Really strange to see this being said (not really, I'm being facetious), when officials were actually sacked and replaced for relatively low covid case counts. Meanwhile, someone like Ted Cruz still has a job.
I mean, these are people who have absolutely no idea what real democracy looks like, let alone any clue how Chinese government is actually structured or functions.
They also don't understand what human rights are. They have a very narrow understanding at best. When you tell people that contrary to the meme-level understanding in the west, the PRC is actually a bastion of human rights, they look at you as though you just killed someone. They don't seem to understand that human rights are more than just expression, they're also the right to life, food, etc. If a country brought more people out of poverty than the entire population of the US and EU combined, is that not an absolute human rights achievement?
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Really strange to see this being said (not really, I'm being facetious), when officials were actually sacked and replaced for relatively low covid case counts. Meanwhile, someone like Ted Cruz still has a job.
Unaccountable to the public, yet supported by an overwhelming majority of that public.
I have yet to hear an explanation for this phenomenon that does not rely on the assumption that we Chinese are all drones and Xi is our Queen.
There's the RFA-esque explanations like all Chinese are being forced to support the CPC at gunpoint. But yeah, that's not much better.
I mean, these are people who have absolutely no idea what real democracy looks like, let alone any clue how Chinese government is actually structured or functions.
They also don't understand what human rights are. They have a very narrow understanding at best. When you tell people that contrary to the meme-level understanding in the west, the PRC is actually a bastion of human rights, they look at you as though you just killed someone. They don't seem to understand that human rights are more than just expression, they're also the right to life, food, etc. If a country brought more people out of poverty than the entire population of the US and EU combined, is that not an absolute human rights achievement?
China is notoriously easy to keep together by force of arms. That's why in all of Chinese history we've only had one dynasty and no revolts at all.