We thought all the game companies in the past were great because we weren’t as in tune to what were bad practices, skullduggery, and just generally shitty behavior. Bethesda has always released bug riddled messes of games, just that community modding and the time frame they came out there weren’t many like that. Companies have always wanted to make money and did whatever they could to get it.
China has stated it would recognize not so much independence of Hong Kong but its self autonomy that allows it to run. They promised to the UK after the hand over to always respect that going forward. They held that up for a while but started pushing for legislatures and legislation that was friendly or directly from the mainland. When the expected upset came and people protested, they came down pretty hard on protests.
I know it was an extradition bill but there was a lot of valid concerns it’d be used to persecute unwanted dissidence and ship them to the mainland where they could simply disappear.
China seems to be forgoing the peaceful, long term route as of late.
That shows that we don’t need more surveillance of the general population, just of cops and those that hold office.
Crime is declining in general, and would decline further if the money going towards mass surveillance went toward social security nets and such.
No where near enough to be a punishment given how much they made since inception doing this. So much for the “for the children!” people doing anything useful.
I’ll not argue part of the reason for the portrayal of China in a lot of particularly USA media is to keep establishing that they’re an enemy we need to be ready to might. Much like the Soviets, North Vietnamese, and North Koreans. And I will not deny that the USA has a shit history of conquering people.
That said China is not wholly innocent in not doing the same. They still push for influence for soft power, so does the USA, control colonies which the USA does as well, commits genocide which the USA has done. I honestly see them more as rivals than enemies to be destroyed, and rivalries aren’t inherently bad. When they become heavily antagonistic, which I’m certain both country’s medias love to play up, is where it goes from rivalry to cold warfare.