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> This argument would hold water if China's Internet policies were unique to telecom. They're not. The same instruments which protected Baidu and Tencent promot
by pavs 8y ago
> This argument would hold water if China's Internet policies were unique to telecom. They're not. The same instruments which protected Baidu and Tencent promote local steelmakers, phone makers, car manufacturers, battery and solar panel manufacturers and every other industry with a Princeling [1] attached.
For the most part the country is economically and socially stable and improving at rapid pace. Yes the country has its share of problems, but name me one country, democratic, developed or otherwise that doesnt have their share of problems.
The American/Western exceptionalism attitude towards other countries is kinda nauseatic.
China is not going around rigging pro-western government democratic countries election. Funding uprising and waging wars directly or directly (at least not at the scale USA is). Russia tried openning up their country and we know what happened to them, China may one day become more open but can't really blame them for being sceptical of the rest of the world.
- sdwa 8y ago>The American/Western exceptionalism attitude towards other countries is kinda nauseatic. So too is the "everyone's on aggregate just as bad as each other and everything is the same" equivocating approach to evaluating different countries and their systems. >For the most part the country is economically and socially stable and improving at rapid pace. Yes the country has its share of problems, but name me one country, democratic, developed or otherwise that doesnt have their share of problems. Nobody is saying Western countries are perfect. We just have the confidence in liberal democracy to at least say it is at least vastly superior to the dystopia China currently is. To say "China is improving at a rapid pace" is myopic. If you only care about economic development, then you are right, but if you care about civil liberties and human rights, then you could not be more wrong.