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FairAndUnbiased said:

Completely incomparable.

Actual surveys including some already posted here (I can't find easily on mobile but you probably can easily) show that the most discontent fall into 2 categories:

1. Urban, post 70s/80s who are the "bagholders" of the real estate crisis that bought high and are seeing their imaginary wealth go down.

2. Boomers in rural areas who missed out on the benefits of reform altogether.

Both demographics are now relatively old and have something to lose. Boomers have their pension to lose and the urban middle aged have their remaining property to lose, as well as their lives.

In 1989 the protestors had nothing to lose except their lives but had absolute power to gain if they won.

The problem is that unlike in 1989, mere reform is not enough to solve the problem. The issue is that these people are entitled. They are not satisfied with living in a safe society with good infrastructure. They want a society where they personally benefit from privilege and fuck anyone else who gets in their way. This toxic mindset has already brought down several other countries. A policy change to accommodate them would destroy actual trust in the government by everyone else, as privilege is inherently exclusionary.

Since reform will not work, further repression is the obvious solution. They might not be happy but making them powerless to lash about it would safeguard society as a whole.

They can always self deport elsewhere - without much of their money that will be prevented from leaving with capital controls - if they believe that China is too harsh on them.

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SanWenYu said:

IMO, there is now the third group, the laid flat youth who have become parasites living on their parents' retirement incomes. Automation will only make this group larger over time.

This is not a problem unique to China though. Perhaps at some point in the not so far future, the governments will need to collect tax of some sorts on robots for the jobs displaced.

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CrazyHorse said:

Socialists should like automation because it means that less people have to work shitty jobs. It’s not a problem for China because it knows it will be leaving a capitalist mode of production.

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Bellum_Romanum said:

Why can't the EU along with the wonderful British ask for all these stupendous technology from the true technological power and hub of innovation in all of Asia: India.

You don't have to believe me, a raging commie; instead, believe this Indian superior intellectual that lays down all the facts for the world to see.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1858725229948006451

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Bellum_Romanum said:

Why can't the EU along with the wonderful British ask for all these stupendous technology from the true technological power and hub of innovation in all of Asia: India.

You don't have to believe me, a raging commie; instead, believe this Indian superior intellectual that lays down all the facts for the world to see.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1858725229948006451

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SanWenYu said:

Except that China nowadays runs "the socialism with the Chinese characteristics". Those Chinese characteristics include free markets for all with only a few exceptions. The workers, unfortunately, are in a free market for hire, no matter what colours their shirt collars are in.

When someone lost his job to a robot, it would be hard to ask him to still love automation, in particular if the social safety nets have difficulty to keep the person's head above water. The governments will need new incomes to compensate for the increased social security spendings due to more job loss to robots.

Compared to, say, the US and some other developed countries, China is only in a slightly better position because to the Chinese governments personal income taxes are not as critical for now.

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SanWenYu said:

IMO, there is now the third group, the laid flat youth who have become parasites living on their parents' retirement incomes. Automation will only make this group larger over time.

This is not a problem unique to China though. Perhaps at some point in the not so far future, the governments will need to collect tax of some sorts on robots for the jobs displaced.

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Index said:

You can't scapegoat everything on the KMT, especially when there's no ties.

But there is some truth that you can unify the society by focusing on internal problems, finding an "other" to beat as a scapegoat. Though there isn't anywhere a significant enough issue with disunity that it would be needed to employ tricks.

In my view, China should wait until the US invades first, because China's up arming pace is faster than the US. While the so called "one China policy" humiliates our country much like the Minsk agreements, in the same way, they pragmatically also serve to buy us time to rearm, for the inevitable day where we'll return to the territories US want to annex.

Remember the goal for China is not just to defend it's territorial integrity, but to draw in the American aggressor, bleed him dry, destroy all the cities of his collaborators, and bury the spirit of American revanchism.

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CrazyHorse said:

This is the maneuver that the Chinese vessel made above the cables that likely made the cut, could be explained away by the possibility it was just cleaning the anchor, but doing that right above a cable is unlikely. Could be sabotage.
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CrazyHorse said:

This is the maneuver that the Chinese vessel made above the cables that likely made the cut, could be explained away by the possibility it was just cleaning the anchor, but doing that right above a cable is unlikely. Could be sabotage.
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