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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 16:36:25 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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   @rakyat @abhijith lol yes, I noticed his past videos and saw the same. It's hard to get good "balanced" videos but hey, maybe the trick is to just to watch them all lol.

   Just a lot more work for viewers of course. Only nuts like us would do it -_-

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     Just another rakyat 🇲🇾 (rakyat@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 16:36:26 JST Just another rakyat 🇲🇾

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     @liztai
     Haha Johnny Harris is only the *relatively* balanced of the bunch but he’s been known to talk cock about stuff he doesn’t know about. When I watched one of his videos about China, I could spot so many issues as a casual observer (like mistaking the Yangtze River for the Yellow River, and for crediting the CCP too much for China’s expansionist attitude while ignoring that the Kuomintang government before that claimed even more territory including the current Mongolia lol.)
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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 16:36:27 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @abhijith @rakyat So when he talks about China as a rising global war order, what images does he use? Tanks and soldiers. Bruh.
     Comments: You're pro-China!

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 16:36:28 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @abhijith @rakyat Yeah. I have to make a special effort to hunt for more balanced content or at least, a narrative that is different than the current Western-dominated one. When you think of it - most of the world media outlets are Western companies, so I guess there's no wonder it's harder to find different POVs.

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     abhijith (abhijith@social.cowcornerfeeds.co.in)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 16:36:29 JST abhijith

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     @rakyat @liztai This is something what we read everyday in good news platforms in India(which are unfortunately few) but will come as a shocker to many in the west.
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     Just another rakyat 🇲🇾 (rakyat@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 16:36:30 JST Just another rakyat 🇲🇾

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     @liztai @abhijith Oops.. forgot to include link: https://youtu.be/72m0cK423-Q

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     Just another rakyat 🇲🇾 (rakyat@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 16:36:32 JST Just another rakyat 🇲🇾

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     @liztai @abhijith I just watched this yesterday, TLDR: not taking a side between the US & China/Russia is helping global south countries negotiate the best outcomes for ourselves.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 16:36:33 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @abhijith Oh lord. Lol. The problem with this whole thing is that they treat us like we can't think for ourselves and that we are easily manipulated. It's this condescension that I can't stand. This book explains the tensions re Us Ukraine and Russia, and I understand it better now and why the global South wants to stay the eff away.

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     abhijith (abhijith@social.cowcornerfeeds.co.in)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 16:36:34 JST abhijith

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     @liztai What a timing. I was just triggered by a news article that says global south does not support Ukraine because of Russian disinfo.
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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 16:36:35 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

     For Asians, especially #TootSEA folks, Kishore's talking points will be familiar. But Western readers will find it confronting as it pops many ideological bubbles & it'll hit at the ego.
     It is refreshing to read geo #politics from a SEA perspective. I'm used to Western narratives, so to see my thoughts represented here is quite validating. This was written in the Trump era, so it's painful to see his warnings come to pass especially with China, Ukraine & Russia😞

     #Books #Book #BookReview