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32 points

Right, every country and company engages in tech espionage. Yet, a lot of people in the west pretend as if China is some unique outlier in that regard.

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7 points

I understand that the pro China sentiments are strong here and I’m going to be downvoted. I live in the DC area and people around here are aware that everyone is involved in espionage. Russia does it all the time too.

No one believes that china is the only one doing this. Their capacity to do so may be stronger than most countries (same with USA)

It’s always going to be an issue for every advanced country.

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I’m not really sure what point you’re trying to make here. Yes, every country spies to the best of their capacity, that’s the nature of the game. While no sane person believes that China is the only one doing this, we constantly get media stories framed that way and there are a lot of mouth breathers running around screeching that China steals western tech. I think the only actual issue is the existence of copyrights and intellectual property. These stand directly in the way of human advancement and should be abolished.

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Well of course USA media isn’t going to say “USA got caught stealing IP from china” or anything like that. I’d wager that China doesn’t do it either lol. They both accuse each other while at the same time reaching into each others back pockets. Ones not better than the other.

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17 points

The reason you’re getting downvoted is probably more of a reflex than anything else. We get a lot of concern trolls here who love to sealion and generally be obnoxious and annoying.

Just be sure to actually listen to what we have to say (you don’t need to change you mind though) and respond appropriately and you’ll be fine. If you just talk past us and accuse us of things we don’t actually believe, yeah, you’re going to get downvotes, same as if you tried that on any social media platform.

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11 points

I kind of just wandered in here from /all and didn’t realize what kind of sub this was before I started commenting, lol. Very interesting to read though

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12 points

I understand that the pro China sentiments are strong here and I’m going to be downvoted

Hexbear doesn’t have downvotes, so you’ll just get a bit of flak from the much less active lemmygrad (no shade to them)

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7 points

I’m sitting at -6 on my first comment and -1 on second apparently. It’s fine.

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1 point

I’m sure the lobbyists and congresscritters in DC have a more realist view in private. Doesn’t really change what sort of sentiment they push to the masses.

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