The Economist has been predicting economic crises in China for decades, none of them have arrived - eviltoast
  • KiG V2@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I always tell myself people will wake up when they realize how much better their lives get while ours get worse and worse, but even when I talk about their poverty alleviation, growing middle class, green energy initiatives etc. people just kind of blank and don’t say much. The truth is already so far distant from what people are taught it’s like they think I’m lying or being lied to.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, that’s kind of the problem. They’ve been trained to think that China just “lies” about everything, and only the clever western media sees through those lies (even when those “lies” are information independently collected by the UN or other organisations.)

      They want China to be the bad guy, so China can’t ever do anything positive. It’s always a bad guy, doing bad guy things.