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Is it a sign of internal struggles that China is trying to foment foreign relations 'situations' to divert attention?

I really wish the world would rescue Tibet from China.



Ye, but how could one possibly do that?


Break the great firewall. Show the Chinese citizens exactly what the CCP is doing and hope that they revolt. Starlink should have the power to do that very soon.


Nope. It is a country by country basis and requires permission from the CCP. Without it they can blow the satellites up that are sending these signals into China.

From [0]

> The Chinese government would have to agree to let SpaceX build antenna dishes, or ground links, to send and receive data to and from the company's spacecraft. But that nation routes internet access for its 1.37 billion inhabitants through "the Great Firewall," a censorship technology that blocks foreign news, mentions of citizen uprisings (like the Tiananmen Square Massacre), or anything else Chinese officials don't like on the web.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-internet-satellite-co...


Chinese citizens generally know more about what the CPC is doing than foreigners. They're not nearly as information-starved or brainwashed as you probably think.

The thing that would really blow many people's minds is that most Chinese people support the types of policies that people in the West find disturbing. One of the things that really surprised me was the level of support for the One Child Policy, for example. Part of this is that the news media in the West generally do a terrible job of describing Chinese policies - they tend towards sensationalism and demonization. The other part of it is that many people in the West have a hard time understanding the priorities and mindset people in a developing country.


You know the Chinese citizens live there, right?

Consider that they probably understand their government better than you do. They saw a great coronavirus response followed immediately by a stellar response to a 100-year flood event, the kind that used to dislocate millions of people. Meanwhile, they can all see the results of the US system at present.


Starlink is a Musk project. So is Tesla's Giga production facility in Shanghai. Will he want to be forced to choose between them?


It's a good question and I wondered the same, why start all this ?

They probably could've had more success with the long game as the world became more and more reliant on them.

Now, it seems there is an urgent need to escalate ?




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