.... I don't think this is quite true in China. The Chinese political system is complex, but I think it's trying to do right by its people. It just has an extre

.... I don't think this is quite true in China. The Chinese political system is complex, but I think it's trying to do right by its people. It just has an extremely non-Western perspective on the concept of "right." The Chinese political establishment doesn't concern itself with the rights and outcomes for individuals, in the way the West does. It concerns itself with the outcome of populations. In the US, the needs of the individual outweigh the needs of the many. In China, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. If an individual or a group is disrupting the collective good, they need to be managed. China has done amazingly well for improving the general welfare. It was a very poor country until just a few decades ago. Extreme poverty is on-track to being eliminated, if it hasn't been already (depending on where you place the threshold). Thing like access to housing, food, and medicine are improving. Schools are excellent. Once you have those basic needs met by everyone, China seems to be moving onto handling issues like stress; the human load of the progress, in terms of work weeks, was tremendous, and China is trying to curtail that, perhaps not to Western standards, but to something manageable. China has increasingly started cracking down on corruption too. It has problems, and I'm not trying to downplay those, but it's not Russia, where an oligarchy is draining and bankrupting the general population for their own betterment.