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by _bxg1 2292 days ago
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.

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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...

> For all we know it was their idea.

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