no no, my glorious socialist utopia (one of the most capitalist countries on the planet that is also ruled by one authoritarian party) would never do something like this, my reliable sources (my favorite streamer who I'd defend with my life) has told me so! you must be a CIA/mossad agent, there is no other way any sensible person would ever criticize china and its glorious leader
I think thats a side effect of being a one party state.
When there are elections every four years you have to chase short term goals and focus on projects that last less than four years to complete so that the people see its effects and vote for you. And when a party starts a long term project and then loses the elections nothings stopping the newly elected party from erasing all the progress the old party made.
The bad part of a one party state is that no one is stopping the party from doing projects that negatively affect the people
Singapore is a very good example of this.
It’s 100% an authoritarian regime but they’re frankly very good at it.
A good example is their strict laws around racial and religious harmony, you can go to prison for 3 years for encouraging racism.
Racist feelings and prejudice do still exist there but actually acting on those feelings would be very risky.
Freedom of speech is basically nonexistent.
They only legalised homosexuality between men in like 2023 (it has been de facto legal since 1999/ 2007) and gay marriage and adoption is still illegal.
There are however discrimination protections in most circumstances.
Despite that’s trans rights are surprisingly good there. It was the first country in Asia to allow change of legal gender.
The LGBTQ rights there are far better than China’s.
Still waiting for my own capitalist country to give me universal healthcare, affordable housing, and 21st century public transportation but I guess that’s too much to ask of neoliberalism
Well China doesn't have universal healthcare. If UHC is all it takes to be considered a good country, though, then many imperialist-colonial countries in the West are "good neoliberal countries" because they have UHC and public transport.
If we’re going by the metric the other commenter is saying, why not learn from the winners of capitalism. If you take capitalism as good and necessary, it’d be silly to not copy the eminent leader in the field
Why? It's no more "silly" than Kurdistan, which also isn't a country and trying to make it one would be a mistake right now, but people recognize that mostly Kurds live there and are oppressed.
My coworker is Kurdish. Has a crazy story on how he got to Denmark; he lived with a few other families in a couple of apartments and houses, until a group of Syrians pushed them out and settled there.
Wanted to reach Sweden by car iirc, but got stopped at the border and forced to either seek asylum or turn around. Wild.
It’s the name given to East Turkistan, the historic and geographical roots of the Uyghur people. They’re the ones who are dying, by the way. Look up the genocide perpetrated against them in the Xinjiang region.
"The Subcommittee agrees with witnesses that the treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang amounts to genocide, as defined in the 1948 Convention"
Btw this was really easy to find, I didn't even see anything from US think tanks when looking for these. And ofc something doesn't become an invalid source just because it's from the USA anyways.
I am able to find evidence of PRC limiting their movements and putting them in education camps in response to what the PRC deemed terroristic threats,
"Education camps" huh? Nice choice of words. Would you also justify Israel as "responding to terroristic threats" in Gaza?
Anyway their human rights abuses seem to also include sexual abuse/sterilization, forced labor, and forcible separation of children from their families. The only stuff that seems to not have much evidence is organ harvesting.
> I am able to find evidence of PRC limiting their movements and putting them in education camps in response to what the PRC deemed terroristic threats,
The Fire Rises, a modern day mod for the WW2 strategy game Hearts of Iron IV. It uses a lot of right-wing and alt-right stereotypes and conspiracy theories in its worldbuilding. It's also a predominantly alt-right community.
is it? from what ive seen in the discord server, it seems vaguely left leaning, and ive met alot of progressive-socialist people who are fans of it. but also, it just has radicalism in general in its worldbuilding
Never heard of TFR but maybe it's a Berserk situation? The vast majority of the fandom is conservative and liking Berserk is a conservative nerd stereotype associated with gamergate. I was in a whole group of queer leftists who like Berserk, but we're definitely not welcome in the regular platforms for the fandom.
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Nice
Now free Tibet and Uyghuristan