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US is the foreign power that has the most influence on people in Canada dummy.

No, I'm not doing any double standard. What western governments do is demonstrably what westerners claim makes China authoritarian.

Yes, I expect the state bank to make loans for unproven ideas. This isn't nearly as outrageous as you seem to think. State funding in China is used precisely in this way to stimulate businesses in areas where China wants to advance right now. And if a dipensary or brewery was seen as socially necessary and viable they could get a loan like anybody else.

Ukraine is fighting an existential war because now that Russia has committed itself to military action they're not going to settle for the status quo. Best case scenario for Ukraine at this point is that there's going to be a rump state left in western Ukraine where nationalist sentiment is the strongest. Meanwhile, Vietnam is actually a good analogy, but with US deciding to drop support for western Ukraine once they realize the war is not winnable.

Wikipedia is incredibly biased when it comes to political topics and it's regularly curated by US government and corporations https://www.vice.com/en/article/nnk97k/the-internet-is-flooded-with-wikipedia-edits-made-by-government-and-big-oil

Western states already have established firm control and surveillance as well as anybody who's been paying any attention knew ever since Snowden revelations. Meanwhile, invoking whataboutism is a logical fallacy used to create a double standard for yourself and others. Claiming that China is authoritarian while the west is democratic while both do exact same things is just hypocrisy.

The reality is that there aren't any real risk for Japanese creators using weibo, it's just concern trolling.

Nah, it's not just threatening. France just passed a bill allowing police allowing police to remotely activate phone cameras and microphones for surveillance https://www.engadget.com/french-assembly-passes-bill-allowing-police-to-remotely-activate-phone-cameras-and-microphones-for-surveillance-210539401.html

And, you're right it's not the same as what happens in PRC where nobody suggested cutting off social media during four months of protests.

Well it's pretty clear that Japanese artists are perfectly happy using Weibo. Meanwhile, I think people in the west should be more worried about the way western regimes suppress speech and freedoms. Here's just one example. If that's what a free and democratic society looks like then Weibo is a pretty good choice if you ask me.

The government represents the interests of the class that holds power in society, and under capitalism that's the capital owning class.

You mean the same dam that even western media acknowledged that Ukraine was shelling?

NAFO trolls are very disappointed.

It's incredible that a grown ass adult could be so gullible as to genuinely believe that Russia has been shelling a power plant they control and have stationed troops at. Western propagandists really don't have to work hard because it's clear that the public lacks basic reasoning skills.