China's human rights record is quite spectacular. The Chinese Communist Party has lifted a billion people out of poverty since the revolution, while doubling life expectancy from ~35 to nearly 70. Before the revolution, China was an awful feudal backwater with a large population of desperately-poor peasants. The low life expectancy was a reflection of miserable living conditions: poverty, filth, malnourishment, no medical care, no public health infrastructure, illiteracy, etc., etc. After the revolution, dramatic changes were made over a few decades. Public health infrastructure was installed. Free medical care was provided. Malnourishment was wiped out or dramatically curtailed. Illiteracy was nearly wiped out. And so on. Most notably, the Party abolished famine. For 2,000 years, China averaged one devastating famine every year. Since the revolution: ONE famine, 60 years ago, and that one mainly due to extraordinarily bad weather.
Giving billions the chance to live full lives in reasonable health and security, wiping out illiteracy, and abolishing famine... "spectacular" is not too strong a word. I can't imagine another place or time that remotely compares. The U.S.? Not even close. In fact, the U.S. is going the other direction rapidly, with poverty and precarity on a steep rise, suicide becoming epidemic, and so on. (And yes, those things reflect human rights: the right to live in decent security, free from poverty, and free from such dreadful conditions as to cause one to contemplate, or commit, suicide.)
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in case you missed it:
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China issues report on U.S. human rights
April 25, 2018
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"A chronology of human rights violations by the United States in 2017 was released by the office Tuesday. China's report said the United States posed once again as "the guardian of human rights" and a self-styled "human rights judge" while its own human rights record remained tarnished and showed continued deterioration. The report accused the United States of serious infringement on citizens' civil rights, systematic racial discrimination, severe flaws in American-style democracy, widening rich-poor divide, and discrimination and assault against some specific groups such as women, children and people with disabilities, as well as its continued violations of human rights in other countries."
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BTW, I note that the U.S. has this very strange penchant for throwing masses of its people into prison, unlike China:
prison population:
U.S. 2,217,000 = 1.46% of total pop (of 325 million)
China 1,649,000 = 0.12% of total pop (of 1.38 billion)
What's that again about "human rights"?
China dont take prisoners, they kill em, and they are biggest slave labor force on the planet, leave your job---> you get killed, You can say all the good shit you want about this fucked up country,, No One Hears You(Thank God) And china is fucking godless!!
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China kills masses of COMMON PEOPLE? Really? And your evidence for that is... what?
Disingenuous question, because I know you have no evidence, only CIA anti-China bullshit propaganda.
But China DOES indeed execute people, that's for sure, including scores of millionaires, billionaires and other miscreants when they have been proven to be ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE.
Contrast that with the U.S., where proven enemies of the people are not only NOT executed, or even imprisoned, but instead are given special subsidies and rewards!
Under capitalism, anti-social criminals and psychopaths become CELEBRITIES and are glorified in the media, films, books, etc. (e.g. all of Ayn Rand's tripe).
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China Executes 14 Billionaires in 8 Years, Culture News Reports
Bloomberg News
July 22, 2011, 8:51 PM EDT
China executed 14 people with assets of at least a 1 billion yuan ($155 million) during the past eight years as the government expanded its fight against corruption, according to the New Culture News newspaper.
The dead include Yuan Baojing, a former stockbroker executed by lethal injection in 2006 for the murder of a man who had tried to blackmail him, according to the report. Wang Zhendong, chairman of the Yingkou Donghua Trading Group, was executed in 2008 for a scheme that persuaded investors to buy and breed ants, the report said.
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China Executes Billionaire Who Ran 'Mafia-Style' Criminal Gang
By Michael Forsythe
Feb. 9, 2015
HONG KONG A Chinese billionaire who was building a mining empire in Australia was executed Monday after a court last year sentenced him to die for running a "mafia-style" gang that engaged in murder and extortion.
Liu Han, 49, his brother Liu Wei, and three associates were executed on Monday, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported, citing the Xianning Intermediate People's Court in the central Chinese province of Hubei. The men had been sentenced last May for running a criminal syndicate that killed at least eight people, ran extortion schemes, trafficked weapons and operated gambling dens.
Their crimes were "deeply evil and particularly cruel," Xinhua cited the court as saying.
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China Sentences Ex-Chairman of Hengfeng Bank to Death
Bloomberg News
December 26, 2019, 9:24 PM EST
Jiang found to have misappropriated $108 million of firm stock
Hengfeng Bank received about $14 billion bailout package
The former chairman of struggling lender Hengfeng Bank Co. has been sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve by a Chinese court for making illegal gains of over $100 million.
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Death for Chinese businessman who raped 25 young girls
Former company chairman coerced woman into finding girls, including 14 under the age of 14, for sex
Some of his victims recruited more girls from four schools in central China
Zhuang Pinghui in Beijing
Published: 5:41pm, 5 Jun, 2019
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Why Do Chinese Billionaires Keep Ending Up in Prison?
REBECCA CHAO
JANUARY 29, 2013
In most places, being ranked by a prominent magazine among the wealthiest people in the country constitutes a great honor. Not in China. Such lists, known as bai fu bang in China and published in Forbes and its Chinese equivalent Hurun, are described instead as the sha zhu bang: "kill pigs list."
In the last fifteen years, China has produced greater overall wealth than any other country. The number of its billionaires has gone from a mere 15 to around 250 in just six years, but for a number of these people this vaulted status is short-lived. According to one study, 17 percent of those on the list end up squealing their way to court or end up in jail. If they're lucky, those who are caught are investigated and jailed. Some are even executed.
