Hell, even their mass produced fake electronics paint a grim picture at the micro level of how that country operates.

Where do most iPhones and other smartphones and laptops come from? What country has more high speed rail trackage than every other country combined? Yes, they will also output cheap crap if companies are willing to sell them.

That’s also hysterical that you are removed about western propaganda, when China is the undisputed king of bulk fake news.

Where to start…

A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink.

"I have to admit, I'm always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up," the CIA agent says.

"Thank you," the KGB says. "We do our best but truly, it's nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them."

The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. "Thank you friend, but you must be confused... There's no propaganda in America."

• Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
• Propaganda model
• Edward Bernays
• Walter Lippmann
• Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism

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Below is a copypasta of my own comment last week, in response to someone’s weapons-grade gish gallop: “I’m pretty sure the Tiananmen square massacre was a bigger crime. Not to mention their genocide of the Uighur people, their oppression of Hong Kong, their attempts to steal Taiwan’s sovereignty.”

Tiananmen square massacre

• The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.
• 1989 Tian'anmen Square riots
• A Note on the Tiananmen Protests
• Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
• ‘Tank Man’: the full footage. Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989

their genocide of the Uighur people

This bullshit never ends, does it?

• https://lemmy.ml/comment/8588979
• A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China

their oppression of Hong Kong

Hong Kong was the product of the UK’s century of Chinese oppression, and their 99 year lease on oppressing Hong Kong ended in 1997.

steal Taiwan’s sovereignty

Taiwan is only considered sovereign by eleven countries, most of which are micronations like the Holy See, the Marshall Islands, and Tuvalu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan

was a bigger crime

• List of Atrocities committed by US authorities
• Are We The Baddies?

Imagine complaining about the build quality of Chinese apartments when your reference point is... American ones.

No sheathing, drywall on inner walls, barely any insulation, plywood only for the minimum necessary to guarantee wind stability... Pot calling the kettle black, really. You can literally run through walls of new builds in the US.

China builds housing for the market. While quality might be high in tier 1, 2 and even tier 3 cities, that's not going to be as true for tier 4 cities that are designed to absorb the massive rural-to-urban migration of poor farmers... The market doesn't demand it. You're kidding yourself if you think even the shoddiest constructed apartment isn't better than the average rural home which not only lacks building codes but lacks modern materials.

Can confirm, im a badly built house in China ghost town. My bad concrete hands crumbled after writing this