The trend has reportedly sparked a backlash from some in China due to safety reasons. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The trend has reportedly sparked a backlash from some in China due to safety reasons. Read more at straitstimes.com.

    • wimpysocks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      210·
      1 year ago

      Why does the allegiance to country matter here? Am I missing something? Would we ask to get news about some silly domestic trend from a non pro-Washington source?

      • scorpionix@feddit.deEnglish
        171·
        1 year ago

        Because it normalises the site as reputable source. Yes, there are most certainly some unbiased articles there, but at the end of the day it is still a propaganda tool. Russia uses the same playbook with RussiaToday: Tons of propaganda and some factual news sprinkled in between, so they can point to those and claim “Its not just propaganda”.

        • RelentlessArts@feddit.ukEnglish
          71·
          1 year ago

          Completely agree but are we going to do the same for western sources which depending on the source do the exact same thing.

          • scorpionix@feddit.deEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            Yes and many do. I.e. Fox News is a prime example of a western propaganda outlet which IMHO shouldn’t be taken seriously as a source of information.

            • RelentlessArts@feddit.ukEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Yeah thank fuck, was just making sure we didn’t have the western version of tankies here lol. Fuck fox news and fuck Murdoch.

      • Cloudless ☼@feddit.ukEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Being pro-Beijing doesn’t just mean an allegiance to China, it means that the media supports the CCP which is an oppressive government that constantly violate human rights.

        We say pro-Beijing because it is about the government, not the country.

        But tankies always struggle to understand the difference between a government and a country.