SaddamHuseinovic wrote:One Party state, benvolent Dictator, controlled economy (state-capitalism), orwellian surveillence and censorship, prisons for minorities, desire to create a superhuman, exchagerated territorial claims, millitarisation
China changed from Maoism in pure Musolini Fascism
1. One-party State
Technically China is NOT a one-party state, just that other parties do not have real influence. In some sense:
a. The government of Singapore or even Japan resemble the system, but they respectively are freer and keep a better formality of democracy.
b. You can say China is even worse than North Korea since the latter regularly hold elections and "encourage" locals to participate. China doesn't even put this facade up.
2. Benevolent Dictator
All leaders up to Hu Jintao can be said as this, but I will not bestow this honour to Xi Jinping. It's correct that he faces more challenges than his predecessors, but his cruelty has expanded too much (necessarily or not) and now we realize that the System no longer works and has to be brought down sooner or later.
3. Controlled Economy (state-capitalism)
It depends on your point of view whether this is actually better or worse than Liberal Capitalism as practiced in most Western democracies -- heck, even for Sweden most foreigners probably only know Ikea, Volvo and Scania. IMHO different people have different abilities, and wealth accumulation onto the few is an established physical phenomenon -- just look up the sky and observe the galaxies yourself to see how matter accumulate. This will not change regardless of Liberalism, State capitalism or even Socialism. Ordinary people probably do not give a damn on it as long as they have as much freedom, rights and wealth as they
can control (okay, maybe a little bit more...).
4. Orwellian Surveillance and Censorship
To be fair, the Western democracies do this as well -- if you believe in Snowden that is. However, in the ways of
using it, I still trust the Western democracies much more than the Chinese. Think about the real difference in between.
5. Prisons for Minorities
This is partially exaggerated. I mean, they actually do that to whoever opposing them, it's just that some other races (e.g. Han) had been too poor or oppressed by other countries that they approved of this action. Personally I don't find the Chinese's action very different to the Jews today.
Mind you, not that I approve this policy: I will not be surprised if they do the same for Hongkongers, who are technically the same race as most other Chinese.
6. Desire to Create a Superhuman
Scientifically I don't know about this, and you need to provide a little bit of evidence. If you are talking about Xi Jinping (again), though, I must say that this is how the Chinese history had been for at least
two millennia, and this characteristic is hardly any news.
7. Exaggerated territorial claims
I think you are talking about the South China Sea islands. Believe it or not, the South China Sea claim should be seen as part of the partition of Japanese holdings just after WW2. It is just like how Japan had been allowed to administer the North Pacific Islands after WW1,
and then how the United States is allowed to administer them NOW, just in a
much smaller scale. Mind you,
none of the surrounding countries were even
independent when the claim was seen
on ROC maps (NOT PRC!) in 1947, so it's natural that ROC was allowed to be the custodian because they are seen as the most powerful friend of the US around. Had China not descended into the situation as we know, the claim would have been
totally legitimate.
On a side note, Taiwan / ROC might have "abandoned" many of the territorial claims (most notable
Mongolia, which China
did possess for several hundred years), but the primary reason behind is that they are now
weak, not that they
don't want to.
8. Militarisation
To be honest, I have no objection to this, because almost every other geographically non-isolated country will do this in a way or another. Even Switzerland will do that (in fact, they will not be so much a paradise if they don't!)
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In general, Many of these more closely resemble Nazism than Fascism. Mussolini might be the earlier one to do some of these but he's neither the most definitive nor the most successful.
And of course, China turned out much, much worse. Even Nazism is just about oppressing other races. In China, everybody, Han or not, have equal chance to be oppressed.
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P.S.
SaddamHuseinovic wrote:China is harvesting Organs of minorities (muslim and falun gong)
Most Falun Gong practitioners are Han Chinese, the majority race.
Moreover, I
never hear them accusing Xi Jinping (or Hu Jintao in that matter) as openly as Jiang Zemin (who's some 15~20 years out of power and in his 90's now). I have suspicion that Falun Gong, while persecuted as usual, is a secret associate of the later leaders. And even not, their ideology does not entitle such a great organization power (their rallies
easily exceed pro-democracy protests had the Extradition Law Incident not happened), and I don't think it is a good thing if they win.