When China’s prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn’t just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was a confluence of state repression and the sometimes capricious attention of a Western audience that, as she asserts, often views Chinese activists more as ideological tokens than as genuine human beings.

  • RunningSpaces@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s mainly due to the fact that to us Westerners we wish we could have the stability in China. I will say I personally see China as a state that will crumble and then it’ll reform to different communes (that is my hope). Or we get Romance of The Three Kingdoms but Cyber core