Honestly, I am quite surprised how low tankies are willing to go to defend China. As a Chinese, it is very disheartening to me that people have never experienced or seen the suffering of living under an authoritarian government, are more willing to blindly defend it, than having a intellectual discussion.

Compare the prison population of the US to China’s lol.

likely means the wage that reaches your bank account, i.e. wage - 401k, insurance etc

Well ain’t that a shit definition then

Chinese people will need 30 years of disposible income to purchase an apartment; compare to 3 in the U.S.

Who can afford a condo with 3 years disposable income in the US? My spouse and I make above average money in a below average cost city and we couldn’t afford a condo here.

Please read this article from a mainstream Jewish holocaust historian, equating the USSR with nazis is problematic.

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory

so even though it’s fallen into fascist oligarchy,

You know any left wing project after being overthrown by the US would also end up a fascist oligarchy right? As was the case with the illegal and undemocratic dissolution of the Soviet Union brought about by the US.

Even the most fascist redfash

A mainstream Jewish holocaust scholar on equating fascism and communism and why it is bad

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory

I hate it when threads like this make me have to repeatedly post the mainstream Jewish holocaust historian “stop conflating fascism and communism” article

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory