Maybe silly but at my Korean classes there’s a seemingly “apolitical” guy working in IT who plans to work in China’s IT sector and we talked a bit about it. Just talked about how it’s exciting but wishes it was less difficult for him to go, that they’re making huge leaps in the IT field etc. Just nice to have a convo about it without Uyghurs or muh political freedoms or whatever coming up.
To restore balance, every time you see someone regurgitate western sinophobic propaganda on China on an inherently nonpolitical thing about China, you need to go to something nonpolitical about Europe and mention colonialism, the holocaust, Brexit, and their ongoing shitty treatment of the Romani pepople, then to something nonpolitical about the US and mention colonialism, stolen land, refugees in cages, going bankrupt for a hospotal visit, most school shootings of any country, highest wage gap of any country, most covid deaths of any country, highest per capita incarceration rates of any country, private prisons, Roe v. Wade, and their ongoing shitty treatment of Indigenous peoples and people of colour.