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And something nasty to corrupt officials and business people

This is just you fantasizing about magical Asians saving you.

I suppose it’s the difference between knowing you live in a society which has extensive controls, but you know exactly where the boundaries are, as opposed to living in a similar society where you are controlled but it is more subtle

One evil isn't better than an other one.

Yellow people are in fact people, and it would in fact therefore be bad if they were to die in a war in the nominal interest of Westerners. We aren’t automata for you to use, I’m afraid.

Nope. Collapsing demographics thanks to the one child policy, empty cities, people kicked out of their homes with little compensation to build infrastructure and of course, Genocide. #Uyghurs

And the counter point to this facile argument that you wouldn’t have freedom of expression to criticise the government, and China has billionaires too.

None of that is true. Have you seen the innumerable half finished apartment blocks being demolished because the company abandoned them? The ones that get built are tofu dreg, worthless.

incredibly stupid take, do you actually know people who live in China

The Nazis had great trains. They also put my grandpa in Auschwitz.

Imagine you thinking you’re not gonna end up like a Uighur. Stop posting dumber than dirt takes about a nation that is just one giant human rights violation

But what about the "free" elections controlled by billionaires, but what about the "free" press controlled by billionaires, ask the neoliberals. Everyone rich enough gets a say.

You're gonna need to pick a less national-security-threat pfp if that happens

Apart from all the obvious reasons why this is profoundly stupid, the minimum wage in China is $10 per day and it has the 2nd most billionaires in the world. But then again you would have to treat China as a real place and not somewhere you made up in your head

I think China has plenty billionaires of its own.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... Now things are going to work.

You'd be a colony. Public and private assets would be transferred to ethnic Han billionaires. Racism would get markedly worse, homophobia and crackdowns on LGBT culture would become far more overt than anything Trump can even manage. Millions dead and the country in ruins from the war too.

I work with a few Hong Kong British passport escapees it’s not great for regular people.

No democracy, thousands locked up for religious and other reasons. No free speech at all?

Like they'd let that trickle down to the conquered. thats not how any of this works. Income inequality and workers rights are horrible in China its still not a democracy or anywhere close. Have some self respect

Dude this is really brain dead. The railway part is right, otherwise. . .

You do remember what the word "invasion" means, right? It does not mean one government quietly shuffles off while the other starts pouring public investment into the country. What you want is to just... live in China. Is that not edgy enough for you? You want to make sure Americans die too?

While I support China in its sovereignty and great technological achievements, as well as lifting millions out of horrible living conditions and poverty, it is an extremely flawed government. Yes, much of the capitalists are under strict guidelines, and those that exploit the system due endure -

And thousands of executions every year.

So like... you do realize just how horrible things must have gotten for either country to be straight up invading the other, right? This isn't even getting into the nightmare of a seaborne invasion across the largest ocean on the planet. Both countries also have nuclear stockpiles, so uh...