The US government banning anything based on suspected use of forced labor is laughable. Pretty blatantly anti-China, and very hypocritical when a lot of US states use glorified slave labor. It is quicker to name the large US companies that don’t use prison labor than the ones that do.

I don’t think Israel’s government cares.

Classic playbook for him and his successive governments: constantly trading human lives for political power and votes.

“TikTok does what every social media company does but this time it’s Chinese so it’s bad” is what this headline should really say.

Table tennis is one of those games that takes such an insane amount of finesse. Every time I’ve tried it I’ve felt so clumsy. How could anyone think it’s easy?

You should read the article – they actually tested and proved it won’t melt down when it loses all active cooling.

That’s awesome – for folks who didn’t read the article they actively tested the reactor’s passive cooling by shutting off all its power systems. It cooled itself to ambient temperature with no meltdown in less than 35 hours with no active coolant flow.

This is never a popular thing in any country when it’s attempted.

Looks like even Chinese citizens aren’t immune to “Murica best freedom” propaganda.

Remember: when China does it, it’s bad and evil. When the USA does it, it’s patriotic and courageous and fighting for world freedom.

Not once in that report did the UN refer to it as a genocide, as I stated

When it comes to Xinjiang, I trust the UN’s own report that there isn’t a genocide happening

The sourcing is nebulous by their own admission and the phrasing of the entire article is overtly negative and inflammatory. It could be entirely made up and we have no way to prove it true or false.

I don’t believe a single word the CIA says about China and neither should anyone who is interested in the truth.

Their sourcing is, by the article’s own admission, nebulous. Don’t trust a single word the CIA says about anything related to China.

Source: Radio Free Asia, aka the CIA, who have obvious material interest in smearing China as much as possible. China may have problems but the bias here is pretty overt.

“US government official agrees with position of US State Department propaganda, more news at 11”

Portable gaming died because of smartphone gaming, unfortunately

You have guessed right. The US government had a massive hand in the creation of modern social media, such as a significant amount of funding for Facebook during its startup phase. The intelligence agencies are mad that they can’t pull data from TikTok or influence its algorithms, on top of the American social media companies wanting to kill off their foreign competition as much as possible.

This bill has nothing to do with data privacy because if Congress cared about that they would’ve banned other platforms too. It’s about control and unfair competition.

The “data privacy” argument is bullshit and the people pushing for this law know it. That’s what is being sold to people but it is not why this TikTok ban got passed. It got passed because American social media companies are pissed that TikTok is outcompeting them for the attention of young people, and because the US government has a heavy hand in what algorithms are allowed to push on Facebook and Google and others. A good portion of Facebook’s initial funding came from government sources.

“Data privacy” is just an excuse. Lobbying from the intelligence agencies and social media companies is why it’s really being enacted.

The history speaks for itself. China is less of a threat to other countries in the world than the USA is. Your idea that they’re some international boogeyman that’s going to take over the entire world and doom humanity is just you repeating “China bad and scary” State Department propaganda.

Even with China’s human rights record being what it is, they don’t export war across the entire world.