[s1k3b8]

That's par for the course when it comes to propaganda.

It's even worse when it comes to international news. How many times has china "conquered the middle east" or "colonized africa"? A lot more than you think if you follow the news.

"China's latest conquest: Middle East power broker - commentary"

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/28/chinas-latest-conquest-middl...

China is "colonizing" africa.

"China raises fears of 'new colonialism' with $60 billion..."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/03/china-invest-60-...

When we actually invade and conquer the middle east, the media portrays it as "bringing freedom". When we actually colonize africa, the media portrays it as "aid".

Of course it isn't just the west spreading propaganda, china does it also. It's why it comes to geopolitical or controversial events, you need a wide variety propaganda to get as honest an assessment as possible because every side lies about something and is honest about other things.

[throwaway1997]

The author of the article is called Yifan Xie. I don't think it's anti-china propaganda.

[sdrothrock]

I don't have anything to say about whether or not the article is anti-China propaganda, but I just wanted to address this comment because there's some underlying assumptions being made here about names and ethnicity.

In this day and age, I don't think a name is guaranteed to tell you much about a person. It's a bit fallacious to say "she has a Chinese name, so she's probably not against China."

She could be from Taiwan or Hong Kong, both of which have plenty of reasons not to like China. She could also have been born and raised by Chinese, Taiwanese, or Hong Kong parents in any other country.

I have an incredibly "white" name, but I'm ethnically Korean. I know I'm an outlier, but it gives me first-hand knowledge that using names to assume things about people's ethnicity (and from that, their beliefs) is not a good tactic.

[baot]

She lives in Hong Kong.