There have been on and off protests but has it actually stopped the raising of the retirement age?
Also China is above striving to act like the decrepit capitalists states in the EU. Its best they decide against it.
That’s what i’m saying. I believe and i hope that China will continue to show that it has a government which behaves in a qualitatively different way.
There is a reason why publications like the Economist are trying so hard to push the idea that China needs to do these things supposedly for its own good, and it’s because China refuses to act like western neoliberal governments do. The West are trying to gaslight the Chinese into thinking that these are the kinds of policies that you need to implement if you want to be part of the modern, developed world. But at this point i don’t think anyone in the Chinese government is falling for that; all they have to do is take a look at the shitshow that Western countries have become and contrast it to how much better things are going in China. Why abandon successful policies in favor of a clearly failing model?
Probably not, but Westerners have an overinflated sense of their own importance and assume the entire world is always paying attention to what their media and politicians do and say. I’ve heard a bunch of US commentators who are convinced for instance that Putin and Xi sat and watched the entire US presidential debate. To someone outside of their bubble that sounds absurd, but these people are so entirely self-absorbed that they are convinced they are the center of the universe and they project their own obsessions onto everyone else.
There have been on and off protests but has it actually stopped the raising of the retirement age?
That’s what i’m saying. I believe and i hope that China will continue to show that it has a government which behaves in a qualitatively different way.
There is a reason why publications like the Economist are trying so hard to push the idea that China needs to do these things supposedly for its own good, and it’s because China refuses to act like western neoliberal governments do. The West are trying to gaslight the Chinese into thinking that these are the kinds of policies that you need to implement if you want to be part of the modern, developed world. But at this point i don’t think anyone in the Chinese government is falling for that; all they have to do is take a look at the shitshow that Western countries have become and contrast it to how much better things are going in China. Why abandon successful policies in favor of a clearly failing model?
i doubt anyone in any position of power even reads the British rag, much less would be convinced of anything in it
I’m sure they read it for entertainment.
Probably not, but Westerners have an overinflated sense of their own importance and assume the entire world is always paying attention to what their media and politicians do and say. I’ve heard a bunch of US commentators who are convinced for instance that Putin and Xi sat and watched the entire US presidential debate. To someone outside of their bubble that sounds absurd, but these people are so entirely self-absorbed that they are convinced they are the center of the universe and they project their own obsessions onto everyone else.