I like/appreciate your journalism, but I’m curious what your thoughts are in light of the recent executions of unspecified number of Canadian citizens in China. Why does it make sense to invite Chinese companies to set up factories in Canada?
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How can we reconcile moving away from companies we see increasingly tied to the destruction of democratic and human rights (tesla), but don’t hold Chinese companies to the same standard?
China is a very functional central democracy. It's a very different system than the representative or parliamentary democracies we're used to, but it's still very much a democracy.
Democratic Centralism is a sort of many perspectives under 1 umbrella sort of system. There's 1 party, but that 1 party is made up of elected representatives from multiple different cultures and areas, making 1 party with wide and various perspectives and preventing party politicking.
Democratic Centralism was the system in the Soviet Union but it is not in and of itself communism. Communism is a much broader structural and economic change from basically anything we currently have. It's also not a spin, it's literally what the system is called.
"What the leadership seeks is for the world to stop assessing China based on its progress toward a liberal democracy, but instead to acknowledge that China also has a legitimate system that aims to improve the well-being of people." That's the line it ends on.
Its actual flaw is that since there's really no party, it can get locked up in burocracy as the party debates course among itself, and frequently votes need a 60% majority to go through.
I guess it’s too bad that it’s not a real democracy that can have another party replace it. Because it’s a communist state.
Also, there’s a party and it’s called the CCP. Don’t pretend it’s a no-party state.
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Also, there’s a party and it’s called the CCP. Don’t pretend it’s a no-party state.