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manqiangrexue said:

I don't disagree with any reality but actions speak louder than words. What someone says or believes is only a background to what they are doing. I asked you by what mechanisms Chinese people exert more control over their economy and you don't have an answer. You just gave me a name and told me, this is what the CCP says and believes. I asked for real functional mechanisms. They are what matter

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I didn't go into details because it's a bloody complex topic.

The quick and dirty of it is that the CPC is a 90 million organization drawn from the the entire population of China. Membership is open to the public, you just need to have a good academic record and the motivation to sit through political lectures.

Once part of the CPC, you can climb the ranks to leadership. It's not easy, but the system will allow anyone of any background to succeed if they have the skills and put in the hard work.

In other words, the CPC leadership is composed of the best and brightest from all segments of the population, their it does not represent any particular interest group.

The Chinese leadership also rules through active consultation. New policies are implemented on a regional level and local feedback is taken into consideration before the policy can be implemented nation wide.

The Chinese government runs countless number of surveys to understand the needs of the people in order to formulate their policies.

That is how the Chinese people exert control over their economy.

manqiangrexue said:

Look, here's a better and simpler question: is China in 2021 a more or less equal society than China in 1949?

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manqiangrexue said:

Why 20? Why not all the way back to 1949 at the founding of the PRC?

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Because we're not arguing about the socialist nature of China in 1949!

From 1949 to 1978 China was socialist, bordering on communist. However, that system, even though it made people equal, had other flaws. Therefore Deng decided to transition China into capitalism. In the 1990s and 2000s, China was very capitalist. From 2010 onwards China began transitioning back into Socialism.

manqiangrexue said:

If this is the basis of your argument, then it cannot stand. Simply look at all the nations in the world and see that many have greater social equality in 2021 than 2001. You will argue that they are all socialist?

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No, only that they use socialist policies to achieve that greater social equality.

Again, Socialism and Capitalism is a spectrum. You can improve your social equality with some socialist policies while remaining on the capitalist side of the spectrum.

manqiangrexue said:

You're the one using actions that occur in both capitalist nations and China as evidence that China is socialist. The commonalities between China and the world's successful capitalist economies don't prove that China is capitalist, and I never made that claim, but they sure as heck can't be used as evidence for the opposite

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Whether or not an action is socialist is clearly defined. If the action is due to state regulation with the intent of protecting the interests of the working class, then it is socialist.

A salvo of two, ballistic missile defense-configured SM-6s failed to intercept a medium range ballistic missile target yesterday

HONOLULU — A weapon system test conducted by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii failed to intercept the target Saturday.

According to an agency statement, the objective of the test was to demonstrate the capability of a ballistic missile defense-configured Aegis ship to detect, track, engage and intercept a medium range ballistic missile target with a salvo of two Standard Missile-6 Dual II missiles. However, an intercept was not achieved.

Program officials say they have initiated a review to determine the cause of any problems which may have prevented a successful intercept and will analyze the results.

The test was conducted in cooperation with the U.S. Navy.

Iran-backed Iraqi militias attacked a secret CIA hangar in Iraq this spring [14 April 2021] in a drone strike

BAGHDAD — U.S. military officials in Iraq have grown increasingly alarmed over attacks by Iran-backed militias using drones to evade detection systems around military bases and diplomatic facilities.

In place of rockets, militiamen have turned at times to small, fixed-wing drones that fly too low to be picked up by defensive systems, military officials and diplomats say. An official with the U.S.-led coalition described the evolving drone threat as the military mission’s biggest concern in Iraq.

In April, a drone strike targeted a CIA hangar inside the airport complex in the northern city of Irbil, according to officials familiar with the matter. The drone’s flight was tracked to within 10 miles of the site, but its path was then lost as it moved into a civilian flight path, the coalition official said.


The drone’s remains were partially recovered, and preliminary analysis suggested it was made in Iran, a coalition official said. The attack deeply concerned White House and Pentagon officials because of the covert nature of the facility and the sophistication of the strike.

A similar drone attack in May on the sprawling Ain al-Asad air base raised similar concerns among coalition commanders about how militias are adapting their tactics, according to officials and personnel on base.

