Its a worthy discussion. I'd like to see a much thorough vetting process of outlets like them, Lausan and that loose network of left-opposition blogs. My issues revolve around their line on stuff like hong kong, you should've seen their twitter in the middle of the movement. When the lines between them and those seemingly authenthic chinese opposition figure progaganda plants and these blogs become this blurries, you gotta get critical. There was stuff with them sourcing back to NED institutions, I thought there were other instances than CLB but I couldn't find it. It kinda looks like that typical, bizarre phenomena of left-communists that rejects any marxist structure on principle. There is no understanding of the practical reality, and the concessions that will be made within the existing contradictions. They exist in a headspace where every socialist project must be fake, because it doesn't perfectly uphold the marxist principles. Basically, it's the starting position of a western leftist that havent talked to socialist from socialist countries or shattered that idealist bubble. Though, that left-opposition position will always be vocal, we just need to stomp the breaks when there is a clear allignment between them and imperialism. That is the charitable assessment, but there's also tragic statements like these: ....

This [state homogenization] is of course exactly what the Chinese state continues to pursue today, causing the recent conflict around Mongolian language education, for example

China is a capitalist society ruled by a capitalist class and driven by capitalist imperatives