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Re:Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Ko... by PixyMisa on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @08:01PM (#20763276)
China is a one-party state where even the army belongs to the party. It's possible to imagine something worse; we've had plenty of examples, unfortunately.

It's easy to imagine something better.

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Re:Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Ko... by markus_zhang on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @08:05PM (#20763295)
I'd love to imagine, but in reality TBH I don't see a lot of positive examples.

If you hate the one-party idea, just think one more layer -- there are factions inside the party, probably more than 2 actually.

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Re:Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Ko... by EarthMephit on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:12AM (#20764845)
New Zealand, all the Nordic countries, many western democracies all provide very good examples of good government without jailing people who speak up against their rulers and without strict censorship laws

They are all really nice countries to live in too

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Re:Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Ko... by umeshunni on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:34PM (#20771597)
New Zealand and all the Nordic countries can fit into a suburb of Shanghai.

I think most westerners don't realize the magnitude of China and that managing/ruling/governing a country of 1.3B diverse citizens with thousands of a years of history is a larger challenge than managing a small country.

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