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"Senior party members previously told Reuters they had been approached by Chinese officials or middlemen and told to disband or face severe consequences, including possible arrest."

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[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just a reminder of what China wants to turn Taiwan into.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

... and a reminder of what Putin has already turned Russia into

... and a reminder of what Trump is speedrunning towards

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think the Republicans really like having the Democrats as their opposition party. Or at least they would if they put even the slightest thought into it, which most of them probably don't.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They're too thin-skinned to see how that could work to their benefit, even toothless disapproval hurts their snowflake fee-fees too much

[–] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But see they were able to “vote” which clearly means China is totally democratic and pro-democracy. Not totalitarian at all

/s

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No it's really weird, they associate the word "democracy" with western capitalism, but they also insist that the average worker has a voice and votes on things and influences national decisionmaking... which is what a democracy is... except also with some weird one-party system where that party itself is effectively just a rich and powerful people's club.

But no see they occasionally execute rich people (only those that aren’t major government officials or relatives of those officials) so it’s clearly not oligarchic at all either nope not one bit

[–] azureskypirate@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If democracy is bad, why do dictatorships feign it?

[–] stellargmite@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Indeed. Authoritarians keep multiple sets of books. Reactionarianism might be near the top of the pile, with no particular ideology , let alone morality, being at the foundation. whatever is required in the moment to maintain power. Also worth pointing out that HK were promised universal suffrage by the CCP, under internationally ratified agreement. I realise this ship has sailed, but we should not forget what Hong Kongers have had stolen from them. And how we all lose because of it, especially those from the ‘main’land