Acknowledgement is lip service, especially decades after the fact. If they provide significant compensation, then yes. There is hope for better days for China too, but not by portraying them as unmitigated evil. I can't think of any significant nation that has caved to orchestrated, vested moral outrage and said "sorry you guys... we'll hold elections next years and play by your rules henceforth", especially when the very countries asking for this unrepentant about their own past transgressions costing millions of lives (atomic bombs, Iraq invasion etc.)
Social project run by western NGOs I guess?
What is 1.1 billion when the west steals like 2~3 trillion each year since ww2 from the global south.
You can smooth over a lot of mismanagement or save a lot of costs this way.
It also seems the dividend from the colonial days is not enough anymore to keep the West going given their infrastructure seem to crumble every year.
> I can't think of any significant nation that has caved to orchestrated, vested moral outrage and said "sorry you guys... we'll hold elections next years and play by your rules henceforth",
Governments regularly cave in due to protests in democratic countries. It happened in the Netherlands a few months ago, for example.
Moreover, it's fundamentally important the fact that protests exist.
Comparing any western democracy to a dictatorship is the worst form of whataboutism.
> Or perhaps not acknowledging that under the umbrella of democracy the same things happen, is whataboutism.
No. That may be denial, but “whataboutism” is a variant (or, really, just a different name for) the tu quoque fallacy that deflects criticism by accusing the critic of hypocritically ignoring the same action they criticize when committed by a friendly party (or committing it themselves).
A critic denying that a friendly party engages in the act they are criticizing isn’t “whataboutism”. It may or may not be hypcocrisy, denialism, or something else, but its not whataboutism.
OTOH, accusing a critic of whataboutism (and invoking a nonstandard – indeed inverted – definition of “whataboutism” to do it) when they point out whataboutism as a deflection technique, so as to deflect the criticism contained in the original accusation of whataboutism is advanced-level whataboutism.
> the tu quoque fallacy that deflects criticism by accusing the critic of hypocritically ignoring the same action they criticize
I'm not justifying what happens in China, I'm saying that the US democracy spent 65 million dollars of 1948-1970s money to control the politics of a sovereign allied and financed far right terrorist groups that killed hundreds of innocent people and still refuse as of today to release the documents about it.
Sometimes some democracies are simply not better than regimes.
They can be equally bad, you knew if it happened to your country.
So maybe is denial, but maybe whataboutism is the idea that "we did some things, but look at us, we are a democracy, we did it because obviously it was necessary to preserve it, because the others are the real bad ones".
How did they not "acknowledge" it? They did and they do. "They" call it "1989 incident" and despite the Western believe Chinese people are aware of that incident. And yet, most people I have spoken to in my countless trips to China follow the words of Deng Xiaoping that it was worth to sacrifice 3000 lifes for 30 years of stability.
Edit: by the way, it annoys me that I got trolled into posting something totally unrelated within a tech article. Why are all Chinese-related articles turning into exactyly the same direction in the past 3 years? I am tired of that.
> it was worth to sacrifice 3000 lifes for 30 years of stability.
No one knows what China would be like now had the CCP acceeded to the students' demands and liberalised.
Taiwan ended their long period of martial law around the same time too, and for a nation with so much stacked against it, you can hardly say they're doing badly.
See off-shore accounting and special tax jurisdictions, for a solid track record on Humans not having fradulent solutions (specially when profit is at stake).
As someone who doesn't work in advertising but is insterested in the space, I find your comment interesting but it doesn't help you are not providing much data for your hot take either. You mention Kickstarter, but looking at the list of crowdfunded projects, most of the successful ones were quite a while ago, if anything the most recent ones looks like scammy crypto coins, which would suggest advertising works rather for bad projects, a net negative.
> You mention Kickstarter, but looking at the list of crowdfunded projects, most of the successful ones were quite a while ago
If you want to see Kickstarter projects that failed because of lack of advertisement, I suggest you to go Kickstarter itself[1]... you may have better luck than going on the List of highest-funded crowdfunding projects, which is mostly unrelated to Kickstarter.
You'll see that most of them doesn't require much money to works. The only reason they doesn't get that money is their lack of advertising. Sure they could buy ads, but you'll see that they all are pretty niche too, they can't just get the same advertising as a bus stop, that would be just too absurd and cost them 100x more than their current goal.
You can believe they just doesn't deserve to exist, that's fair, but that's not the point. The point is to show the importance of advertising and how niche project just couldn't reach their audience if you make it harder and harder to reach.
20 years ago are not that long ago, neither 30, also the police does massive profiling during protests, I've had plenty of friends being profiled (pictures + videos + cross checks) during mild protests just because they were waivings signs.
let me rephrase, the italian police does actively get your pictures, cross checks you, and do a profile about you without even being recognized as a previously person of interest to law enforcement
1) The other examples in the same comment are more recent.
2) What happened there was so bad Italy was found in violation of ECHR. That nothing has substantially changed is in and of itself a major part of the problem.
I'm Italian too. It's a problem but honestly our famous cases of policy brutality would barely make the news in the USA, which IIRC had municipal police run off-the-records torture sites.
No matter what the calm and rational part of my mind tries to suggest, the louder emotional part of my mind is shouting the following:
"""You’re entertained by torture and murder of characters who had done nothing deserving of such suffering."""
That part of me wants to continue with a long rant, but by this point my rational self can sit my emotional self down with a nice cup of tea and a biscuit.
> How do you understand something like 'withdraw, with conversion' or 'withdraw, let your bank handle the conversion', without language? Is there an obvious image or button shape that'd signify this without prior knowledge?
Let's say you're in Europe and and have a card in dollars:
Right. Because you have numbers written in a common language, you can work out what your buttons did. Without that you wouldn't realise until you actually were hit with the conversion fee on one side or the other. If you changed the language and the numbers were written in Chinese, and then you blamed the ATM for being difficult to use without a translation app, how on earth is that not a problem with what you decided to do?
Like what though? Same could be said about any car manufacturer. Electronics wise the car will yell if there’s anything wrong so the only other thing I could think of would be something wrong with the chassis which hasn’t been an issue you see with Tesla’s. Most of the problems are cosmetic.
There is a class action lawsuit against Tesla because the model S and X suspension can prematurely break. They issued a recall in China, but not in the US.
I think the OP is referring to negative studies involving cannabis that receives funding from opposing groups. Alternatively, you have all the suspect studies describing miraculous plant properties paid by food company that put them in yogurt or health supplements.
Because it's _less_ "baked-in". Germany just recognized their part in a genocide, China has yet to acknowledge the Tiananmen massacre.