They usually accomplish the goals they set out to do and have greatly improved the well-being of their people. Egregious corruption has been dealt with - that's old news. And there's no genocide in China. To say that is actually soft genocide denial as it trivializes the word.

There is no such thing as a society, only individuals and families. Very true Maggie!

No, countries are qualitatively different from simply "lots of people"

People believe what they want. White people in Turtle Island call themselves Americans, and white people in Africa call themselves Afrikaners. But we are objectively still European :)

It's not a Chinese island? So landback to the indigenous Taiwanese, right?

Why do you want to burn religious texts so much?

What? Are you talking about oil? We need to be doing less extraction of oil, not more.

This is not a place for discussion. This is a place to post articles about why Ukraine will win and why Xi Jinping is evil.

Ad hominem

It's a good thing that China regularly forgives debt, and that nearly all debt issues in the third world arise from Western finance instead.

Ah very nice, racist stereotypes.

We all underestimated Lukashenko's power.

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I'll say what we're all thinking - could transition have saved her?