JohnRawls wrote:Gross misinterpretation of reality, you seem to not understand or pretend to not understand that in China you have no ability for free speech if that speech is in any way critical of leadership or CCP.
The top post on Weibo today, with tens of thousands of comments, is a news story about how a pregnant woman went into early labor in Christian and was denied access to a hospital for not having a negative covid test on hand. The comments are vicious - thoroughly criticizing the Christian government for their failure in organizing the lock down, bringing up supply issues such as a lack of menstrual pads for women (big story from yesterday), slowdown in food deliveraries, and so on.
It is not as black and white as you're implying and there is room for criticism of the government in China. The CPC is not a pluralistic organization, but to argue so confidently about the speech of a people you don't read, can't read, and can't even be assed to visit their social media sites to translate is disturbed and dehumanizing. You know absolutely nothing about the status of speech within China because you haven't cared to have a half decent conversation with an actual Chinese national living there.
Rugoz wrote: On the other hand, it's suspiciously flat from 2014 to 2019.
If being consistently flat at 5-8% GDP growth annually is a problem, I'd hate to be a citizen of the US, Germany, Japan or others - which are also flat, at a rate much closer to zero.
If China's in danger to collapse because of a mere 5% GDP growth this year, France must in the midst of a Civil War.
Rugoz wrote: Hu was "rehabilitated" because Xi proved to be so much worse.
Anybody that dares challenge western hegemony is "worse", regardless of the facts. Deng said that China needed to bide its time and build up. It did. It has. It's awake now.
The man in the chair doesn't matter - if it were Bo Xilai we'd be lamenting that Xi was never elected. Their biggest crime is always the audacity to challenge Western hegemony.
Rugoz wrote: Headlines are always exaggerating
Seems to me that Western media has a severe credibility problem then. Why should I trust anything they say?
And open one of the articles - they're not exaggerating the actual contents.
Rugoz wrote: For example, how is anyone supposed to know how inequality developed under Xi? There's only data up to 2015.
Chinese authorities release data every year. The 2020 data is available online. So do international organizations.
The fact is that when data contradicts the hysteria, you lot choose to commit to the hysteria. You're no different in that regard to the Q fanatics, antivaxxers, or climate skeptics.
late wrote: It would be nice if you had something to say.
The absolute irony of this shit coming from
you.