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I've overcorrected from "China bad" to "China is infallible." I know that's incorrect, but it's hard to decipher US propaganda from actual issues.

In discussions in the past, providing a positive counterpoint is plenty, but since more folks are already realizing the narrative about China is incorrect I would like to have more nuanced discussions where I can present both praise and criticism. I think it's also important that we don't end up in a USSR situation where Communism is synonymous with the actions of a single country.

  • I know they're trading with the genocidal zionist entity. Even if their policy is to be apolitical, that's very bad.
  • I'm unsure of what the internal restrictions look like in general
  • I saw that the "social credit score" was a small experiment in one province that got way overblown
  • Great firewall...? I know it's a thing, iiuc you can use a VPN to get around it, but only ones provided by the state (which could easily backdoor them)?
  • Limitations on speech? Do people get disappeared?
  • Are they monitoring everyone? "You can't monitor 1.5 billion people" idk computers are pretty fast. Also you can def use big data to find the people you do need to monitor more closely
  • Dengism? Reintroducing capitalism looks like a retreat at face value and has the obvious problems of capitalism, but I saw someone on here talking about it being a genius way of deindustrializing capitalist nations while building China's own capacity

Are there others? I'm happy if you also include justification for their policies, but I do want to know where you genuinely think they're making mistakes.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Given he could only speak Chinese and only used Chinese social networking services before he moved to Norway… Well, it's not "impossible" that he first got his small business tyrant dreams from ACG friends in "капстраны," given there are plenty of Chinese speakers in bourgeois states (not least Taiwan) and these are not blocked from using Chinese social media. But it's still a pretty lacking explanation IMO, given that mere exposure to an idea will not automagically make you believe it, if you've already been inoculated against the idea through theory, practical experience, or ideally both. The fact of the matter is that the young man in question went to business school and got his business degree IN CHINA, which means that, at the very least, regardless of where he got his original capitalist spark from, his education and lived experience did not do enough to inoculate him against it, and state-sanctioned institutions of higher learning were still standing at the ready to take him in and push him further down that path.

[–] opiumfree@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

so youre telling me that shit is accessible to the chinese public and with translations too? libs were wayy too flattering with the censorship accusations

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'm surprised you didn't know — ACG culture is huge in China. In fact, back when I knew the man in question and first started using Bilibili^[A social media platform with 300M+ users, often called "China's equivalent to YouTube".] for his sake, the default profile picture for guest users on the official mobile app was actually a silhouette of Akaza Akari from YuruYuri, in reference to a running gag from that anime. I reinstalled the Bilibili app just now to check if that was still the picture, apparently in the years since it's just been replaced with the words "LOG IN", probably for copyright reasons.

Edit: I'm struggling to find actual footage of the old UI of Bilibili for Android, but I at least found this Duitang post from 2020 referring to the following picture as "{B站|B-site^[Nickname of Bilibili.]}{未|not}{登录|logged-in}{默认|default}{头像|avatar}({阿卡林|Akarin^[Nickname of Akaza Akari.]})", and this Bilibili video from 2021 about "{b站|B-site}{初始|initial}{头像|avatar}{的|'s}{出处|origin}", so I know I'm not hallucinating.

Silhouette of Akaza Akari waving with the text "Akkariiin" written in Japanese Katakana letters.