• PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    the absolute shock of the people i work with when i say anything positive about “bad China” is all the anecdotal proof i need to know how true this is

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      2 months ago

      Try it out in your life, point out any well-documented objectively good thing China has done recently. This could be curing Diabetes, building thousands and thousands of km of high speed rail, meeting their 2030 green energy goals ahead of schedule, eliminating extreme poverty, etc.

      In nearly 100% of cases, in America at least, they will retort with a “but at what costs” or “that’s made up”. The only exception is certain Chinese people, fellow MLs, or people with direct firsthand knowledge and experience of China.