Another country has called Xi a 'dictator' and China is not happy with that description | CNN
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China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.

China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.

    • @stembolts@programming.dev
      0•8 months ago

      This is a weak argument.

      I was not aware that term length was the method by which a dictatorship was determined. (Hint : It is not) In a democratic country, keep the people happy, stay in power. Is that how China works?

      I could speak more on this but I will match your low effort and pause there.

      • Krause [he/him]
        0•8 months ago

        In a democratic country, keep the people happy, stay in power. Is that how China works?

        Yes it is, here’s a Harvard Ash Center study proving it:

        https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/

        https://ash.harvard.edu/files/ash/files/final_policy_brief_7.6.2020.pdf

        The survey team found that compared to public opinion patterns in the U.S., in China there was very high satisfaction with the central government. In 2016, the last year the survey was conducted, 95.5 percent of respondents were either “relatively satisfied” or “highly satisfied” with Beijing. In contrast to these findings, Gallup reported in January of this year that their latest polling on U.S. citizen satisfaction with the American federal government revealed only 38 percent of respondents were satisfied with the federal government.

        I could speak more on this but I will match your low effort and pause there.

        I’d rather not read any more stupid comments from smug and uninformed liberals like you in my inbox, thanks for the favor.

        • @stembolts@programming.dev
          0•8 months ago

          This is clearly troll, but let’s play. Why not.

          Let’s first recall the initial assertion, readers please keep it in mind, (Image asserting dictatorship among western politicians)

          Let’s see what conversational traps the troll uses.

          1. “Proves” China is happy. Let’s assume their proof is valid to save time. Pause, revisit initial point, is it related? Doesn’t seem to be. Alright let’s continue.
          2. Asserts I am liberal? Odd, seems related to nothing. None of the topics seems attached to this assertion. Let’s continue.

          End of post, so let’s revisit, has the responder provided anything of value on the topic (recalling that this is a topic that they initialized). Well, no.

          2/10 troll. Mildly entertaining though. I’m glad they posted, its a good education for people to see common tactics used by time vampires. Have a nice day troll or trollbot.

          • Krause [he/him]
            0•8 months ago

            The irony of calling me a troll while at the same time dismissing a study you haven’t read to attack my character. Please keep your word and stick to just one low effort reply here, I don’t think anyone needs to read you embarrass yourself any further.