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by mitthrowaway2 601 days ago
That's not nearly the impression that I got from reading the GP comment. Did you mean to reply to a different one?

If anything, it seemed rosy; for example I was under the impression that China had cracked down on VPNs. But if GP says they're still widely accessible, then it leaves me with the impression that China has more free access to information than I previously thought.
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sdwr 601 days ago
"High profile coverups, the national pension fund has been emptied. Chinese with money seek to escape overseas. The education system is terrible."

The picture being painted is of a doomed, sinking ship.

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mitthrowaway2 601 days ago
It strikes me as a picture filled with both positives and negatives, and the point being made is not that China is a doomed sinking ship, but that the challenges it is dealing with aren't analogous to the ones faced by the US in the 19th century. (I don't know if wealthy 19th-century Americans did or did not aspire to move their wealth to Europe or send their kids abroad for school, but at least, the argument being made by the poster suggests a belief that they were not).
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t-3 601 days ago
Not a great picture, but also not really any different than the US or other western countries.
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surfpel 601 days ago
China has much more freedom than I was led to believe growing up. The restrictions seem pretty neatly constrained to things that are genuinely threats to public safety, “social harmony”, or national security.

It seems scary until you think about the kind of information warfare that a certain cross pacific neighbor likes to employ, frequently.

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