• AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Reports this week from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal detail efforts by Chinese authorities to scrub the internet of negative takes on the state of its economy.

    According to the NYT, The Ministry of State Security said in its official WeChat account that citizens should not believe the “false narratives” about the trajectory of China, and instead should believe in President Xi Jinping’s vision.

    Meanwhile, officials continue to espouse an upbeat outlook for growth this year, even as the economy grapples with a cocktail of bearish headwinds including a troubled real estate sector, crashing stocks, deflation, and youth unemployment.

    In one example cited by The WSJ, an article from a Beijing-based outlet that called for more direct state intervention in addressing economic challenges was erased from the website within hours of publishing.

    That, too, disappeared shortly after it was published, and on WeChat, a message appeared to those trying to access it on Li’s account: “The content can’t be viewed due to violation of regulations.”

    Experts have told Business Insider over recent weeks that the “uber-bearish” narrative on China has become entrenched, and that authorities have slim chances of engineering a rebound in the near term.


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    9 months ago

    1984 :"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

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    A significant part of the problem with bad economy is people’s sentiment, not actual, real resource constraints. If they don’t have the latter, (I don’t know if they do or don’t), scrubbing bad feels and limiting their spread makes sense and could have positive results. People aren’t known to spread only sentiments based on objective facts.

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      9 months ago

      And if they do have the latter, then pretending everything is great rather than acknowledging it and taking steps to address it is a great way to make it worse.

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    I’m sure western bullshit about the Chinese economy is probably just being filtered as fake news, because it is.

    Meanwhile the US National Security Advisor has admitted on multiple occasions that the Chinese economic model (market socialism and public ownership and investment into natural monopolies, a core tenet of SWCC) is more effective at economic growth than the American model (let Wall Street do whatever).

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      Honestly.

      Chinese media has an agenda regarding China. Western media has an agenda regarding China.

      Where am I supposed to get factual Chinese news, fuckin Douyu chat??

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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        I mean you can look at the track record of different media publications and see which ones tend to be more realistic historically. That’s a pretty good predictor of which ones are going to give you a more accurate picture going forward. Western media reporting on China has been consistently wrong about pretty much everything for many decades now. Chinese media might embellish things, or downplay problems in China, but overall it appears to be far closer to reality.

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      I struggle to believe anything China reports about themselves.

      I guess it’s time to accept that we really don’t know fuck all about anything.

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      This. The first time I saw one of those on the 'tube I thought “oh that’s interesting and also alarmist?” All it took was watching that one video and then my recommendations got flooded with more of the same. I didn’t know china doom was a whole ass genre on youtube.

      They do have some weird fucking real estate shit going on, tho.

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    Meanwhile, the US’s economists and their propaganda rags publications are screaming as loud as they can that the economy is great.

    And for some strange reason, no one believes them. Hmm!

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    It’s never that the other side is doing well, it’s always that they’re running propaganda.

    “People in the ‘democratic republic of we-actually-care-about-our-people’ aren’t happy, that’s just propaganda” meanwhile they run bullshit “place where people are free and prosperous” maps which always look the fucking same no matter what it’s actually about.

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    I feel like the Chinese internet deserves its own name, such as “the chinanet”