Is that post really anti us and pro china though? To me it looks like anti pro us, and anti anti china.

I had already formed conclusions after reading through one of the founder’s comment histories (which I’d encourage), so my reading of it may have been biased. Either way it’s clear that the motivation driving them is, or at least was, largely political in nature.

Also, how do you see the founders controlling the project more? Especially at the “much deeper level”?

They own the github repo, they control what code gets committed, they control whether the project lives or dies really. They have the power to lose interest or decide to abandon the project, at which point the best hope the community has is that others pick it up. It’s not normally something I worry too much about with open source projects but again, strong geopolitical associations makes it feel precarious to me – if they don’t like where things are going, maybe they’d feel motivated to actively shut it down and discourage any peaceful transition of (code) ownership. Obviously this is all conjecture.

I’m a New Zealander living in The Netherlands, whether you choose to believe that or not.

I’m not sure why you think I’d have trouble believing that!