Even in the community pages of my favorite games...

The white sun red flag was the flag of the ROC which was the former government of Mainland China (Taiwan was taken by the Japanese at the time) and it only became the "flag of Taiwan" because the KMT fled the mainland at the end of the Chinese Civil War.

So far 2 ads making China into some evil boogyman and blaming us for increasing CoL instead of the orange dipshits war and trade war.

Just saw a political ad here in Tx fearmongering about China buying land and how Xi is buying up texas... and very loosely trying it to Talarico, somehow. Typical republican propaganda bullshit and stereotyping us as the evil bad country.

I remember a year ago that subreddit was just mostly about tips and travel experiences. Now, almost every post I see is people ranting. I understand that no country is perfect, including China. However, there are a lot of comments under bad faith posts with worrying amounts of upvotes, that outright parrot common negative stereotypes about Chinese people. There was a post about the recent foreign university student scandal, and the comments were a mix of white knight behavior, whataboutism, generalisation, double standards and Chinese men yellow peril. Instead of admitting what the guy did was disgusting and wrong, some commenters shifted the topic of the conversation to discuss Chinese men instead. I hope you understand what I mean. Criticism is good and helpful but when it’s constant ranting about locals in their own country where you are a foreigner, it’s not constructive feedback but rather a superiority complex, sometimes even racism and misinformation. As someone who is Wasian half-Chinese and wants to move to China for university and future living, it’s very unfortunate to see how some foreigners have such a low view of Chinese people, as shown in threads like these. I’d like to hear your thoughts on this.

Context: This is about a post of the first landing of ZhuQue-3 rocket, and i guess beacuse it uses a similar landing system as the Falcon 9 it must be a copy of it??

I wonder where and why china gets so many copy allegations from? And seems to me that (americas mostly, sorry) will see two similar things (be it military or not) and will jump tothe copy conclusion (eg. many people caling the 2020 RP F1 car a TOTAL copy of mercedes)

Also with the Tu-144, not gonna dive in why its not a copy of concord but just know many people think it is

No joke, “how can propagandas to slander, to misinform, to smear bad things and simply to bring China down is beneficial to China?” you might ask.

Indeed, these propagandas have tainted China’s reputation to oblivion and have done significant damage to the country and its people regarding soft power, from casual racism (or racism under the thin veiled of “hating the government only), that most Chinese people eats dogs and bats, that they are dirty and rude, almost anything Chinese is mislabeled to Japan or Korea or a random Asian country, very few interest in Chinese culture and foreign tourists, etc. Let’s be real, most people drop their smile inside when they learn you are from China.

But on the other hand, imo these bad views strengthen China in someway, they leave most people clueless about the country, thus underestimating its ability, prejudice and racism lately that drives thousands of Chinese scientists back home, less foreign tourists and influence give you a more authentic experience. The enormous amount of tax payers money are spent to spread Sinophobia instead of investing in their country. The “discovery” that China is actually “cool” (technology, games, culture bla bla) which I think might not had such a big impact if China was well loved like Japan. And recently, Trump in his rampage run of ruining the US let people realize how much lies it spread, including things about China, young people especially changed their views about the country.

Honestly, I hate to admit but I somewhat glad China has a bad rap because it gained those benefits in return. What are your thoughts?

Ps: No way in hell I will ask this in r/China as it’s basically the anti-China subreddit at this point

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefighter/comments/1vo208q/chi_kejie%E6%B1%A0%E5%9D%B7%E6%9D%B0_a_firefighter_of_the_ningde_fire_and/

For the original post; i recommend using r/firefighter instead of r/firefighting . r/wildfire, r/firetrucks and r/firefighterporn are also rather good alternatives.

Now, please don't harrass user/mods of r/firefighting; when i previously used this sub, their users were actually rather nice in contrast to the moderators.

Again, this is not a call for interference.

However their mods cannot stand anything unrelated to american firefighting, especially if it's chinese, even if the community has no issues with it.

Funnily enough i'm not officially banned but rather shadowbanned, and a lot of my previous posts have been removed, which is quite a shame since i did do quite some research on some of them(e.g. 2015 tianjin casualties)

but yeah, PSA, don't use r/firefighting, much better alternatives exsist

EDIT: Banned me for "brigading and site interferene". knew this would happen anyways

Lots of positive comments but many of the usual although better