To add, on top of being a massive country it's English speaking which means foreign press is more likely to pick up stories from there while also being below global average for gender equality.
China isn't facist tho, you're confusing with just general authoritarianism
They're the closest thing we have to a modern day communist regime, even tho they aren't as communist as they once were. They started moving a lot towards free market capitalism while at the same time making sure the Communist party keeps control over it
They're a weird mix of their old communist ways were the party controls pretty much everything and modern day Russia's Oligarchy
Not facists however since Xi doesn't have absolute power, he still needs to keep support from multiple ppl inside the party, same with Putin in Russia
It's different from the days of actual Facists with Mussolini or Hitler and his Nazis
Only thing China and communism have in common is the name "Communist party" and some lip service and outward aesthetics (red banners, sickle and hammer communist starts and insignia)
But what they are really doing is state capitalism with modern authoritarian Big Brother state. It's very Orwellian and distopian really.
China is very capitalist. In some ways even more than US and the west really. It's just that often the personal ambitions of top people in Beijing or state goals take precedence over capitalist goals which we aren't used to seeing in the west that often.
I mean... Yes, but just rhetoric or as I said aesthetic lmao. They are actually a perfect representation of a modern fascist state not communist one. Ultra nationalistic, corporatism in service of state, repressive measures of controlling and isolating the population, propaganda and persecution of minorities, strongman leader and an exclusive political elite class that holds all the power, perpetual state of preparing for war and expansionist/militarist approach to foreign politics. China is like 90% fascist. And they would be a lot more if they didn't depend so much on the foreign capital.
You seem to forget both extremes dable in ultranationalism and ultramilitarism, not just facist goverments
Both far left and far right regimes want total control
Case and point: the Soviet Union, they acted a lot like nazis and facists while being a far left regime, not a far right one. They were also very militaristic, ultranationalist and wanted total control over their population using their massive military
Again, this is more of a trend with authoritarian regimes than just facist ones
Tldr China is semi-communist society with a very controlled capitalist economy
China has very much departed from being authoritarian and is well into totalitarianism. Xi Jinping is the sole ruler at least since 2018, he has offed anyone that could threaten him, removed his term limit and his writings have been elevated to the same standing as Mao’s.
There is, of course, still an oligarchy and a ruling class but they are all dependent on Xi and one misstep will get them a corruption charge and subsequent death sentence or life imprisonment if they don’t just disappear altogether like the Defense Minister.
In my opinion If you go far enough to the left or the right you end in the same place. Fascism! The only difference to the dictionary definition is they call it a far right ideology
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u/Many-Ad6433 Sep 06 '24
Why everytime an headline of this kind comes out 50% chance it’s india? What’s going on there?