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You own your property in China the same way you own it in western countries.

No, this is simply wrong.

Done.

I don’t think you have read my comment.

China has a homeownership rate that’s half again as big as the US

This is part of the ongoing misinformation by ml.

In the 1980s, China ‘formalized’ what is called ‘property rights’ of Chinese people. The government effectively granted citizens lease rights. These lease rights usually have a maturity of several decades (70 years if I remember correctly). However, the Chinese party-state still owns the land, which means the lease rights can be revoked at any time.

Now, propaganda channels report of high ‘property ownership in China,’ which is simply false. It’s basically some sort of subordination and serfdom: as long as you play by our rules and don’t ‘make trouble’, you can ‘own’ your flat. Just don’t criticize the Party or like the wrong post or something …

So the story of a high home ownership rate in China complete rubbish.

@frisbird@lemmy.ml

Here’s an article from an actual anthropologist: https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/teaching-tibetan-tibet-bilingual-education-survival

This article is from 2010. It’s 16 years old.

And it has, of course, nothing to do with the fact that China’s government is, once again, committing genocide.

These are empty words. What the Chinese Communist Party is doing here amounts to genocide.

And the people in China? Are they ‘boxed in’? By whom?

I don’t think that U.S. citizens ‘are still convincing themselves’ that it won’t happen given the protests there, and from what I hear from my own sources in the country and from U.S. people living abroad. The majority of U.S. people don’t want to become a country like China, and I am firmly convinced that a majority of Chinese don’t want their autocratic government, it’s just much harder to protest than in the U.S.

… american media to be loyal to the dear leader

There’s a lot room for improvement in U.S. media, but I can read a strong body of articles highly critical of the country’s leader, despite Trump’s push to suppress free speech.

However, there are no article in China critical of the country’s leader. How does that come?

Sanchez is just fighting for this political survival as corruption scandals involving close political allies and family members bite (his Socialist party were facing heavy losses in recent regional elections). I don’t buy into this person’s morality, especially as he contracted Spain’s judicial wiretap system to China’s Huawei. This is just another attempt of distraction.

I don’t know, I haven’t read it.

But.

This.

Unfortunately, fears for press freedom in all parts of Africa have been increasingly under threat in recent years, but it doesn’t come primarily from domestic players or ‘billionaire media’.

For example, the African Center for Strategic Studies is mapping a surge of disinformation in Africa, arguing that Russia and China are the biggest sources of misinformation and disinformation.

Nearly 60 percent of disinformation campaigns on the continent are foreign state-sponsored—with Russia, China, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, and Qatar as the primary sponsor.

In another report, China’s Narrative Warfare in Africa: Influence and Mechanisms, scholars say,

Multilateral exchanges enable the CCP to position itself as a “central node” within China’s African networks, encouraging a “group-think” mentality among the participating political elites. The CCP also trains over 2,000 African political cadres and several hundred local government officials annually, aiming to familiarize local political elites with China’s approach to economic development and political governance.

Additionally, the CCP funds and constructs government and party buildings, hospitals, and schools. A notable example is the $40 million construction of the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Leadership School in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Completed in February 2022, the school serves as a hub for disseminating China’s governance model and political ideology among African elites.

In a Q&A, security analyst Beverly Ochieng, breaks down the growing presence of China and Russia in the region and their influence on media in the continent: "China and Russia are increasing their footprint”: How & why authoritarian states seek to exert influence through the media in Africa

So we shouldn’t downplay media concentration in Africa, but the problem is much bigger. The biggest problem comes from elsewhere.

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If that’s bad, why the same …

Yes, this is very bad, as China helps the Iranian regime to suppress its citizens. The estimates how many of Iranians have been killed vary, but even the lowest numbers are in the thousands. China is contributing to that by providing the same technology that it uses in Xinjiang and other regions to suppress the population.

A recently leaked wedding video laid bare the luxurious lives of Iran’s political elite and highlights hypocrisy of Islamic Republic. A recent survey found that Iranians are so desperate about their totalitarian government that they agree more on regime change than what might come next. Similar surveys are fully in line with other research such as on in 2022 that found that a majority of Iranian reject compulsory hijab and an Islamic regime.

Reports and interviews of exiled Iranians who have family at home clearly say they want a regime change as ‘people need to take back Iran by ourselves and for ourselves.’

I could continue almost endlessly with such reports, all of them, of course, very reliable, but I guess it woudn’t bear fruit here.

What makes this whataboutism to defend China and authoritarian regimes - because this is how your comment can only be interpreted - is not the whataboutism itself as such is widespread on Lemmy. This time it comes from a moderator, though. It’s amazing how many admins and mods here in the Lemmyverse. There are ‘soft’ versions of the grad and bear communities where violence against civilians is literally celebrated, as another study on left-wing extremism in from last year showed.

Our findings reveal a substantial increase in user activity and toxicity levels following the migration from the [subreddits] r/GenZedong and r/GenZhou to lemmygrad .ml. We also identify posts that support authoritarian regimes, endorse the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and feature anti-Zionist and antisemitic content. Overall, our findings contribute to a more nuanced understanding of political extremism …

We all have different opinions, and that’s good for a lively discussion. But in these communities they are literally cheering the death and the violence against innocent people such as Ukrainian civilians. If you don’t believe me or the study, please feel free to visit their communities and read their post and comment yourself.