COVID China-pilled me. In America we got to see COVID victim mass graves. Told to go back to work, it's no big deal (while averaging 1 or 2 9/11s worth of death a day). Just a total failure of a response from basically every "western" nation in the worst way possible. China understood the needs of it's people and did what it could to protect them, for as long as it could.
On a related note, I'm reading The East is Still Red, by Carlos Martinez, very good, well sourced book on Chinese socialism, highly recommend to anyone curious about Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, "reform and opening up", etc etc
Yeah before covid I didn't give China much thought at all. They were just a "capitalist country pretending to be socialist" and I pretty much dismissed them out of hand.
Then covid happened, as you said. And moreover, there has been a steady stream of opinion polls coming from around the world that show that they are - BY FAR - considered the most "democratic" country based on what their own people perceive.
I ended up picking up Xi's book as well, and I'm sold now.
COVID China-pilled me. In America we got to see COVID victim mass graves. Told to go back to work, it's no big deal (while averaging 1 or 2 9/11s worth of death a day). Just a total failure of a response from basically every "western" nation in the worst way possible. China understood the needs of it's people and did what it could to protect them, for as long as it could.
On a related note, I'm reading The East is Still Red, by Carlos Martinez, very good, well sourced book on Chinese socialism, highly recommend to anyone curious about Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, "reform and opening up", etc etc
https://redletterspp.com/collections/current-titles/products/martinez-epub
Yeah before covid I didn't give China much thought at all. They were just a "capitalist country pretending to be socialist" and I pretty much dismissed them out of hand.
Then covid happened, as you said. And moreover, there has been a steady stream of opinion polls coming from around the world that show that they are - BY FAR - considered the most "democratic" country based on what their own people perceive.
I ended up picking up Xi's book as well, and I'm sold now.