This week, we welcome the wonderful, brainy Rozi Ali, a journo friend who writes about Islamophobia and the US “war on terror.” We also dish about basketball and a kimchi-based spat between South Korea and China.
ttsgpod stop referring to anyone who is not reflexively anti-China as a tankie and dismissing their views challenge?????
On a related note, please stop claiming that anything from Chinese social media that paints China in a positive light is Chinese propaganda. Even if this is true, it's not like all countries don't use soft power as a geopolitical strategy (ironically, South Korea being a prime example), so I don't even know why it's relevant to the analysis.
Seriously, if you are going to dismiss the views of anyone that is not as rabidly anti-China as you are, you should at first have someone on that has those views so you can question them and learn their point of view, which is much more complicated than just Chinese nationalism. You had Brian Hioe on to ostensibly explain the viewpoints of tankies, but his analysis was overly simplistic and not materialist, as was his article about tankies which you had him on to discuss. (In addition, that article contained embarrassing factual errors like "Qiao instead takes the view that China is seeking to align with other socialist nation-states, such as Iran, Venezuela, and others in order to combat western imperialism..." --- Qiao doesn't take the view that Iran is socialist, and no one should because it is NOT socialist.....)
Maybe if you took time to consider the Marxist-Leninist left's views seriously, you wouldn't dismiss them all as tankies. Perhaps then your analysis of "forever wars" would do more than just allude to Western imperialism but really dig into how that also impacts Asia and Asian Americans other than immigration. Maybe that would help you find a more coherent approach to ending these forever wars that doesn't lead you to praise a Koch-funded think tank. Maybe then your analysis of the complex politics of the diaspora would conclude that it's all about food.
ttsgpod stop referring to anyone who is not reflexively anti-China as a tankie and dismissing their views challenge?????
On a related note, please stop claiming that anything from Chinese social media that paints China in a positive light is Chinese propaganda. Even if this is true, it's not like all countries don't use soft power as a geopolitical strategy (ironically, South Korea being a prime example), so I don't even know why it's relevant to the analysis.
Seriously, if you are going to dismiss the views of anyone that is not as rabidly anti-China as you are, you should at first have someone on that has those views so you can question them and learn their point of view, which is much more complicated than just Chinese nationalism. You had Brian Hioe on to ostensibly explain the viewpoints of tankies, but his analysis was overly simplistic and not materialist, as was his article about tankies which you had him on to discuss. (In addition, that article contained embarrassing factual errors like "Qiao instead takes the view that China is seeking to align with other socialist nation-states, such as Iran, Venezuela, and others in order to combat western imperialism..." --- Qiao doesn't take the view that Iran is socialist, and no one should because it is NOT socialist.....)
Maybe if you took time to consider the Marxist-Leninist left's views seriously, you wouldn't dismiss them all as tankies. Perhaps then your analysis of "forever wars" would do more than just allude to Western imperialism but really dig into how that also impacts Asia and Asian Americans other than immigration. Maybe that would help you find a more coherent approach to ending these forever wars that doesn't lead you to praise a Koch-funded think tank. Maybe then your analysis of the complex politics of the diaspora would conclude that it's all about food.
would NOT* conclude it's all about food