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Chinese Military Video Game Targets Americans
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We’ve covered a topic like this before where the Medal of Honor video game let you play Taliban forces shooting Americans. Now there’s a new entry into the fray that elevates the question politically. Just recently the Chinese military has released a game called Glorious Revolution much like America’s Army for their soldiers to train in virtual tactics. The target of choice – America.
In the previous OmniNerd discussion, LordDilly commented that it was it’s just a way to differentiate one team from the other. While that makes pretty good sense where a commercial game is concerned it makes you wonder whether a state sponsored training application chose a target of convenience or is intentionally making a political statement.
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Well...lots of games in the US.... by EyeOfSage
There’s tons to video games out there in our country with the Chinese as the opponent and most of the time, the villain as well. Fallout series starts with a story about Chinese aggression and invasion of Alaska leading to nuclear holocaust. Home-front is another game about the invasion of North Koreans in the world. YET the original script had China as the villain. But they thought it would shrank the market if they pissed off Chinese people and no one gives a damn about what North Korean thinks anyway. Look at Command and Conquer Generals. The typical stereotype of the Chinese stereotype: “trigger happy, mass murdering, manics who won’t hesitate to blow up anything”.
In fact, our whole media paints a pretty negative view on Chinese government. Sure they have domestic problems but they don’t deserve the “tyrant of the century” we all mock them up to be. Or maybe this is just our own propaganda at work. What ways to control people in a “democratic” country other than fill people’s head with patriotism and propaganda but mask it with “always trust us, we are the good guys”. Because obviously when our media spreads propaganda, it’s “spreading truth” or “expressing our freedom of speech” or “we just have a good sense of humor”. And when they do it: “Bring out everything you got, they are obviously coming for us!!”
So would it be any wonder the Chinese state develops games with the target choice as America? Can we judge them for “making a political statement” when even our own public have been spreading this negative view of the Chinese? [Especially since even our own public seems to deem China as an opponent that needs to be dealt with sooner or later?] What would the our Government think if the Chinese had this negative attitude towards us? I bet we would soon be developing military training games with the Chinese as target. [Or maybe we already did considering not that long ago, we were on the verge of another war in the Asia continent].
As far as I am concerned, I don’t feel the need to do anything because we already have our influences everywhere. With 200 different navy military bases all over the world and the biggest military budget of any country with the most advanced weaponry and military training…in fact, we could probably cut some of those spending and improve our education system. Or we can be all paranoid like Glenn Beck.
Those Dastardly Krasnovians by VnutZ
Other than the joes themselves calling the pop-up targets Ivans and Hajjis, in many cases the training rarely if ever depicts a particular nation state as the aggressor. We’re always planning strategy against the Krasnovians and other intentionally ambiguous adversaries. The only indication of who that ambiguous target may be typically comes from whether the scenario involves woodland, desert or water.