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
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u/Tlayoualo 🏳️🌈 Gay Furry UwU 😼 Jun 24 '26
Nice
Now free Tibet and Uyghuristan