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China continues to be framed as evil for being authoritarian by a [western] media that is promoting the most authoritarian regimes that have ever existed on earth.

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Point being: there is a helluva lot more freedom in China than there is in the West, and someone just has to say it. I’m sick of being accused of being a Chinese shill. This is stupid and childish. All I am doing is telling the basic truth: the West is now the most restricted, authoritarian, oppressive and bizarre society that has ever existed on earth, and nothing the Chinese do could ever compare to what we are doing now as routine.

>China continues to be framed as evil for being authoritarian by a [western] media that is promoting the most authoritarian regimes that have ever existed on earth. [...] >Point being: there is a helluva lot more freedom in China than there is in the West, and someone just has to say it. I’m sick of being accused of being a Chinese shill. This is stupid and childish. All I am doing is telling the basic truth: the West is now the most restricted, authoritarian, oppressive and bizarre society that has ever existed on earth, and nothing the Chinese do could ever compare to what we are doing now as routine.

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[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Unless one has lived there, through this, and intimately knows the nuance of the culture, it's impossible to compare the destruction. Through all of this, in the US, we still had minimal freedom of movement. We haven't started getting arrested for our social media posts yet. I'd rather be here, though i say this in ignorance, having never visited China.

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Yeah I guess you can say you just don't know if you haven't lived there. From the outside it looks like they have a fairly orderly society that allows people freedom of movement, freedom of speech minus criticizing the government, and didn't force-close small businesses forcing the middle class towards poverty. I'm sure they've got plenty of problems too.

That's just an outsiders perspective though.

Edit: I wonder how they view our lockdown measures. Do you think the grass looks greener on our side of the fence? I mean they do buy property here.