After years of brutal repression, China's Communist Party tries to turn Xinjiang into a tourism hotspot - eviltoast
China gave the ABC a tightly controlled tour of Xinjiang. Here's what we saw
www.abc.net.au
For several years, the region of Xinjiang has been shut off from most of the world's media. The ABC got to go inside, but all was not as it seemed.
  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That’s the general sentiment I’ve seen a lot. China was really going places and dramatically improving until Xi turned up

    • Anonbal185@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s the system that is the issue. Without checks and balances if it wasn’t Xi it would just be another guy with a different name.

      I believe Deng Xiaoping had two successors lined up last being Hi Jintao, so a dictator was always going to seize power when xi came on.

      So you can replace until Xi showed up with until anyone showed up that term.