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• simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To be fair, the CCP has already done a lot of armed crackdowns and disappearing. They’re in the phase where people are too scared to resist.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also quite true. They no longer need to use the threat of violence because of the implication

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    • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The worrying part is that they kinda seem to be implementing good policies for (at least some of) their people.

      There’s a lot of disturbing stuff, and probably a whole lot more that we don’t even know about, but social security, education, healthcare - my impression is that they’re going the right way, while the US looks eager to go back to the Dark ages.

      Just with STEM degrees, they’re producing almost 5x more graduates than the US, and they’ve surpassed the number of doctorates a long time ago too.

      The current world balance won’t hold one more generation.

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  • Ferrous@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’re in the phase where people are too scared to resist

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    • dude@lemmings.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Over 90% of Chinese agree that “democracy is important”? Was this survey conducted in Taiwan and signed as “China” complying with “one China policy”?

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      • Ferrous@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Again, asking for any type of source or statistic over anecdotes. Your “observations” go against reputable polling and statistics of people in China.

        Was this survey conducted in Taiwan and signed as “China” complying with “one China policy”?

        No… in fact this was a Harvard study that started off with “Given how China is an authoritarian nightmare, how widespread is support for the government?”

        …harvard.edu/…/final_policy_brief_7.6.2020.pdf

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    • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If a country is not a divisive hellscape of anger, it must be because they are too afraid to answer surveys honestly. If fear motivated answers then “democracy is impotant” might score low if “there wasn’t a genuine feeling that people are heard in China”.

      Look at the massive gap in west between democracy is important and the 40% of people too distracted to understand that their governments don’t serve them. Think hard of what a nightmarish dystopia that is for a second, and then realize that part of that divisiveness is politicians telling you (and you repeating their propaganda as absolute) we need a path to war against China that will make it all better.

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• yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Trump is definitely headed in China’s direction, but MSNBC is still allowed to exist.

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