What Does Democracy Mean To The Chinese? [Street Interview] | ASIAN BOSS
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Length: 9min 28sec (568 seconds)
Published: Wed Jan 16 2019
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"China’s media censorship is strict for a reason, I sometimes watch YouTube videos"
That's fucking gold, I like that guy
It is simple. While CCP set up the GFW to censor the information, they also push IPV6 forward in IT domain. If you know what IPV6 is, you would understand that contradicts to the existence of GFW. So why?
As a matter of fact, the low class and uneducated population of China, which is huge, will potentially become the targets of western propaganda (i.e. the "pro-democracy" protestors in HK) and it would definitely become a threat to the regime. GFW is for this portion of the population. From the western perspective, this is indeed a violation of individual freedom, but it works. The majority of these civilians do not care about the information outside anyway since they have more priorities to worry about (i.e. make living and move to the cities).
For those who have sufficient education background and live in the first or the second-tier cities, having a VPN installed on their phones is something common. CCP had never arrested a single individual for using VPN and only arrested one distributor after the so-called "Internet Control Law" released in 2018 as an example. As an example, every June, during the sensitive time of Tiananmen Incident, CCP stops all the popular VPN services and forbidden foreign IPs to comment or share posts on Weibo. But as always, the services will be back to normal a week after. CCP knows exactly who is using VPNs, which VPN services are in the market, and they just don't care much.
The logical reasoning behind this strategy is interesting if you look closely to the pattern. If you know how the software works, you know that GFW will be gone one day. CCP knows it is inevitable, so instead of the old fashioned "shut everything down" strategy, letting the people digest the information from the outside with some control would actually make sure the civilians not to go rogue.
For Chinese citizens of 2019, once have the knowledge and capacity to think freely, the pro and con of censorship would be discussed. When the pros of censorship are something the west being proud of, yet the gunshots, doxing and trolling, hate speech caused by uncontrolled information is commonly ignored or rejected by the public. The Chinese have seen how it goes in the US. The cons of censorship are well-known, so I don't bring it up here. The bigger question beyond "right and wrong" here is if there is a guideline of censorship or it is just a tool that the government could use at any time to anyone. This is something the Chinese citizens need to figure out in the next few years.
Western democracies are bound to fail due to every characteristic they're proud of.
*Multi-party politics and popular voting makes sure that in order to get elected, parties have to emphasis difference instead of cooperation with other parties, and stir up ignorant, unprofessional populism and hostilities in the voter base.
*Separation of powers and importance of campaign funding (caused by a need to use populism) ensures that capital, instead of the government, is the absolute power that becomes absolutely corrupt. And not all absolutely corrupt absolute powers are equal. Governments can still put the needs of the people first, while capital is obligated to selfishly pursue profit.
*Monotheistic cultural basis convinces people of the absolute superiority and universality of their model. This leads to resistance of improvement internally and attempts to sabotage external experiments to the violent violation of sovereignty and human rights.
The fact that some democracies are successful is due to accumulation of wealth and influence before such characteristics of democracy are implemented, which allows successful Western democracies to withstand the drain of these characteristics.
The fact that "democracy is the worst model except that others have been tried and failed" is due to sabotaging from Western democracies.
China is experimenting with democracy with all the opposite characteristics. Fortunately it seems powerful enough to resist Western sabotage so far.
The more I see how irrational, ignorant and violent the average person is around the world ... the more I am convinced that election-based democracy is pointless and dangerous 😏
I don’t think they know what democracy is but they seem to equate it to “freedom” for some reason. Are Chinese people actually educated in political theories?