(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!
Yes but that does not explain why they chose China instead of insert underdeveloped country name here. They chose China because they were the best option.
And the best option often meant putting the bodies of Chinese workers on the line, by relaxing or ignoring worker protections that existed before the opening to commerce.
yup, they were ruthlessly efficient. Which is why i find it insulting to just say it was free. That generation was worked to the bone to build modern china.
Yes, and i think it's a valid thing to criticize China for. Living and working conditions for the working class were put below the attractiveness to capital.
Whether it was worth it or not is beside the point. A whole generation's lives were made miserable on purpose, and that's something that the modern Chinese state will have to come to terms with.