Yeah, how DARE they want to be sovereign in their own country and keep foreign meddling out! Tyranny! Authoritarianism! Human rights violation!
Amazing how US neocons think they have a divine right to rule over the world.
Mandate of Heaven
What’s the point of making a comment like this? You’re just mocking something that no-one said.
I hear people say it all the damn time. That if China doesn’t want to be hated or seen as totalitarian, they should just submit to AUKUS/EU oversight, do what they say, and only run their country like the West does.
I don’t see how that’s relevant here. I’m sure you do hear people who say that dumb junk, but it would be nice to not bring up their generic junk on a specific informative post. It gets in the way of discussion of the actual post content.
Good. Don’t let China become US puppet just like Europe
Non paywalled link for those interested: https://archive.ph/fpcvw
Although the tdlr is basically “oh no everyone be scared, evil China is good at counter-intelligence now, however will the wholesome CIA get anything done?!”
thanks for the non-paywall link. Firefox reader view also seems to bypass it.
I didn’t get the same “wholesome CIA” vibe - definitely some sketchy bias around the Chinese govt, calling counterespionage arrests “kidnapping” is pretty rich when talking about a conflict with the government running the world’s largest prison system - but I felt like most of the critique was towards the CIA for hubris, and the OPM for collecting and then losing piles of sensitive data.
Like @triplenadir, I didn’t get that impression either. It looks to me like the article is emphasizing how effective the post-2012 anti-corruption effort was, why corruption in government is an existential risk, and how CIA carelessness ruined their clear advantage.
