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They ran a low-tech version of this playbook in Tibet in the 50s. That erasure feels pretty complete now. Tibet is like some mix of history and dated fashion now. Fading along with Richard Gere. The refugees in India are basically 3rd gen immigrants with no live ties.
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Anyone who thinks China represents an alternative future for the world is indulging in pure wishful thinking. They are merely reproducing the worst of the West’s past, with better technology, and bigger bribes for the rest of the world to just look away.
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Did China ever have anything like even a brief historical period of liberal pluralism and open intellectual culture? This civilizational insistence on stability by any means necessary seems kinda insane. Especially for such a huge population.
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I sometimes think China is 1.5 billion people trapped by a shared language, while India is 1.2 billion people protected by the lack of one. There’s a strong correlation between linguistic monocultures and repressive polities.
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Only a designer could admire China’s governance model. It’s an aesthetocracy. Everyone I know who admires the “Chinese way” is an aesthete in some way.
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Free the Uighers! Amazon is apart of the CCP’s plan
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WAPO, and AMZN, owned by Bezos, are both stealth tools of the Chinese Communist Party...Makes perfect sense. Does anyone actually believe that the destruction of US Retail & Heartland America was due solely to Jeff's brilliance?..or even an accident? deep-throat-ipo.blogspot.com/2018/05/amazon
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So neocom trust fund twitter, radio free Amanda, hermit hrawang Zha etc, the same folks calling NK anti-imperialist and Cuba a blooming paradise but for US meddling, sees this as one big anti-China operation?
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Terrible article in @KatrinaNation's @TheNation purports to expose "Xinjiang Denialists," with emotive references to Holocaust. But it doesn't mention @AdrianZenz, the anti-Semitic Christian Zionist whose fabrications are at the heart of the narrative thenation.com/article/world/
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