alt Hacker NewsHe is the founder of modern China, who ended the century of humiliation and restored the country's independence. Yes, it was messy. But what the west was doing against the country and the previous situation was not better.
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sepositus • 05/03/2025
> Yes, it was messy, but hardly bloodier than what the West was doing in the country at the time.
Can you expand on this?
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Hammershaft • 05/03/2025
'Yes, it was messy.'
That's one way to describe Mao implementing such incompetent and exploitative policies that it leads to over 40 million Chinese people dying in famines and purges.
oh no. Pooh, you ate all the propaganda instead of the honey.
> The systemic media control in authoritarian regimes is often inspired by China’s propaganda model. China (178th) remains the world’s largest jail for journalists and reentered the bottom trio of the Index, coming just ahead of North Korea (179th). -- https://rsf.org/en/rsf-world-press-freedom-index-2025-econom...