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
    626·
    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
      321·
      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
        81·
        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
          121·
          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
            5·
            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
      112·
      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.