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China is winning in every imaginable way (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So people like you can have the illusion of freedom. Speech that cannot be translated into tangible action is not freedom. The people in the west have the freedom to scream into the void, but not the freedom to change their conditions. Anybody who can't tell the difference between the two is so very lost.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Literally yes read Chinese papers. Comradely criticism is like Marxism 101

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

All news media run by the Party must work to speak for the Party’s will and its propositions and protect the Party’s authority and unity

They should enhance their awareness to align their ideology, political thinking and deeds to those of the CPC Central Committee and help fashion the Party’s theories and policies into conscious action by the general public while providing spiritual enrichment to the people

Xi Jinping February 2016.

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2016/02/191569/?amp https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/world/asia/china-media-policy-xi-jinping.html

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Taking the quote completely at face value:

So it's now censorship of freedom of expression if the state is not actively sponsoring, advertising, and distributing criticism of itself? I should try writing to NPR about how we need a proletarian party controlling the government so I can say that they've "censored" me when they obviously don't invite me on to talk about it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Okay now use your words and brain to explain what you just quoted and why it's a problem

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Your two sources are a NED funded paper and the New York crimes

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Yes I do, and the fact that Chinese system has shown itself to be flexible and adaptable is proof of that. A system can only evolve effectively when it can be criticized in a way that lead to action. That's how change happens. Western systems are the ones where effective free expression is forbidden, and that's why they've ossified and the ruling class no longer even pretends to care about public opinion.