"The First Opium War was fought from 1839 to 1842 between China and Britain. It was triggered by the Chinese government's campaign to enforce its prohibition of opium, which included destroying opium stocks owned by British merchants and the British East India Company. The British government responded by sending a naval expedition to force the Chinese government to pay reparations and allow the opium trade.[1] The Second Opium War was waged by Britain and France against China from 1856 to 1860, and consequently resulted in China being forced to legalise opium."

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Excuse me, but I have a hard time seeing how is these two events are related?

[–] NorthCountryHermit@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Unless they're implying that Chinese software will fail and bow down to "western software", I'm not seeing a link either.

[–] caveman@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hi, UK forced China to get their country destroyed, and no an UK-derived country is complaining that China is destroy them.

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

So in your analogy then Britain is the now China, and now U.S. is the then China? And TikTok is the opium released by China? Hence TikTok should be banned, if U.S. have the power to do so?

[–] caveman@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Apart from "should be banned", you got my analogy right.

I mean if they ban it they are being hypocrites

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

fair, thanks for explaining.