I think it is very polarised topic.

I noticed a pattern few month ago: you have a lot of bashing during East coast morning hours, followed by much more conciliatory toned wave of comments few hours after, when East coast wakes up.

So it's Europe/Africa/Asia that are bashing China, then the Americans come in later?

I'd say the difference in attitudes in between US East and West coast

Pfff my, a typo: last is West coast

I worked in Singapore in 2016 and in my exploration of various neighborhoods I did not see abject squalor, as seen in East LA, West Chicago, etc. people seemed employed and happy.

BTW, your comment on moderation is interesting.

Usually any claim of "poverty doesn't exist here" is not going to be very close to being accurate.

https://borgenproject.org/top-10-facts-about-poverty-in-sing...

it is up to each nation to choose it's form of government. it is not one size fits all

Saying the people of China have 'chosen not to choose' is bizarre and disingenuous - you are twisting the notion of freedom to imply Chinese people have chosen not to be free. The Chinese people have never in recent memory chosen the Chinese communist party to represent them exclusively.

as opposed to the illusion of choice provided in de facto two party "democracies"?

Yes, there's a world of difference between being able to choose from one option or 2.

As to the choice being an illusion because two parties often rule: tell that to the Whigs (one of the two parties that no longer exists in the UK), or to anyone that's held a balance of power in a coalition government.

one imprisons you for political dissent, one doesn't. "both sides are the same" is intellectually lazy.

Xi Jinping has no mandate to rule.

A friend who grew up in Singapore describes it as the capitalist version of North Korea