Pretty ignorant of China’s politics myself, who to follow for good coverage of what’s going on in China? This latest consolidation of power by Xi, is it more of the same or is this something we haven’t seen before?
Pretty ignorant of China’s politics myself, who to follow for good coverage of what’s going on in China? This latest consolidation of power by Xi, is it more of the same or is this something we haven’t seen before?
It kind of depends on whether or not you speak Mandarin.
One thing to keep in mind is that noone has a clear picture of what is going on in the top levels of the PLA, nor the CCP. And that is intentional, of course.
Unless you have a foundation, avoid the China-Fact-Chasers guys, as they are very one-sided, despite their vast 1st person experience living in China. Lei-talks has a less extreme interpretation, with lots of numbers to back things up - and will also go off on the fantastical topics here and there. Ken Cao puts out a lot of content, as does David Zhang, also very anti-CCP
There is a GProf show that focuses on the Chinese markets which helps balance the economy knowledge, but is weak on politixal content.
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I’m a native mandarin speaker and China’s politics seems so opaque af. All I really know if the real life experiences as like a civillian, and stories my parents told me, and my 8 years of childhood memories there. No clue what the fuck is happening inside Beijing.
I mean I can tell you about my personal experiences of what life is like, but I don’t know about how the political system even fuctions. Even my parents that grew up there and lived there for decades there doesn’t know wtf is going on in the politics. Its blurry, it’s confusing. In my view, it feels kinda like another imperial dynasty, but with CCP as a party at top instead of a traditional monarch.
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Also: Regarding June 4, 1989, I asked my parents about it and they just said “oh there was something happened with university students… civil unrest” that’s all they know. Guangdong Province was where they were at and its far away from Beijing. Now that we’re in the US and told them about the western side of the story, and they’re like: “whatever happened, it was probably necessary, its not like the country could just allow such chaos to happen” so… yeah… they don’t really care. I suspect most people in China don’t pay too close attention either.
My older brother made a huge fuss about it when he learned it in the US, I think it was in school where he learned it, totally shocked him and shattered his worldview. I remember him telling me about it, and telling me to “Google Tiananmen Square Massacre”. Now he’s seems like a conspiracy theorist that distrusts any and all governements, that shock is probably what turned him to Antivax, I mean the shock of his schools in China hiding the other side of the story.
Who do you follow, that you might suggest?
What’s wrong with being anti-CCP? I hate China’s corrupted government almost as much as I hate the USA’s.
Some of the anti-CCP stuff is too heavily algorythmucally captured, and ends up being “China will lose” - which is both wrong, and the wr0ng way to look at the world.
The China-Chaser guys can be the worst for this, as the tend(ed) to phrase the everrything as a US vs China competition - for which the US is destroying the Chinese. Any realist out there knows that the Chinese and US economies are so intertwined that they are both in trouble.
Truthfully, I find that I am anti-CCP, as you can tell bt my suggestions. I try to balance it out, bit I avoid those “US fails as China soars” channels. I tjimk that I tend to follow Taiwanese producers, as they have healthy concern but strong independence. Also I hate bully countries.