By tying profits to political acquiescence, the Chinese Communist Party is forcing companies and governments around the world …
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1. China’s fast speed of growth and successful development is in part because of its political solidarity given its unique conditions. It's really funny how Western nations led by the US continuously impose “democracy” on the rest of the world without caring about their socioeconomic development. In sociopolitical theory, authoritarianism is one method of development given the right conditions and the government in place. China has a population of 1.4 billion, with 56 ethic minorities, and today, a percentage of that population is still uneducated. China has successfully pulled millions of people out of poverty and transformed third-tier cities into safe, civilized states. Without the tools to make conscious choices in ideology and belief, free, ungoverned ideology, imposed from the West without the right context turns into Chaos, seen in Xinjiang 15 years ago which led facebook and western media being banned.
2. And its really funny how U.S.’s version of freedom of speech and free trade/free market is depicted by its leftist “cancel culture” today and technological sanctions on China; let alone demonstrated by the abundance of gun violence, homelessness, and Fentanyl crisis happening on its streets. Politics and “freedom of speech” is only relevant to an individual's everyday life when you live in a physically safe society. Safety in your livelihood. To live in the US, you pay a price of "democracy" in your personal safety in danger, censoring your beliefs by the google/youtube algorithms to what is acceptable in the West, and tax money funding wars in the name of "democracy".
3. the U.S. is STILL doing terrible things in this world. The US is the sole country responsible for all of the most recent wars in the last two decades. The Chinese government system in no way is no way near perfect, but it just screams hypocrisy when the Western world has been meddling with China’s domestic affairs for decades in the name of democracy, depicting China in a skewed view, in reality simply cannot stand the idea of another world power rising with different political views.
Mainland China has no history of democratic government. That, it seems to me, make it incredibly difficult for Chinese people to appreciate how their individual roles in participatory democracy can be lived.
1. China’s fast speed of growth and successful development is in part because of its political solidarity given its unique conditions. It's really funny how Western nations led by the US continuously impose “democracy” on the rest of the world without caring about their socioeconomic development. In sociopolitical theory, authoritarianism is one method of development given the right conditions and the government in place. China has a population of 1.4 billion, with 56 ethic minorities, and today, a percentage of that population is still uneducated. China has successfully pulled millions of people out of poverty and transformed third-tier cities into safe, civilized states. Without the tools to make conscious choices in ideology and belief, free, ungoverned ideology, imposed from the West without the right context turns into Chaos, seen in Xinjiang 15 years ago which led facebook and western media being banned.
2. And its really funny how U.S.’s version of freedom of speech and free trade/free market is depicted by its leftist “cancel culture” today and technological sanctions on China; let alone demonstrated by the abundance of gun violence, homelessness, and Fentanyl crisis happening on its streets. Politics and “freedom of speech” is only relevant to an individual's everyday life when you live in a physically safe society. Safety in your livelihood. To live in the US, you pay a price of "democracy" in your personal safety in danger, censoring your beliefs by the google/youtube algorithms to what is acceptable in the West, and tax money funding wars in the name of "democracy".
3. the U.S. is STILL doing terrible things in this world. The US is the sole country responsible for all of the most recent wars in the last two decades. The Chinese government system in no way is no way near perfect, but it just screams hypocrisy when the Western world has been meddling with China’s domestic affairs for decades in the name of democracy, depicting China in a skewed view, in reality simply cannot stand the idea of another world power rising with different political views.
Thank you NED. Thank you Bethany Allen.
Mainland China has no history of democratic government. That, it seems to me, make it incredibly difficult for Chinese people to appreciate how their individual roles in participatory democracy can be lived.