By Which definition you're referring to? Now ByteDance is desperately trying to find a way out of this. It shows CCP is not intended to save their ass like how they try to save Huawei. Because it's just a company without government background.
> They clearly believe that their method of governance is superior to Democracy and they have ambitions to become the world's superpower.
It is the Western World who believe Democracy is superior to any others without contexts.
Democracy is good of course on paper, however, it's usually used as a cause to target flawed developing countries and leaving them to burn in hell. The West got rid of Gaddafi, leaving Lybia people suffering even more. Assad was facing a similar situation, I believe if he died the situation in Syria would be much worse. They just want to judge, and don't give a shit about that they cause much more damages.
A quote from Lee Quan Yew from the interview with Charlie Rose[0]: "I think to make sure that they feel they're accepted at the top table." China was THE superpower for a very, very long time (For example, in terms of GDP, and here's a video on the historical comparison [1]). The situation is more like, China has its own system and it's not possible to largely change or its people would greatly suffer (as always according to Chinese history, or just like Eastern Europe), and they're not quite accepted because the system is radically different.
> They still have portraits proudly displayed of Mao Zedong FFS.
State media has already started to criticize Mao for years. They didn't do it at scale because it would piss-off most middle-aged or old people, and it's pointless. It's very likely they will do this after these generations have died. It's basically like when people talk about Washington they rarely talk about how he treats slaves.
You know Apartheid South Africa freed Nelson Mandela?
Indoctrination North Korea would kill for, never mind China: George Washington "freed slaves".
Aside from owning (more than 300) human slaves, George Washington "yanked" the teeth from their heads for his own personal use[0], and he doesn't get enough credit for not doing that any more after he died either.
You are thinking of this from the point of view of a morally sound individual in the modern world.
It is always difficult to simply destroy your wealth after death. It would have been easier for him to Will all his slaves to whomever inherited the rest of his estate, or to simply sell them all before his death and give that money to causes he believed in (like setting up a university under his name).
No one at his time was going to criticize him. Heck other slave owners probably considered him too tender hearted for doing, what was in their minds the equivalent of releasing your prize horses into the wild to “run free” after you died.
Unfortunately, no. I was just commenting on CCP owning Tiktok.
Which means if it is still operated by ByteDance they will continuously remove contents they don't like.
But to be frank, there are much more companies are vulnerable to similar issues like Blizzard. Although they're not obligated to ban accounts that against China's interest, they do it anyway because they don't want to lose market.
By Which definition you're referring to? Now ByteDance is desperately trying to find a way out of this. It shows CCP is not intended to save their ass like how they try to save Huawei. Because it's just a company without government background.
> They clearly believe that their method of governance is superior to Democracy and they have ambitions to become the world's superpower.
It is the Western World who believe Democracy is superior to any others without contexts.
Democracy is good of course on paper, however, it's usually used as a cause to target flawed developing countries and leaving them to burn in hell. The West got rid of Gaddafi, leaving Lybia people suffering even more. Assad was facing a similar situation, I believe if he died the situation in Syria would be much worse. They just want to judge, and don't give a shit about that they cause much more damages.
A quote from Lee Quan Yew from the interview with Charlie Rose[0]: "I think to make sure that they feel they're accepted at the top table." China was THE superpower for a very, very long time (For example, in terms of GDP, and here's a video on the historical comparison [1]). The situation is more like, China has its own system and it's not possible to largely change or its people would greatly suffer (as always according to Chinese history, or just like Eastern Europe), and they're not quite accepted because the system is radically different.
> They still have portraits proudly displayed of Mao Zedong FFS.
State media has already started to criticize Mao for years. They didn't do it at scale because it would piss-off most middle-aged or old people, and it's pointless. It's very likely they will do this after these generations have died. It's basically like when people talk about Washington they rarely talk about how he treats slaves.
[0] https://youtu.be/A8GwmsLXOx8?t=597 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-2nqd6-ZXg