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0 pointsonepointsixC5y ago0 comments

Consider Document Number 9[1], and the fact that the CCP considers your existing Irish political system and liberal ideology as a threat and one which it is actively working to undermine. You already know what it's like living in a world which the US is a dominate super power, that's what the West has experience in the past 70 years and it had created some of the greatest prosperity both the US and West have experienced in their existence.

A dominant China is interested in promoting their own values of Xi thought. And they're working very hard to promulgate it. Their coercive ability is remarkable in how it's already transformed Hollywood. Their ability to do so will only increase.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Number_Nine

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the_af5y ago

> the fact that the CCP considers your existing Irish political system and liberal ideology as a threat and one which it is actively working to undermine

For the last decades, the US has been actively trying to undermine -- mostly covertly, sometimes more openly -- leftist parties and organizations in Latin America (more often than not completely unrelated to China), so...

amaccuish5y ago

> Consider Document Number 9[1], and the fact that the CCP considers your existing Irish political system and liberal ideology as a threat and one which it is actively working to undermine.

You have quite literally also just described the US.

"China and Communism are a threat which we should seek to undermine". It works both ways.

onepointsixCOP5y ago

Xi Jingping considers the promotion of liberal values, human rights, and democracy at their core to be "arrogance, prejudice and hatred". This goes beyond one power vs another, every democracy is under threat.

[1]: https://www.politico.eu/article/xi-jinping-turned-me-into-a-...

kchr5y ago

This.

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