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China is eating the world
(apropos.substack.com)
This is a comm for news, information, and discussion on anything China and Chinese related.
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Imperialism will result in a ban.
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This is what happens when you can see the good things, but you don't actually ask anyone about it. So they can see the better cars, technology, and so on, but don't ask anyone. Like imagine if the author has bothered to ask anyone while he's being a tourist "hey how does your government work, at various levels? It's all just warlords and dictatorships right?" And they'd chuckle and say we vote on things and have elected officials. Like western condescension knows no bounds especially about things they can't even be bothered to research a little bit.
we need a mashup of "i'm just a bill" and the animaniacs countries song.
And the fact of the matter is that people in China who don't like the President do have the ability to talk about how much they don't like him. They just don't have the freedom to do so and collude with foreign governments, or plot against the government, which is pretty much exactly the same as here. I'd say the only real freedoms that the Chinese don't have revolve around obscenity laws and how they are enforced, but everything has become increasingly more Victorian (with the exception of algorithmic content) regardless of Chinese market influence, because sex isn't what sells, the implication of potential intimacy is what sells.