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corruption in the CPC; that’s well-documented. China also has the awful distinction of executing the most people of any country on Earth, including for non-violent drug crimes. Its human rights abuses against the Uyghur minority— although cynically seized upon by anti-China politicians like Marco Rubio who couldn’t care less about human rights—are still real and horrifying. Working conditions in many Chinese sweatshops and factories are abominable, just like the European factories and sweatshops of the 19th century that Karl Marx railed against. Perhaps not by coincidence, the Chinese government has even cracked down on Marxist students and banned websites dedicated to Maoism—a curious action for a supposedly communist state. Feminist activists, too, have been imprisoned for things like reporting on the #MeToo movement or handing out stickers. Other restrictions on public speech and artistic expression are equally impossible to defend, like the ban on supernatural horror films and all forms of pornography (including eating a banana in a way authorities deem too “erotic”). For that matter, allowing billionaires to exist at all, even heavily regulated, shows that China hasn’t quite got the hang of communism yet.
✏️ Concise list of arguments about why China isn’t exactly great..
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but as always, two things can be true. You can be terrible and still do good things. Oof, that’s a tough one actually. followup
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