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Grace OP wrote

If they're trying to 'trick' western countries, it's obviously not fucking working. I trust Chinese media because they do not try to sell stuff to us. Other media sells more clicks, but Chinese media just wants information. Their foreign diplomacy can be questionable sometimes, but generally they have nothing to gain by telling me how cool their new trains are.

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GlangSnorrisson wrote

To be clear, I don’t mean they’re trying to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes. I’m saying they do what any country does: do your best not to look shittier than the others.

As for infrastructure I have 0 doubts that it’s a booming business: China has an incredibly quickly growing middle class.

This brings me to my next point, and I’m sorry but there’s no way for me not to be blunt here: how are they not just as capitalist as the west? Billionaires, middle class, expansionism into Africa, landlords?

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Grace OP wrote

They have market socialism. Socialism with Chinese characterstics. The material conditions of China were unique, and Deng saved China from infinite sanctions, and let China grow.

Billionaires exist, but they are commonly executed and jailed for their crimes against the laborers. Out of the entire Chinese communist diet (or congress or whatever it's called) there is about 4000 people. Only 24 of them are capitalists.

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