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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • It’s not a public sector if the public has no agency. Simply being owned by the government does not make something public, because governments can themselves be not “of the people” by virtue of being captured by specific individuals or groups. You have not provided any sort of evidence that the public in China can influence the publicly owned businesses.

    You’re drinking a lot of koolaid here by trying to point out Chinese government approval ratings, the government in China literally controls all education and media in a very heavy way, as well as banning much of the internet, with the goal of preventing it’s citizens from learning about specific ideas and events that would reflect poorly on them. Pretending that people are rational and independent when they do not have the education or information to be such is the worst kind of argument, it shows a clear bias on your part. You wouldn’t say a child approving/disapproving of their parent is evidence of that person’s ability to parent, the child simply doesn’t know anything else or have enough education/information to make an objective opinion.

    This is not western propaganda, it’s objective fact that China itself talks about on the world stage. Everything from the great firewall to social credit scores that restrict one’s ability within the country.



  • How does the public have control of the companies owned or controlled by the Chinese government?

    If the public wanted the government to do something different than they had already decided, there is zero ability to enact that change.

    The Chinese government exists in a single party system that approves all candidates before they are even allowed to run in their elections, and important positions (within the party itself) are only handed out to loyalists.

    I studied China at a University level as part of my business degree, including multiple trips to said country to visit businesses, universities, and politicians.



































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