Thawing Cold Wars with Cultural Exchange

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https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/%E7%BD%91%E7%BB%9C%E8%AF%84%E8%AE%BA%E5%91%98

Absolutely correct.

I was thinking that too. While I'm not a Tiktok refugee, I'm signing up there anyway.

I downloaded TikTok for the first time just a few days ago. I got rid of my FB years ago and never had Insta. Reddit less than a year.

I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. It was much different than I thought. More of a community. Lot of silly stuff for sure and no doubt some people hawking bad products and in general kinda scammy folks. But also, a lot of really cool people. I didn't expect that. Before it was shut down I jumped on the Red Note app. That is a lot of fun in just the day I've been on it.

So, now that 'the clock' is back I'll stay there until Zuck gets a firm grip which it appears is already happening. And I'll continue with Red Note for sure. It's great learning about what China is like, day to day life, etc.

Make no mistake: the new Cold War is still taking place. This app is soft power exerted by the Chinese. The people view themselves as part of the collective and are being friendly so to keep not only Americans but also other nationalities on the app. The collection of data significantly impacts the AI race (training data). Also, the Chinese are asking Americans innocuous questions demonstrating to the Americans how much better the Chinese system is so as to undermine Americans’ trust in their own government (although, frankly, the Americans who have gotten to the stage of giving an even more Chinese app than TikTok their data out of spite probably have crossed the point of no return). And they have the right to do that as much as Westerners have preached about human rights and democracy to “less civilised” non-Westerners since the end of World War 2.

Source: I’m a Singaporean ethnic Chinese and my country is neutral and will not side with either the US and China for as long as possible (we are militarily more aligned with the US and economically more connected to China, and culturally it depends on which generation we are talking about). I work in AI and I foresee China leading the AI race and being way more likely than the US to implement universal basic income. Would I welcome a world where China topples white supremacist identity/ideology of the past couple centuries? Yes. I’m just pointing out how the Chinese think about warfare and how shrewd they are about it.

The Berlin Wall of the Internet is falling. Both sides discover that they are human beings rather than demons. This could be a historic moment. Politicians on both sides are as slow as ever. I wonder who will blink first (ban rednote).