(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!
Yeah, no disagreements here, my thoughts on carriers are more "They might be obsolete, they might still have some kind of niche, or they might still be the backbone of any navy." I just don't have enough info to know for sure, most US bombing operations happen through mid-air refueling these days already, but like you said, they only have the power to do that thanks to their numerous military bases around the world. Personally I'm not really a fan of using "trump card" to describe anything relating to wars, a bit too close to "wunderwaffen" for my tastes, it's logistics and production that win wars, not having some superweapon (not that I mean to imply that's what you were saying, you literally listed off multiple aspects of China's industrial strength in your examples there.)
My biggest worry with the whole thing is the US just recognising that they can't win a war with China and just nuking them, and relying on China's patience and hesitation so that they won't be attacked in retaliation.