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Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI (www.caixinglobal.com)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Falun Gong have allied with foreign intelligence services, but they weren't created by those services. Originally, the organization was allied with the Communist Party and on generally good terms. They only ran afoul of the Chinese Communists when Falun Gong leaders became embroiled in increasingly noxious financial and abuse scandals. Not unlike how the Catholic Church's status soured across Europe and the US East Coast following the slew of child sex abuse allegations.

That's when Falun Gong officials started fleeing to the NATO block and issuing increasingly hysterical allegations about the conduct of the CCP towards its members.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Thanks for the correction. The point remains that today's CCP mostly limits itself to suppressing foreign actors. And why should it need to suppress its own citizens, anyways? The CCP has a 95.5% approval rate. The Chinese people are utterly committed to their socialist project, and rightly view it as a creation to be proud of.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

And why should it need to suppress its own citizens, anyways?

The goal of the modern CCP is largely understood to be economic growth and steadily improving quality of life for domestic citizenry as a means of discouraging domestic upheavels (Tianamen and the Falun Gong lead movements being two classic examples).

That's going to come with some level of suppression due to friction between what any subset of the population believes/wants and what the central government believes/wants.

But this isn't - at it's root - a Socialist policy. It is a Confucian policy, with Socialist Characteristics.

The CCP has a 95.5% approval rate.

I hope you're joking.

There's no shortage of dissatisfaction with the CCP from within the Chinese polity. There's no shortage from within the CCP.

But what westerners don't like to talk about is the Mass Line approach employed by Chinese political leadership, which legitimately seeks to minimize conflict in pursuit of maximum economic benefits.

You don't have gonzo gunmen storming Beijing in hopes of winging President Xi, right now, because you don't have a public openly at odds with the mission of the chief executive.