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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

300 million a year!

(a) Countering Chinese influence fund. —There is authorized to be appropriated $300,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025 for the Countering Chinese Influence Fund to counter the malign influence of the Chinese Communist Party globally. Amounts appropriated pursuant to this authorization are authorized to remain available until expended and shall supplement, not supplant, amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated to counter such influence.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I cropped the risk opinion heat maps so you don't have to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Russia fear rising in Brasil? Why?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

I think one interesting thing shown by this is that, across the board, China has significantly reduced worries about all measured topics.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

It would have been nice if they had kept the axii in the same order between the charts

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Each day that goes by where China does literally nothing threatening the West loses face. Can't have a boogeyman that does nothing while you go around the world genociding minorities on live stream.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)