There’s a reason they’ve carefully constructed the image of China as an “Authoritarian” dystopia (Ironically by claiming that they do everything that the west already does ie. surveillance, credit scores etc.) so that when confronted about the contradiction, they can default to “BUT AT WHAT COST???”
I had a genuine conversation with a liberal at a social gathering, where there was a discussion about how the west was losing influence. I brought up how maybe the world would be better off if China and the global south in general stood on equal grounds. Their genuine reaction was this: “Hmmm, I guess technically it wouldn’t be quite as bad for us in the west, since China mainly oppresses their own citizens, not us.”
There’s a reason they’ve carefully constructed the image of China as an “Authoritarian” dystopia (Ironically by claiming that they do everything that the west already does ie. surveillance, credit scores etc.) so that when confronted about the contradiction, they can default to “BUT AT WHAT COST???”
I had a genuine conversation with a liberal at a social gathering, where there was a discussion about how the west was losing influence. I brought up how maybe the world would be better off if China and the global south in general stood on equal grounds. Their genuine reaction was this: “Hmmm, I guess technically it wouldn’t be quite as bad for us in the west, since China mainly oppresses their own citizens, not us.”