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Up to about ten years ago, the Chinese government was generally viewed as becoming more liberal, progressive and open. Under the current regime, the opinion of
by mr_toad 7y ago
Up to about ten years ago, the Chinese government was generally viewed as becoming more liberal, progressive and open. Under the current regime, the opinion of most western commentators has gone the other way.
- seanmcdirmid 7y ago11 years ago actually, and that was mainly just for the 2008 Olympics, they quickly retreated after the games. The backpedaling definitely started under Hu even if Xi accelerated it. But there is hope: another Olympics is happening in 2022, they might restart another charm campaign so that isn’t a disaster.
- philwelch 7y agoShades of 1936.
- CapricornNoble 7y ago>>>Up to about ten years ago, the Chinese government was generally viewed as becoming more liberal, progressive and open. Here's a few articles from what I guess would be contrarian authors then. [1][2] Personally I always thought the idea that China would becoming progressively democratic to be deluded. There are enough examples of well-managed authoritarian capitalism producing good results in Asia for the Chinese to not change course, to say nothing of the inherent greed of the Princelings who directly benefit from their positions of power. [1]https://web.archive.org/web/20180918212727/http://www.aei.org/publication/chinas-stubborn-anti-democracy/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180918212727/http://www.aei.or... [2]https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-slow-road-democracy https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-slow-road-democracy