The word China is in fact banned in China

Thank you for putting together a serious and well thought out response. I hope they read the linked post in full.

Smh the hexbearianistites can’t catch a break

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The Maoist uprising against the landowners was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, resulting in an almost completely equal redistribution of land among peasants

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There is a specter haunting lemmy

Lmao what? They are telling their users to be nice to others and not break the rules of other instances

Maybe one day it will be possible

Hexbear won’t be federating at first, and will then likely only federate with lemmygrad to start. The registration is open so you can just sign up. The most active comms are c/chapotraphouse which is the defacto general purpose comm (not related to the podcast lol), c/the_dunk_tank, and c/news. The c/news weekly megathreads are great btw.

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We’ll have to see what happens over the next few years, he may not even be in consideration for the position. He was an odd pick imo. I thought Xi would leave Li Keqiang there, but from what I understand they did not get along. The west liked Li Keqiang too.

I think Li Qiang was likely chosen to signal to the west that China would welcome their investments much to the chagrin of the US who has been trying to pry it away via sanctions and the continuing trade war. In that sense he was a good choice for his current position. The more the west spends in developing China the better for them.

I doubt he’s China’s gorby though, as the situation in the two countries are very different.

The per capita electricity consumption will likely increase in the coming years, but compared to developed nations it is still low. Developing storage tech will be important for everyone as wind and solar are so weather dependent. Hope they figure it out, China’s development of solar production has already been a boon to cheaper solar panels in the world.

I agree, and hope that doesn’t happen. There must be some younger party members who are both committed and ready to move up, and would like to learn more about who they may be.

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His proximity to capitalists doesn’t inspire much confidence in me, and Shanghai is a liberal mecca.

I’m not the most knowledgeable about Li (or the inner workings of the CPC), so I could be quite off base as to what he would do. The western press was pretty happy as they see him as someone to give capital more free reign (even if they then try to deride him as a Xi “loyalist”). Though I think they said the same about Xi at some point lol.

Iirc there was some hukou reform under Li in Shanghai, which is good and I hope to see it go further.

Regardless, I think Xi has done enough to set China on a specific path that will likely not be altered beyond recognition depending on who is next, nor would a less influential leader necessarily lead to a power vacuum. It will be interesting to see what happens next though.

Yeah I agree about Wang, he’s been high up in government so long but doesn’t face the public in any way that I’ve seen. He’s also just a few years younger than Xi. I was hoping there would be some younger members appointed in the last politburo to give a gesture as to where things may be heading once this generation is out.

I’m curious to see how he does, but tbh I hope it isn’t Li Qiang.