China "stands on the right side of history" - Xi Jinping

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China "stands on the right side of history," the country's leader Xi Jinping said Saturday in a New Year's address that came as questions swirl over his government's handling of COVID-19 and economic and political challenges at home and abroad.

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But, among other things, on the wrong side of epidemiology.

[klauskunkel]

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China "stands on the right side of history" - Xi Jinping

Nope. You are communists, so you stand on the left side, the far left. Do I have to explain the basics of politics to you, Xi? Really?

[ozimoron]

12 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

Nope. You are communists, so you stand on the left side, the far left. Do I have to explain the basics of politics to you, Xi? Really?

Yeah, you need to explain how modern China is a communist country. I'm not suggesting that I support Xi at all. China hasn't been a communist country since Mao Tse Tung.

[stevenl]

Easy to be on the right side if you write the history books yourself.

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1 hour ago, ozimoron said:

Yeah, you need to explain how modern China is a communist country. I'm not suggesting that I support Xi at all. China hasn't been a communist country since Mao Tse Tung.

Well, it's definitely reverting towards more state control of the business sector. The government sector is now being propped up more than ever by the private sector. Xi has installed party apparatchiks in various private businesses. The economy is greatly distorted by the spending of provincial and local governments on projects that contribute in the short run to GDP but are not actually productive. Like housing projects with no one to live in them. Not so long ago the real estate sector engrossed 25-30% of the chinese economy. China is in real trouble. It's becoming more and more apparent that governance based on rule by one individual or clique who claims omniscience, is self-crippling.

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They started it and they finished it.

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I beg to differ

[ozimoron]

7 hours ago, placeholder said:

Well, it's definitely reverting towards more state control of the business sector. The government sector is now being propped up more than ever by the private sector. Xi has installed party apparatchiks in various private businesses. The economy is greatly distorted by the spending of provincial and local governments on projects that contribute in the short run to GDP but are not actually productive. Like housing projects with no one to live in them. Not so long ago the real estate sector engrossed 25-30% of the chinese economy. China is in real trouble. It's becoming more and more apparent that governance based on rule by one individual or clique who claims omniscience, is self-crippling.

State control is socialism, not communism. China is bordering on fascism if not completely fascist now. .

[Hummin]

8 hours ago, ozimoron said:

Yeah, you need to explain how modern China is a communist country. I'm not suggesting that I support Xi at all. China hasn't been a communist country since Mao Tse Tung.

They have modern sosialist marked economy. 

 

Vietnam as well and less successful cuba and NK