Chinese Social Media Users Criticize Authorities in Rare Sign of Dissent (semafor.com) 39
An anonymous reader shares a report: Chinese social media users criticized two key government policies, rare signs of public dissent in the country where the internet is heavily censored. The death of the former head of China's one-child policy agency -- which for decades forced women to carry out abortions and sterilizations -- sparked criticism of the demographic effort, with one netizen lamenting the "children who were lost."
Others, meanwhile, criticized Beijing's leadership over its ongoing row with Tokyo, sparked by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi saying her country could intervene to defend Taiwan in a potential Chinese attack on the self-ruled island, which Beijing claims as its own.
Others, meanwhile, criticized Beijing's leadership over its ongoing row with Tokyo, sparked by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi saying her country could intervene to defend Taiwan in a potential Chinese attack on the self-ruled island, which Beijing claims as its own.
Crappy report. (Score:1, Informative)
The link doesn't even add any further information, and is exactly the same as the summary. And the website is headed by previous editor of shitty buzzfeed.
Re: Crappy report. (Score:1, Insightful)
Wow, the Chinese bots got here fast. The truth is that China is rotting from the inside due to the totalitarian government they suffer under. China needs to rise up, throw off its chains, and take a rightful place among free and prosperous nations.
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China has never, in 5,000 years, known anything but 'totalitarian' governments. That's not a bad record. Modern representational republican-type government has been around for barely two centuries, and appears to be in danger of imploding from internal stresses. The Chinese people aren't screaming for free speech because neither they nor any of their ancestors ever expected it. What they do expect is that their leaders will take responsibility for guiding the country into the future, which they seem to
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What they do expect is that their leaders will take responsibility for guiding the country into the future, which they seem to be doing a fairly competent job of (unlike some of their past leaders). In barely three decades they've gone from being an almost completely rural Third World country
Yeah, this is the propaganda, but in per capita terms, China is still a poor country. The leaders are rich, and the average person is much better off than before.
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Why are you anonymous coward bringing up "Americans" whenever someone talks about your country? Wumao distraction tactic and Whataboutism, I get it.
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Based on what I can see from vloggers who actually visited China, the quality of life in the large cities is on par with developed nations.
Their leaders are not as rich as the ones in the US. China's Gini Index is 36, while the US's is 41.
They seem to have done a better job in encouraging competition. Their largest corporations are not nearly as profitable because they're constantly trying to undercut each other. That also means more competition for workers, So the CEO-worker disparity is not nearly as big.
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Based on what I can see from vloggers who actually visited China
Sounds like you are not well informed.
China's median income is less than USA's minimum wage. The elites in China are rich, but the average person is poor.
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In Shanghai, the median annual income by PPP is $38,000, on par with Rome and Madrid. For comparison, the SF Bay Area's median is $95,000. So they're poorer, but not poor.
Their income has also doubled in the last 10 years. While I doubt it'll double again in the next 10, I don't see any reason why the average Chinese person would have a problem with the CCP.
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I don't see any reason why the average Chinese person would have a problem with the CCP.
Because the CCP doesn't respect human rights.
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Sorry but PPP is widely used in economics to produce a realistic view of how much stuff money can buy. Someone earning $40,000 in the SF Bay Area is much worse off than someone making only $20000 in the Philippines because everything is more expensive here.
As for human rights, I don't know exactly what the situation is in China, but I don't think it will make a difference. Look at the US, how many people are riling up to overthrow the US government for banning pro-Palestine speech on college campuses? Or fo
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Sorry but
You're not sorry, you lied.
PPP is more often used by people like you, who don't understand statistics, and want to pretend they are right.
I find it more interesting to see you cut all the country people out of your equation. That is why China doesn't have human rights: because people like you don't care about your fellow humans.
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"Based on what I can see from vloggers who actually visited China"
you were watching what's basically guided tours & you're being followed & surveilled at all times.
