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Anything the PRC / CCP does, I immediately assume we should do the opposite. Now, if the real China, ROC/Taiwan says it, I'll take it under advisement.
Stupid
Building huge quantities of high-speed rail, dramatically ramping up electrification and solar production, carrying out massive poverty eradication campaigns to lessen the rural/urban development divide, delivering over 90% government approval rates consistently? These are what you think we should do the opposite of?
Further, the idea that the nationalists that fled the mainland and slaughtered domestic resistance in Taiwan in the White Terror is the "real China," is like saying the Statesian Confederacy is the "real USA." This is utter dogmatism.
That's... a bad idea. The CCP is evil, but one thing they're not short on is good ideas.
Their level of evil tells me that any idea they could possibly have is evil. I don't want their "good" ideas, because every idea they have is dedicated to preserving their power. Evil can neither comprehend nor create good.
Why is the CPC evil? Wanting to retain socialism and prevent the restoration of capitalism is a good thing, but you're framing the CPC as if its a supernatural force for some metaphysical "evil." Reality doesn't work in terms of "good" vs. "evil" like a Marvel movie.
If taken out of context this could mean any government that uses authoritarianism as a means of control.
So that means no good ideas have ever been implemented by Western colonial/neocolonial powers then, right?