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demi7en 🎗🇪🇺World's democracies condemned the crackdown in Hong Kong, but did nothing to impose costs on the CCP dictatorship. Instead business (read: Chinese exports) only grew and grew. Gotta empower them despots! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Hong Kong's pro-democracy struggle presented an opportunity for democracies to stand up against dictatorship, but we failed miserably.Giving the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CCP</a> yet another free pass (after its repressive occupation of Tibet in 1950-1951 and the 1989 Tiananmen massacre) surely emboldened <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#putin</a> to invade <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> in 2022.Repression of Tibetans, Uighurs, South-Mongolians, Hongkongers... or a billion+ voiceless Chinese brought no consequences, but at least the invasion of *European* Ukraine gave us Europeans a limited wakeup.It's not enough. We could have aided developing democracies when the Soviet empire fell in 1989-1991 and *not aided* repressive regimes. Instead we doubled down on doing business without limits and empowered the likes of Chinese dictatorship.There are things I love about Europe, and things I am deeply ashamed of. Talking about human rights while empowering despots belongs in the latter category.Some foreign individuals did "Stand with Hong Kong" though. At least one here in Mastodon is, as always, still busy fighting authoritarian takeover. Now in her homeland of the USA.“Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.“ — Nelson Mandela<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Hongkong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hongkong</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Tibet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tibet</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Uighurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Uighurs</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ccp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ccp</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#china</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/EuropeanDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EuropeanDefence</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AxisOfDespots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AxisOfDespots</a>

demi7en 🎗🇪🇺Some say you can tell peoples' character by how they treat their animals.I'd argue you can also tell their character by how they treat their neighbours. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genocide</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#imperialism</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Ukrainewar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukrainewar</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Tibet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tibet</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Tibetan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tibetan</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/EastTurkistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EastTurkistan</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Uighurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Uighurs</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SouthMongolia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthMongolia</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russia</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#china</a>

demi7en 🎗🇪🇺It's such a brutally basic question.Would you buy plastic nazi trinkets? Cheap nazi electronics?Would you watch nazi satellite "news"? Play computer games by nazis?Would you use nazi apps that can access all your private data? (their own networks being only accessible to the nazi party)Would you send nazis your industrial base and your bankers to finance it?From the point of view of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Tibetans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tibetans</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Uighurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Uighurs</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SouthMongolians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthMongolians</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Hongkongers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hongkongers</a> and most of their current neighbours worried about pesky "<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/lebensraum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lebensraum</a> issues", the Chinese dictatorship are like nazis, just without the _express_ corporeal extermination programme.Yet nearly everyone merrily does business with them. Even the Jewish state... They have full WTO access to abuse as they will. Those they trust with passports go on foreign holiday tours. Unlike those denied *exit*...Kindly explain to me why.It's not 1945. They overthrew their republic in 1949 and went on to commit atrocities they've erased from their subjects' memory, and apparently from the memory of most free people as well. The key thought driving them forward is "biding time and hiding strength" until they can erase *<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a>* — the one thing that they fear and hate more than anything. They're buying off (not only) developing country elites at a pace that would make the East India Company blush.I suppose Lenin's lightbulb moment of "selling capitalists the rope with which to hang them" didn't go the waste after all.<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CCP</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PRC</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#China</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/chinazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chinazi</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictatorship</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/zeitenwende" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zeitenwende</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/HandelOhneWandel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HandelOhneWandel</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greed</a>

demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<a href="https://journa.host/@anneapplebaum" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@anneapplebaum</a> If democracies don't finally begin pulling together and fighting the spread of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> *everywhere*, more and more developing democracies will fail and fall into a pit of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictatorship</a> where civil society will be deprived of any possibility of organizing opposition again.We know which regime is driving these "developments", but bankers and industrialists from democracies are still queueing up to kowtow its Leader while lobbying at home to ensure business continues as usual.One sometimes wonders what <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Tibetans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tibetans</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Uighurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Uighurs</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SouthMongolians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthMongolians</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Hongkongers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hongkongers</a> and all the other silenced subjects of repressive regimes (read the article) might think about the ethics and moral backbone of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/democracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracies</a>.

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