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China using families as 'hostages' to quash dissent abroad (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a terrible way of persuading people. Better to not respond at all than to say something like this.

[–] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml -2 points 1 year ago

That guy has zero interest in being persuaded, he was just trolling and trying to waste my time. I'd already replied in detail and he pretended not to understand.