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Re:China's bloggers, filmmakers feel chill of internet crack... by Baeocystin on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @10:41PM (#14707801)
The 'Great Leap Forward' killed more people than the entire population of Canada. And that was only a handful of decades ago. The party that did so maintains an iron grasp on power, and corruption at all levels is rampant.

There are many, many Chinese who are working very hard for the betterment of their country, and there are many, many wonderful things about China. But it is virtually impossible to overestimate the difficulties they are going to be facing in the coming years. Their economic success, by becoming the manufacturing powerhouse of the world, has come at tremendous cost, and is not maintainable in the long term. We live in interesting times.

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Re:China's bloggers, filmmakers feel chill of internet crack... by KaoruAoiShiho on Saturday July 08, 2017 @11:07PM (#14728163)
You still didn't list a single thing :p
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Re:China's bloggers, filmmakers feel chill of internet crack... by Baeocystin on Friday July 14, 2017 @12:59AM (#14767587)
Emergentorder's list is a fine start. I didn't see a need to repeat. :)

I recommend watching a few more of the video series that I linked earlier, as well. I've watched several of them since I last posted in this thread, and (for what it's worth) I find his observations accurate and fair, both the good and the bad.

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