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Empire of Illusion: Frank Dikötter on Why China Isn’t a Superpower (youtu.be)
posted 1 year ago by XBX_X 1 year ago by XBX_X +34 / -0
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– AntonioOfVenice 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

I've read this book. It's mostly wishful thinking. Note that there are no tent cities in the streets of Beijing, nor addicts everywhere, like there are in basically every Western country - including this guy's.

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– XBX_X [S] 6 points 1 year ago +6 / -0

Note that there are no tent cities in the streets of Beijing ...

No, because the CCP has the power and propaganda to round them up at gunpoint and ship them out to countryside villages. Idiot.

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– AntonioOfVenice 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Governments in the US have no power?

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– ArchRespawnsAgain 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

What's the tl;dr?

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– AntonioOfVenice 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

I couldn't give you one - the topic is too vast and my memory too shot. But basically, if you compare it to someone like the execrable Fukuyama, who calls Deng Xiaoping the greatest statesman of the 20th century, it was consistently putting a negative spin on everything - including Deng. It was as if it was written by someone with an axe to grind.

This same thing was true of his earlier books, but there it was at least justified.

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– ModsAreAIDS 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

Now show us where the western countries have been building ghost cities to prop up a counterfeit economy like China has. A dictatorship cracking down on their homeless and keeping them out of sight isn't the own on the west you seem to think it is.

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– AntonioOfVenice 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Now show us where the western countries have been building ghost cities to prop up a counterfeit economy like China has.

I can show you a western country that's building a ghost currency to prop up a counterfeit economy.

A dictatorship

Good thing we're not. We're a democracy. Imagine if the rulers could do anything they wanted, like bring in millions of illegals, promote transgenderism and incite hatred against the majority race. Or indict their political opponents 91 times.

cracking down on their homeless and keeping them out of sight isn't the own on the west you seem to think it is.

I guess they're missing out on the blessings of stepping through human feces on a daily basis.

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