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China is an authoritarian dictatorship that tramples human rights and treats its citizens like resources and speed-bumps and treats "free speech" as the joke it actually is.
All that said, they are pulling ahead on the world stage by miles. We don't see it in the US because again... freedom of speech isn't real, media is filtered, but if you travel you see whole other angles on the entire planet and just how much we don't get shown.
For example, you rarely see news about it, but China has launched 3 space stations in the time it took us to make just the documentaries about the ISS and how huuuuge of an accomplishment it was for the world. They are going to be launching probes and setting up smart, realistic goals for exploring the solar system. That's just not the kind high-tech, ambitious, modern project that we associate with our stereotypical imagery of China that we get fed here, but if you actually walk around in any of their new cities you will feel a distinct, sinking sensation that we've already lost.
Three what now? Do you mean three modules for one station? Or three consecutive stations, one testing technology for the next? E.g. a short time station, e.g. a crew vehicle? I am only aware of one station, Tiangong. Do I have to do another web search? :(
There's just the one.
It can only house three people.
Yeah, that is what I thought. Still, I was impressed when they launched it as announced.
He may have meant one space station and some extra moon missions or something? They have been popping off a fair bit.
Honestly, I don't care what country dominates and wins the space race, i will just be impressed that we don't kill each other trying.
I would prefer for it to be an international cooperation - but we're just fucking this up big time :/
I feel like that astronaut 'always-has-been' meme would drop pretty hard right now
The current monster they have completed in 2022, Tiangong, was the third in a series of stations, the previous Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2 stations were mostly meant to test technique and technology but were remarkable achievements in their own right. They currently have the largest and most active space program in the world. I didn't even touch on their lunar program, their heavy satellite capability and their list of recent and upcoming solar-system probes.
Is bombing other countries, killing civilians and installing puppet leaders not a violation of human rights?
Two things can be true at once
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones at others.
Kay, I'm not chinese or american, so, both the us and china do horrendous things. It's not a shittiness competition
As an American I can say that the US and China are both bad....
It's like saying a slap on the wrist vs shooting someone with a gun are equally bad.
I think you're missing a lot of US History in your knowledge base. The US have committed atrocities for centuries. Are you forgetting the genocide of native americans? Slavery? All the meddling in Latin America and southeast Asia? This is just some of the bigger examples.
Are you responding to the wrong reply? Bojack is saying bringing up China's human rights violations in comparison to America bombing people and overthrowing governments all over the world is a false equivalency, and Lemmy is downvoting them because the are correct.
False equivalency and a fascist talking point
No, and no.
So what if they do a little authoritarianism? They are attempting to make goddamn fusions reactors, for fucks sake
It's important to point out balancing factors when discussing the accomplishments of any entity or state.
China is doing amazing things and will likely dominate the coming century, but that doesn't mean we should look at them like heroes or champions, and we need to hold our leaders accountable for wrongs.
It's possible they will get better as they take on more of a global role in the absence of the US hegemony that will likely start to crumble over the next several decades. I hope they give their people more rights and become leaders of world stability, but part of why they're escaping the destabilizing forces that are crushing democratic countries is precisely because they have such an oppressive stranglehold on their own culture. It's a complex situation.
Americans still associate China with shit quality merchandise while glossing over that that merchandise is made shit quality because American Importers selected that level of quality and completely ignoring that they make I Phones and other High quality tech.
This is absolutely right and a good point that I think a lot of people really don't get. China isn't filled with the cheap shit we get from China, they have a thriving middle-class, they have luxury goods the likes of which westerners haven't dreamed of. They have quality standards for goods and services probably higher than most places.
It's just that since we get their cheap dollar-store merch and we read stories about traditional Chinese medicine, we get the picture here that they're still largely a backwards, "3rd-world" nation of rice farmers and peasants. It would be like judging the entire US on a sampling of people from the mountains of Appalachia.
Related, but I also find it hilarious when people reference China as "communist" in any capacity.