[jazz9k]

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[AuthAuth]

Its calling for the US to stop copying the bad parts of Chinese Policy and go back to matching the good parts.

[jmcgough]

The US government is now more authoritarian than the Chinese government. Half of what you've been told is propaganda, like the "social credit score" story.

In China they put people to death for corruption, here they just get a well-paid lobbying job.

[Terr_]

Speaking as an American with some personal history in Hong Kong (on both sides of the PRC handover), saying "is now" is not accurate.

That said, I would agree to "may soon become if we don't stop it." We aren't there yet, but we're on a bad trajectory.

[s3r3nity]

> The US government is now more authoritarian than the Chinese government

Nah we’re not playing this game.

Try asking the CCP officials in person about Uyghur internment camps, or Tiananmen Square, and see if your family isn’t all arrested.

Ask Olympian Alysa Liu how the CCP targeted her father to try to coerce her to skate for China.

[voxl]

Don't be an ass. Someone can be an ethically bad person and still do things that you can learn and benefit from. Moreover, saying China is doing good at research does not somehow mean you support their government.

[direwolf20]

Did you miss Trump's plan to censor the internet except for party approved propaganda? It was on the front page here a few days ago. The propaganda site will be called freedom.gov.

[daveguy]

I mean, they're both authoritarian right now. But at least one of them doesn't think science is woke. So....

[juniperus]

if you actually think China would even entertain the idea of funding some of the scientific research conducted in the US over the past few decades, you have a fantasy view of what is going on outside the US. That political controversy wouldn't even arise because it's such a nonstarter that it could never even become a controversy.