• ProletarianDictator [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Mr. Xi tear down this firewall!

    But fr do it, unleash the floodgates of the Chinese posters army on Americans. Let a billion & a half people who can all speak English run rougshod all over every corner of Western social media. Virtually no Americans speak Chinese, so the power imbalance is overwhelmingly favoring China. I want to see American news outlets demand the firewall go back up. I give it 36 hours before the “freedom, but at what cost” articles start getting churned out.

    • space_comrade [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Let a billion & a half people who can all speak English

      They really can’t tho. The company I work for works with some Chinese companies and the language barrier is insane, 95% of their employees can’t speak a word of English. Even the Chinese people that do speak English do it mostly on an intermediate level. I hear it’s getting way better with their younger generations though so that’s all probably quickly going to change.