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    They share a common enemy, democracy.

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        How high are you right meow?

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          Do you not know what the structure of China is?

          Serious question, do you? When I criticise the US I do so from a position of knowing how power works between its three branches of government, how the senate works, how local governance works, how elections work, how the courts work. Do you know how China conducts any of these? Do you know how they govern 1.6billion people?

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            It’s a one-party state with all candidates chosen by the party.

            It may wear the skin of a democracy, but it is not a democracy.

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                Let’s topple all fake democracies. China’s red-blue man owns US’s red and blue men anyway.

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              According to their respective peoples, China has an infinitely more vibrant and responsive democracy than the United States.

              I’d hate to think you’d be so blind to the irony of saying such a thing as ‘wearing the skin of democracy’ if you were living in the west.

              Either way I’d be ashamed to act like you have and speak despite having such ignorance about the Chinese system of democracy.

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      Meh, our democracy isn’t even that threatening to China (Taiwan’s is, it showcases a viable alternative to the CPC), they just had to leave us to our “contradictions”, they’d keep booming and we’d just keep buying their stuff while we eat each other alive, if China is doing this, they gotta be really desperate to turn Europe fascist again.

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        (Taiwan’s is, it showcases a viable alternative to the CPC)

        Throwing chairs at each other in the Legislative Yuan over who gets to be America’s most loyal running dog isn’t seen by anyone thing China as a viable alternative to governance.

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          It’s ok, Hu Jintao really didn’t mind being dragged off the stage like an idiot in a country where face is everything. China does settle fistfights in private, which does set a good example for the populace, ngl.

          PS: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/面子:

          面子是人際關係中的一种现象,在東方等级观念较强的社会(如中國等)特別受到重視。具体定义不明,基本上意味给社会中每个人的尊重[1][2]。如果不给人面子,即是拆穿別人的面具,可能会引起报复。如果有面子,一般会被认为是社会地位较高,更受人尊敬,然而面子不够大,可能是因为在社会、经济等方面地位低下。“面子”是“社会脸面”,代表着个人在人生历程中由成就和夸耀所获得的名声以及被社会重视的声誉[3]。「厚顏」俗稱「不要臉」。

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            treated like an idiot in a country where face is everything.

            哇,你真懂中国文化。只有我们中国人不喜欢丢脸,不像那些外国政治者。他们热爱在大家面前受困窘。