butthurt. Just a tiny icon of a flag of a nation they don’t think is real.
That sort of vehement denial of reality is pathetic and hilarious, and I will continue to call them West Taiwan until they stop acting like whiny bitches. But in reality, they’ll attempt to invade and throw a generation of their children into a meat grinder in the Taiwan Strait because of their ridiculous nationalism.
And they didn’t resolve the civil war. If they had, the CCP wouldn’t have zero authority there. And they wouldn’t be complain so much about a flag.
I don’t think they’ll invade. I think they’re stalling until they can get their microchip tech up to speed and then they’ll turn Taiwan into the next Cuba and just embargo the fuck out of Taiwan. Invading would be incredibly stupid.
Embargoing Taiwan won’t work, either, because they have solid trade relationships with many modern economies.
China accounts for a quarter of Taiwan’s trade. Not to mention how many countries would bail if an embargo happened
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In the Capitalist religion the magic phrase that prevents all moral criticism of an action is “it’s just business.”
The only thing that can move faster than light is a capitalist shifting between “We’re a family here” and “It’s just business, don’t take it personally”
Only if you’re talking to a child or someone else who is in on it.
This guy gets it.
Businesses didn’t start pretending to care about civil rights until it was profitable.
It only became profitable because the ones saying no had their factories burned down.
Corporations would do literally anything for their “mah quarterly profits and mah shareholders”.
Seriously, people need to keep this in their mind at all times. Every single publicly traded company in the world would happily throw a bus full of children into a volcano if it got them a fraction of a point in next quarter’s numbers.
Yet people still defend the system that enables these greedy fucks, as if greedy fucks don’t exist and corporations will toootally work in a logical manner…
Peoples’ hubris toward the evils of their neighbors will be the death of humanity. Someone who fires a bunch of people to save money isn’t a “boss making hard decisions” They’re an asshole throwing people away to protect profit.
Sounds like you described every superpower.
This is an amateur take a best, but a strong unified China has historically always been the economic power house of the world. They’re so big they can trade with everyone, and since everyone wants to trade with them, everyone has an interest in not starting conflicts. When china prospers it’s usually a pretty good time for the wold. I, for one, welcome our Chinese overlords.
I’m confused, you use the term late stage capitalism, but you don’t see that China is clearly not the worst offender of meddling in intl. affairs to suit their own interests. Like, America has even more access to global markets than China does, and also meddles way harder. Literally overthrowing governments, rewriting laws, or just straight up bombing to dust levels of meddling.
Ah yes, the ol’ “but america worse” argument.
Explain why it’s bad argument in this situation. To me it seems nonsensical to criticize a country that isn’t remotely as bad as the worst people doing what you accuse them of.
It’s whataboutism.
It’s not whataboutism if the what about subject is literally worse on this specific topic. In order to be deflection, you need to be changing the subject.
It is exactly whataboutism. You are shifting the focus of the discussion by saying “what about america? They are worse.” The subject was not america being shit (it is) it was about China.
You are aware that more than one country is capable of being shit at the same time?
Say some country was denying Jews the right to vote, and we were living in 1940-1945. If you were criticizing that country, would it be whataboutism for me to tell you to shut up about them, because Germany is a far bigger problem for Jews? No, because in comparison to Nazi Germany, denying the right to vote is irrelevant. In terms of level of meddling in intl affairs, I do not think China is a relevant player in the arena when considering the top offender.
I’m just surprised it was the Republicans to back Stewart up.
There’s an aspect to Jon they like… Or at least use to their own advantage.
Jon tends to be pretty hard on China. Remember the controversy over his off-the-cuff comments as Colbert’s guest about covid and China?
I’d be more impressed if Congress was under scrutiny for their ties to China. And Russia. And Saudi Arabia.
China makes the hardware, I thought this was common knowledge. Of course they have Apple by the balls
Apple manufacturing moved a lot out of China. China still has a lot of the raw materials they need, and in quantities they need them, but recently Apple knows it needs to be faborable to them especially right now, if for nothing else to preserve the Chinese market share they currently have and try and keep relationships amicable post manufacturing move.
Free market go brrrrrr
There’s no such thing as a few market, never was. they fooled you
Not anymore.
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I was a fool like many, but no more.
The key question to ask when some exclaims in favor of free markets is always “free for who?”.
Free for who?
When I say a sandwich is free, who is it free for? There’s no such thing as a free sandwich. Someone bears the cost.
How do lawmakers demand something that isn’t a law?
Anyone can demand anything
I demand atheists and agnostics infiltrate their local churches and spread tolerance lol
I demand you take that back!
I demand ham.
They can request anyone to show up and speak about an issue, doesn’t mean anyone is required to answer them
The bigger story to me is that there is a House Select Committee on competition with the Chinese communist party.
I would hope China has an equivalent. Competition like this in science and arts only elevates humanity. It’s military competition we have to be careful of.
Cook must have a CCP handler sitting next to him at all times, handing out approval or disapproval from Emperor Xi
This would be a bigger deal if anyone had actually watched the first 2 seasons.
Cool 11-year old gauge hot take
If you really want to get serious about Chinese interference, this is a discouraging sign. An example of doing the bare minimum for the lowest of stakes.
Maybe start with Tik Tok and go from there?
You’re allowed to criticize China on TikTok.
Honestly, it’s not even about the show - it’s the fact that Apple, more or less, is basically censoring stuff that badmouths China.
If Apple can do it to somebody like Jon Stewart, then what other companies are willing to do this - or even already have done?
I get that China interference is a big deal, but actually dealing with it means getting serious and banning Tik Tok to start.
This is the smallest of potatoes. An excuse to make noise without doing anything.
As an aside, your name is weirdly relevant. I read it and thought for a second that you made the account specifically for this comment, but nope, it seems to be a coincidence.
lol. Nah, someone told me not to make my username Tim.
