I get so much conflicting information about China, some say it's a dictatorship, a creepy dystopian surveillance state. Other times I hear it's a lovely, friendly country with a great quality of life.

I admit, I'm a lazy :LIB: and I don't know much about China. So I have a few questions:

  1. Is China a democracy? I know it's single-party ruled, but can they choose their leaders within the communist party?

  2. What is the work culture like for the average person? Are people overworked and underpaid, like I've read in western media, or is that all projection?

  3. Is the average person happy? How are disadvantaged people treated?

  4. What's privacy like there? As bad as the west, better or worse?

It would be cool to get some answers from someone who has actually lived in China, if any of you have. I'm pretty sure we have a couple of Chinese users?

P.S. Pls don't gulag me for being taking so long to learn more about world politics I am terrible at being a leftist :anarcho-bottom: :left-unity-4:

  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Is China a democracy? I know it’s single-party ruled, but can they choose their leaders within the communist party?

    The CPC only holds like half two thirds of the seats on the NPC and the standing committee. There are a number of parties that have seats in the national government. IIRC though they don't have parties that like, totally oppose the existing government, like the GOP or whatever, it's more like, for example, a small party representing teachers to make sure their opinions get airtime in government decision making?