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Being hopelessly idealistic and impractical is not a good thing. Half or more than a half of your people don’t favor that environmentalism, and having your rulers enforced them on you is also doubleplusungood. I don’t know what to say if that is what you meant by not “worsening the problem”. It’s laughable.
Much to my disappointment I see little will from Americans left or right to solve the problem. All they have shown so far is to pretend to solve the problem. And they spend more time debating about who should take the blame than acting together as a people to solve any problems. Incredibly unfortunate, I do like the American people.
A central theme I see in a lot of the pro-China comments in this thread is "well the U.S. sucks too" well yes. We don't dispute that, but just because the U.S. has DEI does not mean that disappearing people is anywhere near the same scale of oppression.
The same goes for dysfunction, the environment, and questionable reporting of economic health.
The fed is somewhat unreliable at times is not in the same universe as cooked Chinese economic numbers.
Of course, this place is mostly inhabited by Americans. Your sense of what is right or wrong is inevitably tied to your own experience (which I assume is American), and I see nothing wrong with making these kinds of comparative analyses. They are far more informative than talking about “values” as if they exist in a vacuum.
Your perception of China is a belief system, and it does not have to be rooted in anything real. There are no real interactions, no anecdotes, not even citations. Beliefs are difficult to dislodge with arguments. The good thing is that they also cannot shape reality however they wish.
It is not a belief system, I am expressing known facts.
If you'd like to provide a reputable source indicating that China is not an oppressive regime please do so. Same for my other concerns.
If your argument is that the Chinese are moral aliens then I suppose that's fine, but then also arguing that at the same time everything is a lie and propaganda isn't reasonable, you have to pick one.
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