I pretty much know nothing about it, and would like to learn.

Wikipedia is probably terrible, and I don't know where else to go besides there.

Also, let's throw in some information about the DPRK too while we're at it. All I've ever read about them are ridiculous stories about how they consider Kim Jong-Un to be a god-king and that they set up entire fake cities to fool western tourists.

  • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I would just like to make it very clear, in a broad sense, that there is not and never will be "an unbiased source of information" in regards to any subject. Every piece of information reported or ignored is informed by the biases of the person behind it. What you are looking for is a source that has a different bias, that doesn't have the imperialist/Cold War 2 aims of the US State Department and the various complicit/uncritical media organizations parroting its talking points. Some of the links shared in here are from Chinese government-owned media companies. Obviously biased. You're bound to get the Grayzone link, which is a website of avowed communist, media critical sources. Again, they have an obvious bias to dispel negative information about China. No one is giving information without an objective or opinion.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Agreed, but I think the cgtn NPC breakdown is about unbiased as you can get from any official source. It's presenting statistical data in an interesting way. Not to say statistics can't be biased, but this isn't really making any serious claims with the stats, just showing demographic representations in the NPC and most popular words in their reports over the past 100 years.

      • bubbalu [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Do you know the actual significance of the NPC, though? I was interested in that article too, but for all I know it could be equivalent to a party convention in the US in terms of its bearing on what finally happens.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It's the body that appoints officials, enacts laws, and amends the constitution as well as drafts the 5 year plans. It's outside the party (it has other party officials inside it, including KMT members), but is still mostly controlled by the party because of the high ratio of party members.

          I think the party still has final say? Like let's say a small group of Taiwan Democratic Self-Governance League and Revolutionary Kuomintang members decided they wanted to put up a vote about bringing the dynasty back or something, the party sould just shut that down.

          I'm not totally sure exactly how that works though.