Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.

  • American users have flocked to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu in defiance of security warnings.
  • Chinese and American users have engaged in surprisingly friendly conversations about each other’s lives.
  • The influx of American users could burden Xiaohongshu’s censorship mechanism, experts say.
  • gubblebumbum@lemm.ee
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    20 hours ago

    You do it by exploiting the billions outside your borders from countries even more poor like mine where they sell their garbage low quality products that cant be repaired or recycled, from shitty earphones to bikes that start breaking down in a year, taking advantage of poor people who cant afford to buy anything of better quality. China isnt better than us when it comes to exploitation and inequality.

      • dirthawker0@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        Chinese manufacturers build according to budget. They are perfectly capable of making high quality products, and do. The problem is a lot of companies (looking at you, Walmart) demand their Chinese manufacturers build products for a pittance – the manufacturers won’t say no, but they’ll find a profit for themselves by using lower cost materials.

        Ask yourself – if you were a woodworker and someone offered you $250 to build a small stand out of wenge, you’ll probably do a good job of it. If someone offered you $30 to build the same stand, and you really needed that $30, you’d make it with pine and just paint or stain it to look like wenge. Chinese manufacturers are no different.

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        17 hours ago

        I think the Chinese businessmen are exploiting slave laborers to produce cheap goods and export them to most of the world. Would you call that a mutually beneficial relationship?

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        18 hours ago

        Hold up. You think the Chinese are the ones deciding to manufacture low quality products, and not the capitalists who are ordering them that way?

        Chinese brands owned by Chinese capitalists operating with consent from the chinese state.

        spreading their wealth to those in need

        Using planned obsolescence and taking advantage of poor consumer and environmental protection laws to sell garbage to people trapped in a cycle of poverty isn’t exploitation? Also China ‘invested’ billions here too and we didnt get any hospitals. We got china flooding our markets with its shitty goods and chinese ‘businessmen’ running scam centers.

        They value mutually beneficial relationships

        they do have a mutually beneficial relationship with our dictators.

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          18 hours ago

          I love that capitalists attacking communists always end up accidentally attacking capitalism. Classic.

          • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            18 hours ago

            China is a capitalist country with aspects of socialism. it’s not really communist anymore.

            No one here is shitting on communists, were shitting on you for a thinking the Chinese are any different than us.

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            18 hours ago

            China is a capitalist shithole but for some reason its biggest defenders are always self proclaimed western communists.

            edit: we also have a few militant communists groups that like to blow up chinese nationals working for their govt every now and then.

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              18 hours ago

              What exactly do you think “capitalist” means? Because it sounds like you think any participation in markets is capitalism.

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                12 hours ago

                I think dengist policy introduced a capital holding class to China and that the workers don’t have democratic control of the workplace.

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                  12 hours ago

                  Fair nuance there, but they seem to be taking reform seriously. But we’ll see if that keeps up.

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            18 hours ago

            What do you think “capitalist” means? It sounds like you think it’s just market participation.