Take a look at this comment chain in the same thread, where I address the "authoritarian" claim. (I've never linked to a comment on here before so hopefully this works)
So sure, that's fair especially if the people see their government as democratic.
I guess the authoritarian thing stems from viewing China's government in isolation, while being used to American systems that are inherently authoritarian.
So things that I'd like to point to as authoritarian for China (can't vote out party officials, union powers reduced or next to nothing, political dissent is treated as criminal, surveillance state, labor camps, censorship and misinformation, police brutality, corporations and state economic goals are given preference over the public spending, etc) are all true for the US also.
That being said, I still hold that China is authoritarian even if it stacks up well against other authoritarian states.
But you're talking to an ancom, so I view most sorts of centralized bureaucracies with pyramidal hierarchies and monopolies on violence as inherently authoritarian.
Take a look at this comment chain in the same thread, where I address the "authoritarian" claim. (I've never linked to a comment on here before so hopefully this works)
So sure, that's fair especially if the people see their government as democratic.
I guess the authoritarian thing stems from viewing China's government in isolation, while being used to American systems that are inherently authoritarian.
So things that I'd like to point to as authoritarian for China (can't vote out party officials, union powers reduced or next to nothing, political dissent is treated as criminal, surveillance state, labor camps, censorship and misinformation, police brutality, corporations and state economic goals are given preference over the public spending, etc) are all true for the US also.
That being said, I still hold that China is authoritarian even if it stacks up well against other authoritarian states.
But you're talking to an ancom, so I view most sorts of centralized bureaucracies with pyramidal hierarchies and monopolies on violence as inherently authoritarian.