Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’

• Teknikal@eviltoast.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t think it’s communism anymore but the Chinese gov are actually looking after their own citizens in my opinion. I kind wish Xi was in charge of the UK honestly.

  They tend to think of everything long term and all of those projects are paying off, also Healthcare free education etc they are investing more in their own population than anyone else. US is in my opinion as UK guy pretty much done they’ve picked a fight that they won’t win.

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  • Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Their own citizens…except for LGBTQ people or uyghurs of course.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Every time I read a headline about how there’s a genocide in Xinjiang, it’s in the same newspaper that insists Israel Has The Right To Defend Itself and Yemen needs to be bombed to powder.

      At some point, it reads like liberal agitprop. An excuse to scare liberals into hating a foreign country so we can justify… what? Tariffs? TikTok bans? Nuclear war?

      Same with LGBTQ rights. We’ve got a DOGE department doing a pogrom on “woke” government workers while I still get an earful about how mean China is to minority groups?

      What am I supposed to take away from this?

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      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That the world isn’t black and white, and both sides can be awful at the same time.

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      • qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Two wrongs don’t make a right. Or are you denying Uyghurs are being persecuted?

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      • Witziger_Waschbaer@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well if you want a first hand account: I went to Shanghai with some friends recently, one has family and friends there, so knows the city. We went to the only lesbian bar in all of this huge metropolis. Note that I’m a guy. But due to being closed down before, the place seemed to be rather glad to have some euro faces in there, as a show for the cop car parked right in front of it the whole night.

        My friend also told me, that the amount of beggars was really low this time, because they all got picked up and brought to somewhere else.

        So all in all I think it’s an efficiently run country, but you don’t get around pushing some people out if you want efficiency. Humans are all different, if you want to consider everyone’s opinion it takes a lot of time (which China did not have in the last few decades). So some opinions are forced out rather brutally.

        But, all in all: Go there, experience it yourself.

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    • AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also most people only see the living conditions of the top 1%. Going to beijing and being amazed by it is like going to hollywood or manhattan and then ignoring the rest of la or upstate ny. And then we havent even gotten to the really bad ones… And then europe also exists. We still exploit poorer countries(which now china also does and the us as well of course) but basically we have the best living conditions in the world and also some of the best places for queer people. Like literally my country that counts as a shithole in europe(hungary) is still somehow one of the best countries by a lot of metrics in the whole world, usually only behind other european countries.

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      America has a greater percentage of Americans locked up than China has Uyghurs locked up and we don’t have a Thorium reactor either.

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      • Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I dont give a fuck about the US either. Nice whataboutism tho.

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  • j0ester@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Idk… I have my ifs and buts about China. If you don’t believe in human rights, well love China! I’m not saying everyone in China is bad (but there are evil individuals like in US and NK). And watching Human Harvest, jeez…

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    • Teknikal@eviltoast.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Human rights they have they do execute billionaires who try to screw the rest of the population which in my opinions puts them ahead even more

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      • Noja@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        apnews.com/…/ap-top-news-international-news-weeke… skepchick.org/…/maker-naomi-wu-is-silenced-by-chi…

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    • Disinformation_Bot@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The “human rights” standard of western imperialist countries is laughable hypocrisy. The US alone makes China look like the paragon of justice.

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      • HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Tell it to the Uyghurs.

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  • Mistic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Anymore” as if it ever was. Even USSR never claimed to be a communist country

    P.S. They claimed to be a socialist, then “developed” socialist country that’s “on the path of building communism”.

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    • sapetoku@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Communism is a goal, not a government system.

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    • Teknikal@eviltoast.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t know what they are but I know they look after their citizens more than we do, and they’ve really started taking over the entire spec space in the last few years mainly due to that.

      I’m UK but if someone held a gun to me and demanded where would I live USA or China I’d honestly pick China.

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      • Mistic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’d advise you to read more on how Chinese government and spin dictatorships work. It’s not really a country you’d choose over US even considering all it’s massive (cough healthcare and consumer protections cough) flaws

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• MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s not communism, it’s state-capitalism

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• misteloct@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Authoritarianism is winning.

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