FiniteBanjo

Worst part is they don't even need the money right now but are claiming they do.

7z

They don't actually need it, unfortunately. It's a bit disingenuous of them to claim they do.

Just a heads up, Wikipedia has been operating with huge margins, they're completely safe and do not need donations right now.

You're accusing the USA of secretly doing the thing China openly does and you think this is a good defence of China?

Many many more companies were completely destroyed by the nazi regime and even those that survived were destroyed during the following reparations and occupations.

The real winners were the foreign tech companies like IBM. I wonder if you can draw any paralels there?

They might make some decisions against their own interests in the name of lowering taxes, but they can't profit off of a country of dead bodies and if you live under an autocracy then so will they.

Chinese government has no such incentives holding them back.

I can tell you're making an analogy of how Walmart pushes out smaller stores in towns,

but after Sam Walton died Walmart has sold primarily Chinese products,

so, yes, exactly, in more ways than one.

But at least they don't want to either kill you or force you into autocracy.

You think Kamalla Harris would have destroyed democracy?

Because China promoted Donald Trump and the GOP with TikTok leading to the largest conservative shift among youth ever recorded.

Its hard to imagine the foremost surveillance state just didn't notice it all that time. China isn't exactly an anarchy of roving gangs where billions of dollars move around unnoticed.

One thing we do know is that the Chinese government took action to stop it but that could just be that they were becoming arrogant, outliving their usefulness, or perhaps about to get caught and reveal ties to the state.

Well, sort of, we're currently manufacturing high end ram by shooting gamma rays at an ultra smooth deflection mirror and moving the silicon back and forth on the other side, so we're hitting the physical constraints of our manufacturing capability.