Full electrics (BEVs) alone accounted for 24% of the country’s auto sales. This pulled the 2023 share to 35% (24% BEVs), and considering the current growth rate, we can assume that China’s plugin vehicle market share will end over 40% by the end of 2023.

I wouldn’t worry too much about Asia.

Yamaha Pacificas are a great first guitar in terms of value for money.

The US doesn’t care about the Chinese people. There’s no malice, there’s no ill intention, they just don’t care beyond the vague ‘hope they find democracy someday’ schtick. This whole geopolitical shadow war you worry about only exists in your adolescent head and the heads of your equally juvenile comrades.

Go outside and try to be a contributing member of society. Maybe even meet a girl. Or a guy, if that’s your thing.

Whatever, kid.

I didn’t dignify the juvenile barb with a response. Take it how you like.

The same reason 99.999% (there’s a 0.001% margin of error) of North Koreans love the Kims.

A combination of patriotism, indoctrination and fear. Talk to Chinese people sometime. In person, not on WeChat.

The only people that praise communism are those that never lived through it.

If that’s your takeaway, you haven’t.

I know it because my mother lived through it. But go off, I guess, comrade.

No. They do not.

Yeah, it was a real cultural revolution for China. A great leap forward even.

I’m not reading a pop politics book for you. Go read The Gulag Archipelago.

Corrupt politicians purging enemies is not the win you think it is there, chief.

Because I spent six months in Guangzhou and three in Qingdao.

UK.

Oh, it would be way worse, because communism is always way worse.

I think it would still be terrible even if there were no USA. If there were no USA, whatever brought them down would have collapsed the entire world’s economy and there would be thousands of nukes lying around.

I’d rather be a billionaire in the US because my English is better than my Mandarin. Quality of life would be exactly the same at that income bracket wherever you live in the world. Labor protection would be weaker in China though, if I were looking to exploit my workers…

Actually talk to people from China sometime. For weeks all wechat was was people saying “yeah, it sucks, but I’d do the same”

You mean economic liberal? Bush was far from politically liberal.

I’ve spent six months in Guangzhou and three in Qingdao.

I can’t believe you forgot about this, but here we go

Socialist china has a higher homeless rate than capitalist hell-hole USA

I was taught the tenets of Buddhism in my nationally-required Religious education lessons. Does that make me a Buddhist? Does that make my nation a Buddhist one?

There, your question is answered.

China has been peddling the same excuse about needing to get their economy up to a certain point before they can fully embrace communism since the Great Step Forward.

Meanwhile, there are 969 billionaires in China, it is the home of sweatshops and workers aren’t legally allowed to strike.

Soshulizm

If your idea of socialism is homeless people dying in the streets and people stepping over children because taking them to hospital lumbers you with their medical bills then, sure, China is as socialist as they come.