| ▲ | jyscao 21 hours ago | |||||||
>That your point about support for Chinese democracy, could also be applied to Chinese communism Incorrect - my point about Chinese democracy does not apply to the current governing body of China (whether you choose to view and harp on them as communist or not is irrelevant). The Cultural Revolution, which the previous commenter presented as a gotcha, is widely regarded as a dark period and unequivocally a mistake by the majority of Chinese today. But Chinese communism today is both much more and much different than Chinese communism under Mao. OTOH Tiananmen is much more emblematic of "Chinese democracy" than the Cultural Revolution was of Chinese communism. And as already stated, the way Tiananmen was handled is deemed to be correct by the majority of the Chinese populace today. And so once again, this goes back to my original point: peoples of different nations choose their own government, including the form of that government, and not just in the narrow sense of who their next public-facing leader should be during the next several years. The Chinese already does exactly that. | ||||||||
| ▲ | nailer 15 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
No, correct. You said “ideologically driven subset …proportionally a tiny subset of the entire Chinese” which is absolutely true of Mao’s cult. | ||||||||
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