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There's plenty of people filming ordinary stuff such as this https://youtu.be/KRwgga2CkLU [youtu.be]. They were clearly not on a guided tour given how much trouble they had with paying for the subway.
As for being followed, there is no evidence of that. Nor is it possible to prove a negative. I mean, how do you know the CIA isn't following you around? They can do this by simply tracking your phone.
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there are several influencers that have exposed the shepherding & surveillance.
For example, serpentza on YouTube. He lived there for over ten years, claims to speak & read Mandarin fluently & has a Chinese wife.
China is one of the handful of countries that require tourists to be registered within 24 hours with a police station although the way things are headed America may join the list. Penalties for failing to do so vary widely, often no more than a warning but has also resulted in fines, deni
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Ah I used to watch that guy. He and laowhy86 were probably paid off as a part of a CIA influence operation. Nobody goes from enjoying their time in China to suddenly bashing everything China. It's way too sudden and coordinated. Even if you argue what they're saying today is truthful, you have to wonder how they did such a great job at lying to everyone right up to the 180 degree turn.
Their videos went from very simple vlogs to every thumbnail being click bait, often backed up by an internet controversy and
5000 years? (Score:1)
"China" as we know it is only about 80 years old. What you are referring to in those 4,920 years? Empires with their own country names, flags, currencies, some even different official languages. They just happened to occupy the same area.
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They have a common written language, units of measurement, currency, governing philosophy, laws, culture and genetics. Of course those evolved slowly over time, but each dynasty inherited from the previous dynasties. You wouldn't say the United States is one year old because Trump became the president in 2024.
The communists did try to throw it all out, but they've failed and are now doing the same thing as the previous dynasties.
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*So much so that Harvard had to discriminate against Asians...*
Then again, Harvard has a long history of discriminating against the very people and cultures they should be seeking to recruit.
In the 1920s and 1930s, it was Jewish student quotas that cost Harvard a place in history as the nursery of 20th-century physics. Now it's Asians. Next generation, who knows. The only safe bet is that Harvard will shoot itself in the foot again.
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"China has never, in 5,000 years, known anything but 'totalitarian' governments. That's not a bad record"
add this to their record of impressive accomplishments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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Huh? He was a mouthpiece for some warlords and a founder of the Koumingtang, the group of warlords who lost to Mao and ran to Taiwan for refuge (and brutally suppressed the native Taiwanese). Just because he got the Emperor to step down to leave the warlords in charge doesn't make the subsequent government a 'democracy' by any measure.
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It's only a story because the author seems to have confused China and North Korea. Anyone paying attention will have noticed that this kind of criticism is common in China.
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Journalism seems to be a lost art.
China simply did not know (Score:1)
The powers that be are not going to change capitalism so how will they raise birth rates?? The carrot or the stick?
Some initial leanings are both carrot and stick:
https://www.the [theguardian.com]
Re:China simply did not know (Score:4, Interesting)
The world is way overpopulated. A decreasing population is a good thing. And birth control is by far the preferred solution over war.
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That very much looks to be the case until one looks deeper. Most developed countries in the world have aging populations, and the fertility rate is below the population replacement rate of 2.2. If that remains the case, then you will actually see a decreasing population. Heck, Europe was already seeing it, which is why they tried open borders. Which may have worked had they made good choices about who they allowed in
What we really need is old people to die off quickly, and then people continue current
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That the absolute most effective way to reduce births is: late stage capitalism - right now tanking birth rates world wide.
Well China was nowhere near "late stage capitalism" when the policy was implemented was it.
Is it likely they would have gotten anywhere close to it? How much worse would it be if they had reached "late stage capitalism" with 3 billion people instead?
(Not even considering the environmental damage a rich 10x as many people as America country would cause)
Pro-government criticism? (Score:2)
Xi wants more kids so criticism of the One Child Policy is beneficial for him.
The comments on the Taiwan policy appear to be pro-Unification so again beneficial to him.
oh hell yes (Score:2)
It's like millions of voices cried out (Score:2)
and were suddenly silenced.