Originally Posted by Boblawblah
... no one said anything negative towards the Chinese people, they just expressed concerns towards Tencent being an arm of the Chinese government.

China isn't a democracy, so when powerful Chinese companies that have to operate in China start buying large chunks of non-Chinese companies, people are going to be a bit anxious. that's not sinophobia. This reminds me of the current "russiaphobia" that is going around.

Originally Posted by mrfuji3
Let's not bring communism or race into this. The issue is that Tencent is a big corporation that is also arm of an *Authoritarian (possibly approaching totalitarian?)* government. Either of those issues would be bad enough alone (owned by big corporation = not indie & pure-profit motives will inevitably stifle creativity and fun; owned by an authoritarian government = possible censorship or forced content), and both together is obviously worse.
^Agreed.