“The damage wasn’t huge but the coalition were very upset. They told our commanders that it was a major escalation,” said one Iraqi soldier stationed at Ain al-Asad, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation. Ain al-Asad was previously targeted by Iran with ballistic missiles in January 2020 in response to the U.S. assassination of Iranian commander Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani earlier that month.

Rocket attacks by Iran-backed groups have at times killed American servicemen and Iraqi security personnel and civilians, prompting retaliatory military action from the United States and pushing Washington and Tehran to the brink of outright conflict on Iraqi soil.

Although tensions have cooled since President Biden took office, officials worry that future attacks still risk sparking a new cycle of tit-for-tat violence as Iran-backed groups try to push a rump coalition force out of Iraq altogether.

Iraqi pressure on U.S. and other coalition forces to withdraw surged last year amid outrage here over the Trump administration’s decision to kill Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis using a drone strike.

U.S. troop levels have fallen roughly by half since then, in part because Iraqi security forces are now taking the lead rolling up what remains of the Islamic State. But American numbers have also declined in response to increasing rocket attacks, which left some commanders describing their soldiers as sitting ducks. There are now about 3,000 coalition troops in Iraq, including 2,500 Americans.

voyager1 said:

Lol is the The Diplomat ok?

Has their editor slept and this article managed to pass through the cracks?

Impressive work by this undercover agent who wrote this article

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Yeah, I did not believe my eyes and needed to look a second time at that title. What the fuck happened with the editorial board of the diplomat to greenlight this article.

Damn how do they even fabricate what Chinese people are thinking. It's almost like they treat Chinese as study hamsters.

They even claim the Chinese belief that Western media is lying is a lie. Jeez man. How do you even do this 4 dimensional brainwashing propaganda? Is this Western propagandist just retarded or genuinely a genius level propagandist?

Edit: just commenting on the notion that China is treating Uighurs in a colonial fashion. Uighurs sought refuge in Xinjiang for a thousand years because of inter-sectarian strife. It's the opposite of colonization. Jeez man. Are white people just this natural at lying through their teeth? Or are they just naive and stupid and letting their guilt complex and projection show?

But like so many people, after listening to many, many, many reports, I gradually believed that I also should start paying attention to this matter.

This Chinese guy started believing there were concentration camps in Xinjiang after hearing it online on Western chatrooms/podcasts. Now it makes sense that the Clubhouse platform was banned in China. Repeat a Western fabricated lie enough times and naive people start to believe it. And then 1989 happens again, and Western capitalists flood in to loot treasures.

LesAdieux said:

there's only one poll that matters: the election. the Russian communist Party is still around, they've been in every election since the collapse of the Soviet Union, if the Russians really miss them so much as you claimed, they can vote the communist back to office.

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The Communists are the 2nd most voted party in Russia even today.

Yeltsin was a disaster. The Communists would have won the elections in 1996 if it wasn't for massive political campaign and foreign meddling in their elections. Today, after Putin, people don't see a need to go back to Communism as much.

But still 2nd most voted party.

voyager1 said:

Lol is the The Diplomat ok?

Has their editor slept and this article managed to pass through the cracks?

Impressive work by this undercover agent who wrote this article

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Our @Bltizo publishes there frequently so I don’t think it is under cover agent.

gelgoog said:

The Communists are the 2nd most voted party in Russia even today.

Yeltsin was a disaster. The Communists would have won the elections in 1996 if it wasn't for massive political campaign and foreign meddling in their elections. Today, after Putin, people don't see a need to go back to Communism as much.

But still 2nd most voted party.

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Yes what he said is right. The Russian Communist Party is still significantly popular. In any case Putin's party functions as a sort of replacement for the communist party by working to deny Western imperialism worldwide (Middle East etc) and prevent the lapse into degenerate living standards in the 1990s.

Considering that Putin's party has been rather successful in restoring Russian pride since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fact that the Russian Communist Party is still very much popular speaks to how much Russian Communism wasn't as bad as Western media portray (and no I'm not saying Communist Russia was paradise - life is stressful everywhere).

Court Documents show the existence of a "Government Coordinating Council" through which the US orders tech companies to censor unfavorable posts.