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I'm a native mandarin speaker and China's politics seems so opaque af. All I really know if the real life experiences as like a civillian, and stories my parents told me, and my 8 years of childhood memories there. No clue what the fuck is happening inside Beijing.
I mean I can tell you about my personal experiences of what life is like, but I don't know about how the political system even fuctions. Even my parents that grew up there and lived there for decades there doesn't know wtf is going on in the politics. Its blurry, it's confusing. In my view, it feels kinda like another imperial dynasty, but with CCP as a party at top instead of a traditional monarch.
Edit:
Also: Regarding June 4, 1989, I asked my parents about it and they just said "oh there was something happened with university students... civil unrest" that's all they know. Guangdong Province was where they were at and its far away from Beijing. Now that we're in the US and told them about the western side of the story, and they're like: "whatever happened, it was probably necessary, its not like the country could just allow such chaos to happen" so... yeah... they don't really care. I suspect most people in China don't pay too close attention either.
My older brother made a huge fuss about it when he learned it in the US, I think it was in school where he learned it, totally shocked him and shattered his worldview. I remember him telling me about it, and telling me to "Google Tiananmen Square Massacre". Now he's seems like a conspiracy theorist that distrusts any and all governements, that shock is probably what turned him to Antivax, I mean the shock of his schools in China hiding the other side of the story.
Who do you follow, that you might suggest?