[ilamont]

Under the CCP, the "rights" pendulum swings wildly for society and the economy. Some policies and edicts seem well thought out, others seem impulsive and extreme with little regard to long-term consequences or the impact on China's people.

100 flowers/Great Leap Forward. Cultural Revolution/Deng reforms. Tiananmen/hypernationalism.

Tech has enjoyed a relatively open hand for two decades. Now the fist is closed and comes smashing down. Justification for clampdowns, crackdowns and purges are really about CCP leaders using all tools at their disposal to maintain a hold on power.

[onethought]

You quote policies from at least 30 years ago?

So by comparison we are taking the highly successful policies of Reagan and Nixon… perhaps with the Japanese internment camps and dropping nuclear weapons thrown in? (For a similar time period in the US)