This is from January, have there been any updates in the past 7 months?
There is exceptionally little material info in this article and so very much speculation
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There is exceptionally little material info in this article and so very much speculation
Americans don't like the idea that maybe China is actually rocketing past them technologically and infrastructurally, so news doesn't really report on it much.
I personally have nothing against the Chinese and respect them being oddly far more interested in the wellbeing of their own people than remotely anything in any western country, but it sure is odd behavior by people who consider China a threat.
“China’s an enemy” … “let’s bring in 600,000 Chinese every single year to learn from us and take the knowledge back to China and the ones that remain will be embedded spies like the people of other foreign nations who have burrowed into America and its power structure”.
[0]: https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-targets/china-tran...
[1]: https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/JIPA/Display/Article/358765...
[2]: https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/peng-shuai-china-disappeared-ho...
I wouldnt take my family to a trip to US these days for example, no such issue with China. One sample aspect, a very practical one too, but there are many others.
US Incarceration Rate: 541 per 100k
Chinese Incarceration Rate: 119 per 100k
It leads to the amusing outcome that the US has more people incarcerated than China, in spite of China having 4x the population of the US. It's entirely possible to criticize the Chinese system without resorting to disinformation, but as you allude to, those critiques probably hit a bit too close to home. It's akin to how the Wiki page on authoritarianism [1] has been radically shifted over time to the point that "modern" definition and the definition of 20 years ago [2] are completely different. Yet the old definition is the one that literally everybody uses, but it, again, hits a bit too close to home.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Authoritarianism&...
The “amusing outcome” is actually that when you look at the crime rates of East Asians, you see similar rates as in east Asia, and if you look at all other ethnicities’ crime rates anywhere they are, you also see similar patterns, not matter how removed they are from each other.
These are not complicated or challenging things, the problem is just that a new kind of delusional religion has been constructed around believing nonsense as a base assumption.
I suppose America does have a lot of undeveloped land and national parks that are left wild, but I don't see how that could ...
> ... the real number of Africans incarcerated in the USA would be even far higher
... Ohhhh you are just racist. Got it. Take that somewhere else.