• FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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    It’s not nearly as authoritarian as people like to claim. Chinese citizens hold tens of thousands of protests each year against a wide variety of topics, and the government is legally required to respond to them. As a consequence, the Chinese government is orders of magnitude more responsive to local corruption or abuses of power than almost any western country.

    • iglou@programming.dev
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      It absolutely is. Have a look at the definition of authoritarianism, China checks all the boxes.