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Calling the Communist Party of China (CPC) the Americanized "CCP" acronym is an eyebrow raiser. It's a plausible mistake -- the guy could have seen that acronym used and just assumed that was the proper translation -- but not a likely one, especially considering that there are English-language Chinese media outlets that use CPC.
Nah, he writes like a Westerner deliberately making mistakes so they sound like a non-native speaker.
He makes mistakes on things which have pretty firm rules "an actual" vs "a actual", or capitalizing after periods, but generally nails things that Chinese speakers have problems with, like tenses and articles (generally quite a few extra or missing "the"s in things written by Chinese ESOL people).
Also, he misuses commas and periods quite a bit, despite Chinese also using commas and periods in a very similar way to English.
Faaaaaaaaake.
It looks like he does speak Chinese though.
It looks that way, but at the same time their grammar is basic (and often a bit wrong). Could be a language learner or native being exceptionally sloppy.
Idk, maybe he's really Chinese and destined to get visit from the MSS :inshallah:
no its ree-eel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHgbbM9pu4
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uncritical support for the CPC for bullying neolibs
I [..] get to be called a western spy [...] Every Fucking Times (sic)
Brilliant.
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Hello, Mr. Xi? Yes, that person right over there.
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this person is LARPing and if they're Chinese they live in Taiwan or Thousand Oaks
Since the downfall of the Gang of Four an ideological trend has appeared that we call bourgeois liberalization. Its exponents worship the "democracy" and "freedom" of the Western capitalist countries and reject socialism. This cannot be allowed. China must modernize; it must absolutely not liberalize or take the capitalist road, as countries of the West have done. Those exponents of bourgeois liberalization who have violated state law must be dealt with severely.
Bourgeois liberalization would plunge our society into turmoil and make it impossible for us to proceed with the work of construction. To check bourgeois liberalization is therefore a matter of principle and one of vital importance for us.
By carrying out the open policy, learning foreign technologies and utilizing foreign capital, we mean to promote socialist construction, not to deviate from the socialist road. We intend to develop the productive forces, expand socialist public ownership and raise the people's income.
Without the Communist Party's leadership and without socialism, there is no future for China. This truth has been demonstrated in the past, and it will be demonstrated again in future. When we succeed in raising China's per capita GNP to US$4,000 and everyone is prosperous, that will better demonstrate the superiority of socialism over capitalism, it will point the way for three quarters of the world's population, and it will provide further proof of the correctness of Marxism. Therefore, we must confidently keep to the socialist road and uphold the Four Cardinal Principles (the Four Cardinal Principles established by Deng that are not up for debate within the CPC: upholding the socialist path, upholding the people's democratic dictatorship, upholding the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and upholding Mao Zedong Thought and Marxism–Leninism).
This time, we have to take action against those who openly oppose socialism and the Communist Party.
The struggle against the bourgeois Rightists in 1957 was carried somewhat too far, and the mistakes made should be corrected. But that doesn't mean that we have negated the necessity for this struggle as a whole.
The struggle against bourgeois liberalization is indispensable. We should not be afraid that people abroad will say we are damaging our reputation. We must take our own road and build a socialism adapted to conditions in China -- that is the only way China can have a future. We must show foreigners that China's political situation is stable. If our country were plunged into disorder and our nation reduced to a heap of loose sand, how could we ever accomplish anything? The reason the imperialists were able to bully us in the past was precisely that we were a heap of loose sand.
It's always important to not misrepresent his views regardless of whether or not we supported or opposed his development strategy for China and whether or not such a strategic retreat from certain aspects of Mao's strategy was completely necessary in going back to more of a NEP model for more gradual development. Many of the worst reforms of the "reform and opening-up" era actually occurred well after he was out of power as paramount leader and even well after he died in the later years of Jiang Zemin's leadership.
I don't think it makes sense to call a Chinese neolib who doesn't like local nationalists and human rights abuses a chud. It's a different ethos entirely.
I mean, claims of genocide and slavery we see in the western media are overblown, but how isn't detaining people in "vocational training facilities" against their will and without trial not human rights abuses?
Because - notwithstanding that I can't read anything regarding detention that doesn't also breathlessly cite Adrian Zens or getting into a discussion about how useless trials are or how a state should appropriately deal with actual people advocating for regime change of a socialist country - the human rights criticism can be equally (if not more so) applied to a whole range of neoliberal countries and it's entirety inappropriate to characterise what OP is doing as "doesn't like human rights abuses".
I'm not saying the guy is a right opinion haver. He's a neolib for god's sake. My point is that chuds are generally nationalist reactionaries of some sort. Chinese liberal opposition is a different beast.
imagine being in the only country to meaningfully reduce poverty in decades, one of the only(?) major economies not to suffer economic losses in the last quarter during the pandemic, seeing how neoliberal countries have repeatedly shat and pissed their pants for the last thirty+ years and going "yes. that is what i want to believe in. just shitting and pissing myself forever. give it to me"
ya of course you can just go there, and theres tons of videos of chinese people going through different cities and regions there and documenting daily life and stuff on youtube lol
wow the ccp propaganda machine is in overdrive, literally faking an entire society to mislead the world that sterilisations have increased five times from 50 to 250 people out of millions
You can take a train there. The Chinese government invested billions into connecting Xinxiang with the rest of China eve if those lines will never be profitable.
Have been to China. It did not give me authoritarian hellscape vibes. It was actually pretty fucking chill.
The part I was in for most of the time I was there was actually pretty commercial. There were like 4 Starbucks and McDonalds within walking distance of my hotel. It was hardly a communist utopia.
