Struggle session engage. Post your pathetic arguments so that I and the other China Good Posters can dismantle them and you can learn.

Key points:

  • China is a democracy. It is arguably the most functional and responsive democracy in a major country today. Its citizens consider it more democratic than the citizens of almost any other country do their own.

  • China is on a clear path to socialism and economic justice. No nation in history has ever reduced poverty in anything like the way China is doing it.

  • The vast majority of people in the PRC support the CPC. This is not due to being brainwashed. Americans are brainwashed and still hate their government.

  • Almost everything you hear about China in the West sits on a spectrum between malicious misrepresentation to outright fabrication with no basis in reality.

  • China's ascension to the premiere global power is an extremely good thing for world peace and the global socialist movement. While China does not actively support other socialisms (sadly it's not as good as the USSR in this regard) it does not do imperialism. China will allow socialisms around the world to flourish simply by not actively crushing them like the US and Europe.

  • yeahhhhhhhhhboiii [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Here's an excellent essay by Michael Parenti on what Tibet was like.

    If you want the modern situation, I have linked an excellent video series of Tibet. Daniel tours Tibet, and shows you the life of local tibetans. Seriously, give it a watch.

    • gammison [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      That essay still says China is monumentally screwing up Tibet, creating a nostalgia for the feudal past. The past is trash to be sure (and the Dali Lama maintains that position too), but the actions the CPC has took in the development of Tibet directly cause modern tensions. If they didn't, then Xi would not have to make a mandate to fight "splitism" in Tibet 70 years after the annexation.

      • yeahhhhhhhhhboiii [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Yep, which is why I linked it. He's not pro-China, so I assume most libs would take to such an essay more. But it does describe the horrific feudal past, and how mysticism of Tibet was created in the West.

        And let's just say that modern tensions are not all created by CPC's actions, there is plenty of meddling by the CIA.

        A lot of tension would also come from poverty and lack of economic opportunity, something that the CPC has been tackling.