Most of their negatives are inward facing. My fear of them taking the mantle of world power would be that they become a highly racist and destructive expansionist power similar to the US of the Manifest Destiny era, but that remains to be seen.

They are still quite openly repressive and you can and will face prison time for wrongspeak. Everything we hate about corporate surveillance they’ve been doing basically since the internet went mainstream. I doubt LGBT+ would have a good time under their rule, to say the least. Porn is outright criminalized. I’m not sure where they stand on piracy, but the tools you need to do it “safely” are probably illegal, and you’ve got the great firewall to contend with.

The level of casual racism in Chinese culture is pretty exceptional. It’s not great in the USA, but China takes it to a whole new level.

Things are supposedly getting better, but then we also say that in the west (and is it really).

Am I going to get flogged for pirating games or is it just as bad as the US?

Chinese Prison Standards as of this year:

https://safeguarddefenders.com/sites/default/files/2026-07/BEHIND BARS PRISONS.pdf

and US Prison Standards:

https://eji.org/issues/prison-conditions/

Neither are good.

It’s hypercompetitive from an early age I guess? College exams are matter of life-or-death, it’s the only ticket to a good life you will ever get, the spots are limited, and you are either pride or disgrace of the family depending on your academic excellence. And you are competing with thousands of other kids who are also pressured to excel.

I would probably kill myself if I was pressured so much to compete with fellow humans as a kid, honestly.

So, you know all those bad things you hear about China? State survalience, freedom of movement, free speech. We decided to implement all of the bad things and none of the good things.

Why? Well, because we have to. You don’t want China to WIN THE RACE FOR AI SUPER INTELLIGENCE! Then you’ll lose all your symbolic freedoms that have already been destroyed.

I just want high speed rail man. I just want to go to the grocery store and not spend $100+ for one bag of groceries. I can’t follow recipes, the spices cost $12 or more a piece.

I don’t want to “be China”. I stan for China because despite their many flaws, they are improving and building shit. We can do that here if we learn from the way that they reign in capitalist control. My local library has visible black mold and the librarian is always coughing.

Also, a lot of the “evil state government disappearing people” are things like this:

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34127010

Say I’m crazy. But I think the death sentence is bad. But, if I was gonna reserve it for anything. I’d reserve it for people that decide to poison baby formula for profit.

Hell, if I was world dictator, I’d mandate than any mother that needed baby formula they could go into any store and get it for free. Meanwhile, we lock up our baby formula behind glass. Because no one in their right mind, sees someone stealing baby formula and thinks “that person is wrong”. I would hope they think “what the fuck is wrong with our society that people are stealing baby formula”

I would also like to know because we already have all of the commie distopia promises I was told about. Are there new worse ones now, or am I supposed to rely entirely on cognitive dissonance?

I’m very freaked out by humanoid robots and hope that they aren’t actually viable as labor replacements, so I hope this is true.

Nah, they understand the value of having a humanoid robot for general factory work. The technology is relatively primitive now but imagine where they will be in 5-10 years.

It took me a minute to figure out what this meant, and then I saw your username.

I’m not on either team. But I’m definitely not on Team Sport. So I guess maybe ya got me.

pretty sure this is team sport?