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BrikoX to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 years ago

China using families as 'hostages' to quash dissent abroad

www.bbc.co.uk

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China using families as 'hostages' to quash dissent abroad

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BrikoX to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 years ago
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China using families as 'hostages' to quash Uyghur dissent abroad
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Refugees and activists tell the BBC intimidation tactics are tearing apart Uyghur communities overseas.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/863209

Archived version: https://archive.ph/5Ok1c
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230731013125/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-66337328

  • UFO
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    0•2 years ago

    Cool story. China is still authoritarian.

    China is a one party system with a “president” for life. Fancy that up all you want: still authoritarian with a dictator.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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      0•2 years ago

      You used so many words to tell us that you don’t know anything about Chinese political system and expose yourself as being confidently wrong. Maybe spend some time educating yourself instead of flaunting your ignorance in public.

      • UFO
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        If you thought that was “so many words” reality is too complicated for you.

        “The Government of the People’s Republic of China is a unitary Marxist–Leninist one-party authoritarian political system under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).”

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

        I look forward to you correcting that wiki page lol

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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          The fact that you use a wiki page as an authoritative source just further exposes what an utter clown you are. Let’s correct that for you:

          • https://www.tbsnews.net/world/china-more-democratic-america-say-people-98686
          • https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-26/which-nations-are-democracies-some-citizens-might-disagree
          • https://en.news-front.info/2020/06/27/studies-have-shown-that-china-is-more-democratic-than-the-united-states-russia-is-nearby-and-ukraine-is-at-the-bottom/
          • https://web.archive.org/web/20230511041927/https://6389062.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6389062/Canva images/Democracy Perception Index 2023.pdf
          • https://ash.harvard.edu/publications/understanding-ccp-resilience-surveying-chinese-public-opinion-through-time

          The people who actually live in China consider their democracy to work far better than pretty much any western shithole country that calls itself a democracy and have consistently higher satisfaction with their government because unlike in the west they see it working in their interest.

          Thinking that the number of parties is a measure of democracy demonstrates an infantile understanding of the concept. Democracy is a government that works in the interest of the majority and is held accountable by the majority. Procedural democracies such as seen in the west demonstrably produce terrible results in practice. As a recent study of US shows, the system does not actually work in a democratic fashion

          What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.

          Since your cognitive development stops at reading wiki articles here’s another one you should read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_centralism

          • UFO
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            0•2 years ago

            Here. I’ll help: What are the other political parties in China?

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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              Here you go ignoramus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_China

              • UFO
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                “eight minor political parties subservient to the CCP”

                Subservient to the CCP eh… So only one party

            • 133arc585
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              0•2 years ago
              • Chinese Communist Party
              • Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang
              • China Democratic League
              • China National Democratic Construction Association
              • China Association for Promoting Democracy
              • Chinese Peasants’ and Workers’ Democratic Party
              • China Zhi Gong Party
              • Jiusan Society
              • Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League
          • UFO
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            Sounds like a great edit for the wiki! Can’t wait to see your updates!

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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              Today I learned that there are people out there who so imbecilic that they treat wikipedia as some oracle of truth.

          • UFO
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            0•2 years ago

            So if I said “fuck the CCP” in China that’d be ok right?

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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              0•2 years ago

              Yes, it’s legal to be an idiot in China.

          • UFO
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            Common Yog… Send me another rant haha

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