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Where it will become the far-left vs the far-right. And honestly, the US "far-left" isn't really that extreme compared to some European parties.
1. https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
I used to believe this until I read up on how prisoners in the US basically work like indentured servants for pennies.
There's a few news articles and occasional "anger" at the situation, but I read about it 15+ years ago and nothing has changed.
It's not like the average Chinese person is against human and worker rights. If you talk to them, of course they will say they value it.
It's just those in power don't care. And those that do care, don't have the power to change anything.
> Xi is apparently painted by US officials as an elitist ‘who believes that the offspring of Maoist revolutionaries are the rightful rulers of China.’
> On the question of human rights, the cables apparently have little to say on Xi’s views, but they do note that his father was critical of the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protesters and also that the Dalai Lama apparently had ‘great affection’ for Xi’s father.
> There’s also mention of Xi’s now notorious (and not very diplomatic) outburst during his trip to Mexico a couple of years ago, when he complained to some overseas Chinese that: ‘There are some well-fed foreigners with nothing to do, who point to China and make unnecessary accusations.’
If I'm not mistaken, both these countries became wealthy during the dictatorship period. It was only after the stability and wealth that they become democracies.
Taiwan's first democratic vote was in 1996 and South Korea's first public election was in 1987.