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Kids and Teens in China Banned From Playing Online Video Games for More Than 3 Hours Per Week
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and then ruled by autocrats, so more of the same?
Looks at French Revolution. That's a true revolution. Yours? 🤣
Silicon Valley and tech have done more harm to society than good.
I don't know if I agree with you (genuinely feel this way).
But you're still using Silicon Valley inventions and tech though.
Oh for sure every systems has its flaws. I can name many for China's but the fact can't be denied. Chinese people are RULED.
It doesn’t matter. Silicon Valley has done more harm than good. I truly believe that. And it only seems to be getting worse.
I might be the only person here on Macrumors who has actually been to China.
Let me say this to you: People in China gives a f about you labeling them as "RULED". People just live their daily lives. The government has way fewer interventions into their daily lives than you think and they hate on the government just like anyone else does here.
Mao did, though, and some rumors have it that Xi does, too. Even though he has pretty Peng Liyuan as wife.
This is delusion pure and simple. Yes, all European are autocratic for the most part of their history. Why? Because human beings only have a mean of mass education at the very recent time but when we, human beings, develop critical thinking, which you seem to lack, we know that absolute power shouldn't be in the hands of the few hence the political evolution of Western countries, which Chinese still fails to do and that's the point: the Chinese simply isn't evolved enough.
Oh I didn't know Tim Cook can persecute any American he doesn't like, like Xi and the gangs can. Feel free to give some examples of that then.
China is the epitome example of success of socialism/communism/left/whatever you name it. It's a rising superpower with heavy socialism, to the point they are even attacking their own giant tech companies in order to equalize the wealth.
Anecdotal. In the grand list of problems in China the occasional terrorist attack isn't even in the top 100. That's why most of their time and money is spent solving real problems like poverty, inequality, and lack of access to economic hubs. You know, improving all the metrics that are currently deteriorating in the West (or at the very least the US, some European countries are doing a little better).
In the grand list of problems in the West, radical Islamism isn't even in the top 100. That's why most of their time and money is spent pretending it's a top issue because it's a money making grift and serves to divide the working class against each other, all in service of some small group of freaks stealing from people. The actual top 100 issues must persist in order for the upper class to thrive.
The difference between the two is that China will cite the calls for a separatist Islamic state as "the problem" whereas someone like Macron will talk about "inherent incompatible values" as the issue, something that has little to no real impact in France outside of xenophobes getting angry. One is a legitimate economic threat, the other is a cultural boogeyman designed to scare people into voting for right wingers. "Radical Islamism" in China and US/Europe are radically different from each other.
"Heavy socialism". Come on man. Even republicans would be appalled by the lack of handouts in China.
Maybe you're the one that's dreaming because you don't seem to understand that the Chinese people already DID revolt, very successfully.
The CCP is literally the result of the Chinese people's revolt LOL. They don't need to revolt because their current system is what they revolted for.
If that's the kind of revolution they like to boast then good for them. What do they got from it really? 🤣
and if you know history well you'll know CCP didn't revolt against anyone successfully. They just took advantage of the power vacuum after WW2. No emperor had been thrown out by CCP. The last Chinese emperor already lost his power long before that.
So maybe it's YOU who's in the dreamland to think CCP revolt against any emperor?
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I can see China revolting again and become more democratic. The younger generation wants more control. The older generation just needed food to eat first.
Perhaps the CCP was actually the right government for China. To pull 1.3 billion people out of poverty requires hard decisions and maybe authoritarian was the only way to do it.
India became a democracy at around the same time the CCP was formed.
Here's the economic results of it:
In my country, parents are outraged when their kids are required to wear masks in school. I can't imagine if this were ever implemented in the US.
Uh, rejuvenation of the Chinese civilisation? Uniting a country torn apart by aggressive Western and Japanese colonialists?
What they got is a breathtakingly successful effort to eradicate poverty and become one of the fastest growing economies in world history. You may not like it but the Chinese people on the whole certainly do.
Lack of handouts? Are you the bottom of the bottom Chinese citizens? The Chinese government does put out help for many of the poor in the outer cities. Do recognize the population of China, and thus what you feel as a "handout" might be quite luxurious when you are trying to feed almost 1.5billion people.
It doesn’t matter, really, there will be enough willing women for them, and Trump. The point is, no Chinese women are “conscripted for royal entertainment“. That’s what matters. Polygamy by the rich and powerful has always existed.
There will be a few casualties, I know. Everyone of them got some.