• Soot [any]@hexbear.net
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    11 hours ago

    Nobody claims Tiananmen protests / deaths never happened (though none happened in the square itself), and people in China have democratic control over their officials at every level, at least as much as in the EU. There’s a fair bit of strawman and lack of research here. I’d suggest genuinely researching it instead of taking the ‘common knowledge’ at face value.

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      8 hours ago

      There’s a fair bit of strawman and lack of research here.

      First thing, that authoritarian regime is doing, is killing independent press. This is the first sigh, that this is not real democracy.

      Let see how “free” press is in the china?

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Index

      There is no such thing as a independent press in China.

      That’s why in countries like Russia and Hungary, free press was destroyed, and that’s why oligarchs bought almost all independent media in USA.

      Ok, but let’s go deeper. How many politician parties are in china? Can you help me finding out about all the independent parties, that are present in the whole China (not only in Hong Kong and Macau?)?