What an interesting way to formulate your question. It’s literally flame baiting.
It’s literally flame baiting, but flame baiting is only figuratively flame baiting.
I’ll go get me coat.
I have family in China, I have family in the US, and I live in neither. Your average person just goes about their lives no matter where. You can be a political activist and go about your business in the US but you can't in China (and some other countries I've spent a few years in). Where I'm at, I can get spinal laser surgery and pay absolutely nothing out of pocket and well, US healthcare is memed the world over. Different countries, different worries.
Governments and politics is one thing, but getting by as average people, I feel we all just do our best no matter where we are.
Nope. China is worse. Dictatorship, Concentration camps, 1984 was used as a blueprint for the state and society, their buildings are made from the last scrap you can find and regularly collapse, the air quality is so unhealthy in most urban areas that it damages you just like chain smoking, their environment is poisoned and full of waste, they don't have a justice system but show courts for many things.
Define "worse". What's your concern? Level of democracy? Workplace safety? Living standards? Preserving nature and caring for the enviromnent? Mass surveillance? Economy or wealth? Independence of media? I guess these are all different questions. Generally we don't atrribute a general single bad-ness scale to a country. I suppose both countries don't excel at any of these metrics. But they're not at comparable levels, either.
I'd say not quite as bad, but it's still pretty bad. Especially if you like freedom, you won't have much fun there.
On the other side if you like political games, bootlicking and bribary you will have a very good time, not as a foreigner, but if you're Han Chinese and from a family which is already established in the party it's quite nice.
It's no worse than America as China makes it out to be.
Both are awful in their own ways.
What a way to put on the appearance of an enlightened neutral observer while completely ignoring the complex socio-political situation by reducing it to a simple, sweeping statement. Couldn't have done it better if I tried.
I'm going to guess you've never lived in a totalitarian state. Travel to China and express your discontent with the ruling party. See what happens.
I’m going to guess you’ve never lived in a totalitarian state
You and I might in a couple of weeks.
Not me. Thankfully I live an ocean away from that hellhole.
Travel to China and express your discontent with the ruling party. See what happens.
Travel to the US and express your admiration for Osama Bin Laden. See what happens.
Hint: you get sent to a US base in Cuba and held in detention there for decades without trial.
China is worse, but you are right, both are bad.
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