[dirtyid]

PRC centralized narrative setting apparatus is more efficient than constant misinformation shitshow on western platforms. Not to mention the entire reason why PRC has domestic info ecosystem is because they were prescient in filtering external content. The system already paid for itself many times over.

>They spend almost the same %GDP as the US does on the US military as on their internal suppression forces.

It's almost as if PRC doesn't spend that much %GDP on military. The waste is PRC spending as much as US on domestic policing, which is not great considering how militarized US policing is. Meanwhile PRC simply doesn't spend that much on defense <2% vs US ~3.5%, if you include guestimates of shadow budgets, 3% vs 6%.