(Preferably with sources)
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!
From what I’ve seen on Xiaohongshu, there’s a cultural attitude of “live and let live” when it comes to people’s romantic relationships. So gay couples exist, can live together, mostly accepted except for the usual reactionaries.
However, from what I’ve seen posted there, the state doesn’t want people/groups to try to convince people to be gay. Which on the surface seems silly, people are either gay or they’re not. Regardless, it means LGBT organizations need to be very particular in the language they use in order to avoid scrutiny.
Do same sex couples have the same protections that heterosexual couples have? Letting people love whomever they want is all well and good, but I'd also want my marriage to be recognized and upheld by the state, for example inheriting the things me and my partner had rather than them going to their parents or a sibling.
Unfortunately, no China doesn’t have gay marriage yet. I don’t know how inheritance laws work there so I won’t comment on that aspect.
I wouldn't be surprised if there is a struggle with the idea that being gay is some sort of "western luxury" or something to divide the people. Given the amount of communist from various places I've had to deal with this wild thought process. However that is 100% speculation on my part.
If it's not a capitalist luxury then why did so many men find out they're gay after looking at Margaret Thatcher?
I've seen a bit of that on WeChat fwiw
There go my plans to build a gay conversion camp (but, like, one that turns people gay)
Now there's a sequel idea for the beach that makes you old: the camp that makes you gay.