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Manj Vimukthi's avatar

Most people who criticize China including those on the left have never been to China and only get their information from biased bourgeois sources in the west. China is nothing like what your press tells you about. Their is more personal and individual freedom there and less repression than in the so called democratic countries. I lived and worked there for 5 years. China and the CPC are worthy of praise and emulation in so many regards. Don’t fall for the propaganda.

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Rebecca Turner's avatar

All very true. But let's not paint the CPC as some paragon of democratic virtue. Its government executes, it seems, a far larger number of people every year than does the USA or any other nation on Earth. Their police commit acts of repressive violence vastly worse than the anti-poor, racist US counterparts. There is little freedom of speech and no means to organise political opposition without risking a lifetime in prisons whose conditions are much more severe than those here in the UK. Whilst we might not have the ability to influence Chinese government policy as we can in the USA and UK, we must not ignore the harms caused to ordinary people by repressive governments just because the US administration regards them as enemies.

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