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Been there. Great place. High standard of living, everyone is very productive. Still a dictatorship, and you can't speak ill of the government, but a successful one.

my understanding is that you can speak ill of the government publicly? like they'll nuke your billibilli if you talk shit about xi, but you can complain privately to a friend

not saying i agree with it, i'm saying it isn't as severe as the west makes it out to be

That is an extremely low bar. Imagine you couldn't do that, that would basically be George Orwell's 1984.

well in 1984 the two way televisions would get you

again i'm not saying i approve, I'm pointing out the distinction

What if they don't live in USA?

Abstracted from the HN specific audience, there’s around 17% chance they already do, which is to compare to the "around 4%" chance they live in USA.

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by...

This is such an hilarious answer. For most of the non-Western world, we don't distrust China because they have created benefits for the developing world. Whereas the USA has been outright imperialist for the past 60-70 years, undermining and overthrowing developing democracies, putting in dictators, using international organisations as debt traps, waging and funding wars that put our lives and economies at risk.

It is so pathetic how American's see themselves, and are so deeply afraid of China. I am far more fearful of the predatory nature of the USA and its agencies than I could ever be of China who would never have any interest in me.

Thank god. I'd been hearing we screwed up catastrophically by electing an admin that took a chainsaw to our foreign aid programs, killing millions in the developing world. Such a relief to learn we were never doing that stuff in the first place.

yeah comments like this show that ending USAID was the right move (apart from it's obvious utility to pass along bribes)

Ending USAID is the exact reason hundreds of thousands suffer more today than they did a few years ago. It is the reason mass migration takes place from developing to developed. The total ignorance and outright stupidity of comments like this is why Yanks should really take a seat when it comes to talking about geopolitics.

the left hand feeds while the right hand beats

The ROI for (white) men going to China for a period of their lives is extremely high. Where else are you going to get your “Abg cmo”

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