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psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 week agoChina just looks less bad in comparison than it used to be. When western governments don’t give a fuck about human rights anymore, they have no standing to criticize China over it. And when western media refuse to even address an ongoing genocide carried out with western weapons and money, trust in them is lost and people start to doubt whether the stories they tell about the evil adversary China are true after all.
In my opinion, of the two shitty governments in question, I believe China actually has the well-being of its citizens more in mind than do the oligarchs controlling the USA. China’s quality of life for its people has been rising by leaps and bounds in the past fifty years. Meanwhile over here the best people who aren’t in the 1% can hope for is stagnation, while for the majority things are just getting continually worse.
China’s quality of life for its people has been rising by leaps and bounds in the past fifty years.
You have a long way to leap when you start out so far behind.
Don’t forget the main reason western countries moved all their manufacturing there is because of their lack of labour rights.
mech@feddit.org 1 week ago
Yes, that was always the Chinese government’s deal with its citizens: We make your life better, as long as you don’t rebel, resist or demand “freedom”.
And the western model was “we give you personal freedom, consumer goods and some participation in government, so you don’t demand an actual redistribution of wealth and power”.
But in many western countries, especially in the US, the rich and powerful have stopped honoring their part of the bargain.