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and of course China is lowly rated on the democracy scale



If your Chinese professors are telling you Stalin was worse than Hitler then the Chinese youth are going to have to get way less ironic about the "second cultural revolution" memes.
Thankfully they don't do nazi crimes denialism, they often just repeat liberal arguments about central planning being bad due to lack of incentives and whatnot and this being why the USSR collapsed and that China's "state capitalism" is why it survived (that last part is kind of true I guess? but also so wrong at the same time!). I am learning some interesting things though, I'm still having an overall positive experience, but the liberalism does get annoying sometimes.
To be fair, they’re not sending their best to teach the laowai courses.
That's true, and plus I'm in Shanghai so liberalism is to be expected
I will never forgive them for turning the site of the founding of the CPC into a luxury mall
But Shanghai’s a great city in so many ways regardless, enjoy!