UserWiki talk:Nordicpresident


 * You edit so much, you never interact with people here. Why? You should get a userpage.

Nordicpresident-I'm addicted to this site. I love to share knowledge with people. I would interact more with people if it wasn't for that the comment section is gone. I hate interacting like this. The reason why I haven't gotten a user wiki is that my ideology changes all the time. I'm something of amalgam between a socdem/dengist/third way liberal

Just out of curiosity, what kind of Dengist are you? Huist or Xiist?

I don't know. I'm of Chinese descent and I visited China (Beijing) every year before the pandemic but never paid attention to CPC politics. I've read a lot about China recently (a lot of Falun Gong media: Epoch Times, SinoInsider, China Uncensored, etc) and been trying to puzzle its modern history. I read a biography on Jiang Zemin at Epoch Times called "Urbibled Evil: The Corrupt Regime of Jiang Zemin", (you must register an account to read it now) which is super detailed. It says that Jiang was a Japanese collaborator in his youth and made up his entire backstory to survive.

Jiang Zemin used the persecution of Falun Gong to take control of the media, military, and the police making him one of the most powerful people in China and the world. He opened up the market in 1997 and gave foreign corporations unrestricted power in China allowing them to exploit the Chinese people as they pleased. Hence why you don't hear much Jiang in media in contrast to Xi. Jiang used the collective leadership of the CPC to surround the administration of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao with his own party loyalists allowing him to control Chinese politics long after he stepped down as General Secretary. While Hu and Wen wanted a greater redistribution of wealth and more accountable governance Jiang and his loyalists actively sabotaged any such attempts. I believe Wen Jiabao (who supported Tiananmen protests) was elected Premier to give the CPC a more "human face" and appease the west. The Hu-Wen administration's handling of the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake was abyssmal, indeed. When Xi came to power in 2012 he implemented the anti-corruption campaign to remove Jiang's influence from the Party. The Epoch Times biography on Jiang ends on a weirdly optimistic note, where they praise Xi's anti-corruption efforts and protection of Chinese culture. This suggests that most Western media reporting on Xi is greatly exaggerated and has more to do with increasing state control over the Chinese market than actual concern for human rights.

I know most things about what you said. Though I think I have more knowledge on Tridemism than Dengism. Xi did revise Chinese history books, ban western media and products, impose martial laws on Xinjiang and Tibet, and terminate Deng's term limits though. But I don't agree with the notion that China is a 1984 state like what western media is trying to portray. China is a totalitarian/highly authoritarian country, but the living standards in the country are now good enough for people to get by, unlike Maoist China. Its absolute poverty rate is lower than the US's iirc.