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I think this is my favourite part
I wasn’t even gonna bother posting to slop bc it is mostly the typical pablum but this paragraph is truly shocking. I can’t remember the last time one of these articles very nearly called China’s political model a good thing
There is so little introspection on the mater, too.
Oh ok, so what does that mean?
Hmm, right I see. So China did market reforms but maintained its communist state, got it! So, Communist State + Market Reforms (aka do a little capitalism) = Great Success! But what about America?
Oh. Ok, Which parts of China's political model, exactly? Hmm, it doesn't say. This could mean anything. Is it the "core system of [...] political domination and heavy state involvement in everything." but without the Communist Party? If only the author had come to some kind of conclusion about what exactly Trump is appropriating from the Chinese model. If Trump is doing the "bad" part of the model, what part of the Chinese model are we supposed to be doing, exactly? If doing a little "capitalism" for China = Good, are we supposed to be ... doing a little ... communism in America? What would that even look like, I wonder. Nothing comes to mind, I guess.
I just get the feeling there is a quota on these types of articles at this point. We know a sort of elaboration on the subject would demonstrate the vacuousness of the author’s “analysis” too clearly.
What we should be discussing is how many guys the NYT has trapped in China for years in order to, in their view, substantiate their credibility. C = Number of Years Lived in Place * Age / Skin Tone
genocidal imperialists?
is this implying that china has always been communist?
Shen Yun live reaction:
Yes, the People's Republic of China is the only China
it worked well for China....anyways we dont actually want that.
Of course not. Because to make it work, the US would need a Communist Party that isn't totally useless. And no one who lived through the Cold War is going to allow that to happen.