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  and viewing it as a massive geopolitical mistake.
  
  well, they weren't wrong about that
context: Ryan McBeth did a great YouTube short on this today.
  If you are worried about "spy balloons" but you have TikTok on your phone, you need to give your head a shake. >
  
  I really don't think anyone fits that description tbh.
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  Edit: Oh how wrong I was. >
  
  Lol my dad legit hates China and has TikTok. Uhhhh >
  
  Dad doesnt use TikTok but hates china. Why do all our dads hate China? I mean fuck the CCP but it seems our dads were hating china before it was cool >
  
  They were probably around to see stuff like Tiananmen Square being aired live. >
  
  Shitting on the Chinese Communist Party is not the same as shitting on Chinese people. It's important to not conflate these two things. In fact supporting the CCP is kind of antithetical to supporting Chinese people since there has been no institution in the world responsible for more death and suffering of the Chinese people than the CCP. >
  
  For sure.  The US government was better aligned with China's interests than the other powers of UK, Netherlands, and France around the 1900s up through WWII and helping to liberate them from the Japanese.  Some of that was driven by white Christian missionaries, but it was positive in China's favor nonetheless. Domestic sentiment was bad and racist, but diplomatically the US wasn't the biggest actor in the century of humiliation.  There was  also significant blame tossed around between US politicians about who was responsible for China going communist and viewing it as a massive geopolitical mistake.