• retrospectology@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Because China is not a normal country and all of its industry is controlled by the state. It desperately wants the world to forget that its the kind of country that runs over its citizens with tanks, forced labor and has hundreds of concentration camps, but it would be kind of silly to go along with that when it has not changed from that course.

    Their long-term plan is to slow boil global opinion through a mass social engineering projects and propaganda into accepting that it’s ok and normal for a government to operate in the way that the CCP does.

    As long as the CCP is in power anything it does should should be observed about with a healthy dose of suspicion.

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        8 months ago

        Israel is quite bad, yes, and the genocide is horrible, but I’d argue China is illustrative of what comes after democracy fails in a place and it has passed through the stage that Israel is currently in.

        China is a totalitarian state where information is so tightly controlled and the people so thoroughly decieved (or enslaved) that industrialized genocide is carried out at a scale unseen since the Nazis without the general population knowing or even caring.

        That kind of “civilized” totalitarianism in which dissent is quite literally not possible is the terminus of any form of facism. When Orwell talked about a boot stamping on a human face forever, that’s what China is.

        So no, as bad as Israel is and as much as they need to be confronted and are untrustworthy, China is far worse.

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      8 months ago

      Meanwhile the US has successfully made people forget about the revelations that Edward Snowden made.