Re:WeChat and the Surveillance State
by paulryanrogers on Saturday June 08, 2019 @09:15PM
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> CPC has done a damned good job of advancing the interests of the Chinese people.
Certainly the nation has modernized rapidly. But at what cost? Western media speaks of famines, proxy wars, land grabs, implicit and explicit suppression of anything/anyone different.
(Not saying other forms of governing are guaranteed to do better, but at least with democracies power is supposed to be more distributed.)
Certainly the nation has modernized rapidly. But at what cost? Western media speaks of famines, proxy wars, land grabs, implicit and explicit suppression of anything/anyone different.
(Not saying other forms of governing are guaranteed to do better, but at least with democracies power is supposed to be more distributed.)