The people before us weren't perfect. Their mistakes are blueprints to learn from and build a better world
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Yes, because the US started a trade war with them because they can't compete (in EVs also), and a few of their vassal states followed suit.
Sources on this? The PRC only blocks western surveillance platforms because they're incredibly dangerous to let them loose in your country. They're one of the few countries not naive enough to let facebook and google take over their social media landscape.
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/socialism_faq.md#what-about-the-tiananmen-square-massacre
Come on, you can't (I presume) ban someone and then ask them for sources.
I banned after this, reading further down and seeing them get more and more virulently racist.