Burden of proof is on your side. Prove that China is a democracy and western countries are dictatorships
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Because it's not a democracy
If China is a democracy, what opposition parties and media not related to government are in there?
There's only one party in China, every communication channel is controlled by party (not even the government).
China consistently ranks near the bottom in every democracy index
What bad news?
When I last checked it, western countries were democracies and china was a totalitarian regime. Did anything change in the last 5 minutes?
"No, anti AI people aren't technophobic"
Meanwhile anti AI people:
Bro thinks macbook neo repairable
That wouldn't be even needed. Just add back macos features to iOS and iPadOS
But US vs. Iran war isn't total war for the US, like Ukraine vs. Russia is for Russia.
Only 8 US soldiers died, compared to likely hundreds of Iranians and most of exposed Iranian infrastructure. US didn't even deploy a single aircraft carrier.
No. Even WW3: Iran vs. Rest Of The World scenario is more likely
Perception != reality
Functional democracy needs those things:
As far as I'm aware, China doesn't have any of those things.