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China is winning in every imaginable way
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Human rights?
When fairly compared, yes absolutely.
What do you think of the human rights of the millions killed and deprived by the US and its allies on a near-constant basis?
Oh, that's right, that discourse doesn't even exist as the topic is framed exclusively in a racist and self-serving way. True Human Rights Violations only come from the nonwhite periphery region, everything else is just sparkling accidental collateral damage for Freedom and Democracy.
Do you think China is more human rights focused and/or less racist than anywhere else in the world?
Certainly compared to the settler imperial core responsible for virtually every war and the racist status quo of systemic deprivation. It is not a serious discussion to imagine otherwise.
I kind of already said that.
We are comparing the current state of countries, yes? Do you think Norway for example currently has an imperialist settler core?
What would you call China's ambitions regarding the nine dash line and Taiwan if not imperialist?
No because what I described is part of a systemic process and is ongoing, has precedent, and has its supporters for future depravity.
Norway is a subimperialist petrostate of the imperial core. It does the bidding of its masters. It is, primarily, irrelevant, but it does sometimes act as a hanger-on in militarism and it certainly loves to pump the price of oil, e.g. supporting American sanctions on Venezuela that CEPR estimated to kill tens of thousands yearly. But naturally, that skips Westerners' human rights discourse entirely, they pretend sanctions aren't civilian-targeted dispossession. In addition, Norway just uses loopholes to hide its role in weapons sales, including to Israel.
Getting off-track, aren't you? Or in your mind would you declare any imperialism you can find a human rights violation? If so, hoo boy is my thesis correct.
I'll entertain those two questions when they can be seated coherently, I.E. we have resolved the actual topic and can discuss what imperialism is, as those questions suggest you don't know.
So it is comparing the current state, yes? Taking into account how history shapes it sure, but the current state.
You'll need to do more to connect oil why pricing oil is racist. Because it competes with other countries like Venezuela?
I already answered, "No".
I didn't say that pricing oil is racist.
Pushing for sanctions from the superpowee is a funny thing to call competition.
Please do your best to engage in good faith by reading and addressing what I say. At least, if you're going to respond. This last response was mostly reading incomprehension, which normally, sure, no biggie, but the amount you didn't respond to in order to do that? No bueno.
The nine dash line is open to negotiations as recent ones with Vietnam have shown. "Taiwan", actually called the Republic of China, is the rump state of the losing side of the chinese civil war. It only exists because the US interfered. It considers itself China, the PRC considers it China. Only you ignorant people don't. It is a wholy internal matter of the chinese people.
There is no state called "Taiwan", get it already.
holy shit crack a history book
like literally learn the first fucking thing about the situation
95% approval rating of the government over 15 years (studied and reported by Harvard)
Multiple autonomous zones wherein a non-Han culture controls major aspects of society including religion, language, social norms, etc. Children are educated in their native tongues and official business is conducted in those languages. Compare this to language and religious erasure in the USA and Canada.
The protests in Hong Kong were violent... That is to say the protestors were throwing fire bombs at the police, but the police allowed the protests to rage for weeks and did not violently repress them. Compare this with the decades of police riots in the USA most recently the protests against racially-motivated extrajudicial killings by the police.
Greater home ownership rates in China than the USA or Canada. Lower homelessness rates in China than USA or Canada. Lower death rates from COVID in China.
The human rights to food, shelter, health, a government that responds to the needs of the people - all of these are better in China.
Child separation of immigrant families and use of solitary confinement on immigrants, including infants which causes permanent brain damage.
Apartheid and ghettoization domestically and support for apartheid and ghettoization globally.
That doesn't even get into the military. China lacks all of these, but they feature heavily in the USA:
The USA has an absolutely abysmal human rights record compared to China.
people always compare Chinas percent of people who speak their native tongue to genocidal states like amerikkka and canada but honestly it compares very favorably to european countries too where minorities sometimes massive ones like the occitanians in france have experience a slow cultural genocide and most people seem not to care.
The HK cops absolutely were violent, it was just unfathomably better controlled than American cops, because they didn't kill a single person despite the huge scale of the protests and reasonably long time period. Literally the only living being who I have heard about their actions killing was a cat that got caught in teargas (whose owner brought it to the protests like a moron). Meanwhile the HK protestors, in a deliberate and targeted manner, immolated a civilian for aiding the police (I think he opened a gate for them or something), along with abuses that were less serious, like beating up the odd pro-mainland HK civilian or less-targeted, like when they negligently bricked that old man and he died.
Edit: I hope that's not just an incomprehensible pile of anecdotes.
this. the west is not all chrome and shiny (heh), it jsut oursources its violence to its poorer lackeys.
Unlike wetreners, Chinese do have real human rights, like right to housing, education, food, and healthcare.
Have you seen Europe? And how about freedom of expression?
lol yeah I have https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/18/pro-palestine-journalist-asa-winstanleys-home-raided-by-british-counterterror-police/
So people like you can have the illusion of freedom. Speech that cannot be translated into tangible action is not freedom. The people in the west have the freedom to scream into the void, but not the freedom to change their conditions. Anybody who can't tell the difference between the two is so very lost.
Literally yes read Chinese papers. Comradely criticism is like Marxism 101
Xi Jinping February 2016.
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2016/02/191569/?amp https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/world/asia/china-media-policy-xi-jinping.html
Your two sources are a NED funded paper and the New York crimes
Okay now use your words and brain to explain what you just quoted and why it's a problem
Taking the quote completely at face value:
So it's now censorship of freedom of expression if the state is not actively sponsoring, advertising, and distributing criticism of itself? I should try writing to NPR about how we need a proletarian party controlling the government so I can say that they've "censored" me when they obviously don't invite me on to talk about it.
Yes I do, and the fact that Chinese system has shown itself to be flexible and adaptable is proof of that. A system can only evolve effectively when it can be criticized in a way that lead to action. That's how change happens. Western systems are the ones where effective free expression is forbidden, and that's why they've ossified and the ruling class no longer even pretends to care about public opinion.
Nah we are basically immersed in a housing crisis, so no right to that. And every time an actual leftist party succeeds, our media basically unite against it while pretending to accept them. You can call it a "lesser evil", but I would even doubt that, since China is probably talking about us the same way we talk about them.
you're having it so good. here in the periphery of the capitalism we are just putsched whenever a marginally leftist party gets elected, with active help from the department of state.
European journalists are getting raided and arrested for covering the genocide in Gaza.
Poverty rates in China
Under every income group.
Homeownership rates in China
Reached 90% in 2018
That's not money so it's inconceivable to foreign relations pundits.
What do you mean?
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