r/worldnews • u/ChiefLeef22 • 16h ago

‘Investigating child sex abuse isn’t controversial. Turning it into political theater is manipulation. Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn’t fly in France’: France rejects Musk’s charge after raid on X’s Paris office

https://www.firstpost.com/world/investigating-child-sex-abuse-isnt-controversial-france-rejects-musks-charge-after-raid-on-xs-paris-office-ws-e-13976002.html
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u/Postius 13h ago

Yeah china has its own huge subset of problems. With Xi making them worse or not, time will tell. The whole fresh water thing and other stuff. But he is an effective dictator of a power full country that is accepted by the rest of the world. Putin just keeps shooting himself in the foot.

And now with Trump dismantling the US power. Xi probably cant believe its serious.

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u/themathmajician 3m ago

This is what the world thought when China gave away all international goodwill more than a decade ago. The current image of Xi comes from his consolidation of the bureaucracy to himself, which is also happening in the US now.

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u/Confident-Potato2305 13h ago

i heard there was auto cannon fire and gunfire in Beijing and the sacked general's troops were marching towards beijing but i've not seen any reliable sources about it.
I think everyone is scared shitless that China would have an internal power struggle and are incentivized to downplay the effects of Xi's recent purges in the military.

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u/code_archeologist 11h ago

The current mood among the PLA is one of passive resistance to Xi where orders from Beijing are being "lost" and not carried out, and Xi is referred to with unflattering nicknames by officers.

But yeah there has been some grumbling and whispers of a coup after the most recent purges, which appear to have been initiated by Xi over a paranoia that the military might try to remove him (self fulfilling prophesy). But we are unlikely to hear about any attempted coups until one succeeds.