Xi Jinping is also a dictator.

I was gaming with friends on Discord when the topic of China passingly came up and one guy started going off about how China and Russia are both socially backward authoritarian dictatorships and how China is communist in name only, oppresses its minority groups and no true socialist should support them.

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Anyway, they’re also pro-NATO

  • TRexBear@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    7 months ago

    Conversely, within the PRC it’s actually non-Han minority status that is gatekept because of the generous subsidies and additional rights (preferential university entry, exemption from family planning policies, etc) which are given to minorities.

    I’ve got a friend who’d like 3/4 Han but legally Zhuang because his parents and grandparents realised it’d be beneficial to keep the minority identity. It’s a pretty goofy system.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      7 months ago

      It’s a bit goofy but it’s the least potentially bad system. The alternatives are either calipers level “ethnography” or keeping registers of people by ethnicity which could fall into the wrong hands if something goes wrong.