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The Chinese government is not the Chinese people

I don't think the Chinese people approve of many of the things their government does. Though censorship makes dissent harder to "prove"




A lot of americans don't approve of many things the government does but we don't call them a dictatorship oppressing the people.

Plenty of western countries are involved in censorship on a smaller scale but that's not considered evil and suppressing the true views of the public.

One easy example being mega projects, here in the west we seem to wax poetic constantly about returning to the good old days where a nation could undertake mega-projects and yet china just keeps doing them faster than we can keep track.

I'm sure many westerners and chinese both want to see these things happen and yet they are doing it and we aren't? Is that some proof that we are suppressed citizens? Or maybe its a bit more nuanced.


>A lot of americans don't approve of many things the government does but we don't call them a dictatorship oppressing the people.

Because the government doesn't block you from saying those things. It's concerning to me that you don't appear to know what the definition of 'oppression' or 'dictatorship' is.

>One easy example being mega projects, here in the west we seem to wax poetic constantly about returning to the good old days where a nation could undertake mega-projects and yet china just keeps doing them faster than we can keep track.

When you throw enough suffering and death at a project, you can build quickly. Nobody with a brain is suggesting we do projects the same way we did the hoover dam that resulted in silicosis.


> but we don't call them a dictatorship oppressing the people.

That's because there's an actual definition of dictatorship. China is a dictatorship, the US is not.

> Plenty of western countries are involved in censorship on a smaller scale but that's not considered evil and suppressing the true views of the public.

Yes it is.




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