Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "The Greater Bay Area: Xi Jinping's great dream? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1. Japan, Korea, and Táiwān also democratized and unlocked their cultural potential: hence anime, k-pop, and bubble tea. The CPC spends a lot of its resources (with a budget probably even greater than the PLA's) stopping this in the name of "stability", with censorship efforts deliberately extending into other countries. Even Indonesia and the Philippines (#1 and #3 economies in ASEAN) removed their dictators through popular movement, and have since elected their leadership through the collective voice of all their citizens. But the even more developed Mainland China doubled down on authoritarianism, which is coming back to haunt them as aging, debt, and pollution stall the economy on which the Party's unchallenged rule rides on. Hence the Wolf Warrior Diplomacy and new cross-Strait crisis they're banking on to keep up the Party's appeal back at home at the cost of foreign attraction... and thus all the "anti-China" videos we're seeing a lot of these days from pretty much everywhere that lacks corporate sponsorship.
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  2. Problem is practically nobody really trusts a Chinese stock market, and those who do aren't allowed to buy an considerably influential amount of shares. That's why the Chinese people basically threw all their investment efforts at the "safety" of real estate.
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