I don’t know what this rant is about, but it has nothing to do with the posted article, at least that’s apparent.

@[email protected]

It’s amazing that you are citing the Chinese Ministry but could not find the Australian government’s response.

The Australian Government has expressed its concerns to the Chinese Government following an unsafe and unprofessional interaction with a People’s Liberation Army – Air Force (PLA-AF) aircraft.

On 11 February 2025, a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft conducting a routine maritime surveillance patrol in the South China Sea experienced an unsafe and unprofessional interaction with a PLA-AF J-16 fighter aircraft.

The PLA-AF aircraft released flares in close proximity to the RAAF P-8A aircraft. This was an unsafe and unprofessional manoeuvre that posed a risk to the aircraft and personnel.

Is it britophobic if you criticize the UK? And europhobic when being critical of the EU? - No one would likely say that, I’v never heard it.

It actually is something terrible. If it happens also in the UK and anywhere else doesn’t make it better (but feel free to post a new article here on the UK malpractice, I am curious whether there will be a similar whataboutery like, “But this happens also in China” - what do you expect?).

This is pure whataboutery, and it does not enhance debate culture here. This is why I end this discussion.

Downvote for whataboutery.

@Stephen Darby

Congratulatoins for your first post. You are right, whataboutism is widespread here on Lemmy.

As an addition:

Modern slavery in China

Since 2018, evidence of forced labour of Uyghur and other Turkic and Muslim majority peoples has emerged in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Uyghur Region). […] Forced labour imposed by private actors is also reported, in addition to forced marriage and organ trafficking, with vulnerability primarily driven by discriminatory government practices. While China demonstrated some efforts to tackle modern slavery through sustained coordination at the national and regional levels – including by adopting a new national action plan for 2021 to 2030[…] – its overall response is critically undermined by the use of state-imposed forced labour.

… doing things properly and everything is local then Deepseek reportedly has some efficiency advantages that make it worth considering over alternatives

DeepSeek isn’t uncensored if you run it locally (https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/28978937), and this is just one issue among many others.