Young Western social media users are embracing a “very Chinese time” of their lives, and China’s government is keen to use this moment to boost the country’s cultural influence worldwide.
To achieve that, the US would need a government that controls mass media, kills people just for protesting, disappearing enemies of the government in remote prison camps with no oversight or accountability, have mass surveillance everywhere, make books illegal, demonstrably suppress all ethnic minorities, threaten religious leaders for speaking ill of the government…
All run by a hardline government that has a strongman leader that people respect and a cabinet full of loyalists with competence in the task they’re assigned.
Once the US achieves that last bit, THEN they’ll be as authoritarian as China.
US is not by any means as authoritarian as China.
To achieve that, the US would need a government that controls mass media, kills people just for protesting, disappearing enemies of the government in remote prison camps with no oversight or accountability, have mass surveillance everywhere, make books illegal, demonstrably suppress all ethnic minorities, threaten religious leaders for speaking ill of the government…
All run by a hardline government that has a strongman leader that people respect and a cabinet full of loyalists with competence in the task they’re assigned.
Once the US achieves that last bit, THEN they’ll be as authoritarian as China.
🤔 grok is this sarcasm?