Honestly, my least favorite part about China discourse is that the things that are actually good and the things that are actually just bad about them are completely ignored and people just focus on propaganda talking points that are meaningless.
The biggest left critique of China should always be that there is very limited free movement within the country for their citizenry and this is slowly working out to result in regionalist class characteristics as certain parts of the country are far wealthier than others. Reform attempts have consistently not gone far enough.
The biggest favorable talking point should be that they're building a serious alternative to IMF financing for poor countries to build infrastructure. There is no global left without an alternative to the IMF and foreign aid from the USSR was tremendously important for the global left to survive as it did.
Instead everyone is focused on Uyghers/Falun Gong or if their teaching Marxist literature in schools.
Honestly, my least favorite part about China discourse is that the things that are actually good and the things that are actually just bad about them are completely ignored and people just focus on propaganda talking points that are meaningless.
The biggest left critique of China should always be that there is very limited free movement within the country for their citizenry and this is slowly working out to result in regionalist class characteristics as certain parts of the country are far wealthier than others. Reform attempts have consistently not gone far enough.
The biggest favorable talking point should be that they're building a serious alternative to IMF financing for poor countries to build infrastructure. There is no global left without an alternative to the IMF and foreign aid from the USSR was tremendously important for the global left to survive as it did.
Instead everyone is focused on Uyghers/Falun Gong or if their teaching Marxist literature in schools.