One of the top stories on hacker news RIGHT NOW is about how the life expectancy is plummeting because we’re all fat and addicted to something while being trapped in a shitty health care system.
Chinese get so goddamned butthurt and defensive it is like they are mentally ill battered wives defending their abuser.
Can you show some of these comments where Chinese people get butthurt because people shit-talk Chinese companies? Are those comments here on HN?
I've been on the Internet many years and see a lot of people getting butthurt when they read about China excelling at things, and generally the Chinese themselves are next to non-existant, at least here on the Western side of the net.
Whataboutism is prima facie, irrefutable, unquestionable evidence of butthurtism.
The phenomenon is so prevalent that the phrase 伤害中国人民的感情 causes newspaper editors and online commenters to roll their eyes because if you publish an article about how heavy rain has caused flooding in a province somewhere a dozen state-controlled media outlets and ten thousand weibo posters will drone on about 中国人民的感情.
"Whataboutism" is not the ace-in-the-sleeve you think it is. It's tucking the tail between the legs and stubbornly refuse to acknowledge defeat, because once the blatant hypocrisy has been pointed out there's nothing sensible to respond with.
But I see what level you're taking this to: anyone who disagrees with the agenda is a Chinese or Russian spy.
