[celticninja]

The Chinese are people like you and me. Yes their government needs a lot of work, but people are people and we need to remember that more.

[grecy]

I'm not American or Chinese, so I read your statement as:

The American are people like you and me. Yes their government needs a lot of work, but people are people and we need to remember that more

[celticninja]

I am neither American or Chinese either, I have no idea what point you are trying to make.

[bamboozled]

They are essentially saying, both governments need a lot of work.

[bamboozled]

Incredibly well said

[dexterdog]

Show me a national government that doesn't need a lot of work.

[scarejunba]

Norway's runs pretty well, powered by excellent stewardship of their sovereign wealth fund. Everyone needs work yeah, but a lot of work, I don't know.

[grecy]

New Zealand is doing great right now, Jacinda is easily one of the best leaders on the planet today.

Denmark is of course doing well, as are Sweden and Norway.

[ackbar03]

hear hear

[_bxg1]

Sure, but there's no way one of their billionaires would be allowed to take an action like this without discussing it with the CCP first. For all we know it was their idea.

I'm not saying it's evil or that we shouldn't accept it, I'm just observing the optics and the fact that there's no way the CCP didn't consider it from this perspective beforehand, regardless of any other motives.

[justicezyx]

That's definitely the case.

Powerful people have their sphere. They cannot just doing things without staying in their community.

But that's not a novel conclusion, humans are social animals...

[crooked-v]

> For all we know it was their idea.

So what? Even if it was, no-strings-attached charity is no-strings-attached charity.

[FpUser]

Very nicely put. Kudos.