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China Planted 78 Billion New Trees, and Seriously Messed Up Its Water Cycle (www.popularmechanics.com)

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[-] x00z@lemmy.world 75 points 6 days ago

What do you mean?

Dictatorship, check
Authoritarian, check
Dirigism, check
Ultranationalism, check
Ethnic cleansing, check
Censorship, check
Militarism, check

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 30 points 6 days ago

Fascism is more complicated than that, and while China is nationalistic it's not running on the kind of ultranationalism that, say, Nazi Germany had. Modern China doesn't meet any credible definition of fascism.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

I don't understand why you'd post that link. Almost all of those 14 points are true for China.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 18 points 6 days ago

Um... hell no? There's no way more than 3-4/14 are true unless you're working with some kind of alternate universe China. Nothing about China is traditionalist, anti-modernist or anti-intellectualist, for one; they're probably the most technocratic nation on Earth.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Lmao. If you only read what they want you to read, sure.

[-] stumu415@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 days ago

You're describing the US to a tee. China is a unlike what you think. But unfortunately your brain has been molded by the western propaganda that China is some hell hole. Come and see for yourself. Maybe, just maybe you'll get an incling of how delusional you are.