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China surpassed the United States in global approval ratings in 2025, with a median of 36% approving of China’s leadership, compared with 31% for the U.S. China’s five-percentage-point advantage over the U.S. is the widest Gallup has recorded in China’s favor in nearly 20 years.

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Funny, ten minutes ago I wrote this: https://lemmy.ca/comment/22610922 literally further down the this very thread.

How can you at the same time say that "carceral state" is a tankie dogwhistle, and also say that nobody is giving the US a pass?

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Easy. They are not mutually exclusive?

How many TP Link routers, were found to be compromised by China and had to be removed from U.S. infrastructure?

Salt Typhoon hack?

Why does China restrict access to the internet without massive censure?

Your link just takes me back to your parent comment.

Your entire argument is the pot calling the kettle black.

If you were just discussing the shitty things the U.S. is doing, I would be in total agreement, but you are trying to shoehorn "How great China is" into the discussion.

No matter how terrible the U.S. is and gets, it will not erase all the terrible things China has and is doing too. No matter how much you argue otherwise.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The link works for me. What can I tell you, I'm literally debating shitty Chinese policies with user "stumu415" on a different sub thread here. Search for the string "IAGS" in the comments under this post. I'm tired trying to convince you I'm not an elephant when you continuously make bad faith assumptions and miscaracterise what I'm saying.

Edit: if you're denying the existence of mass incarceration system in the US (aka the carcéral state) you're denying reality and absolutely giving the US a pass.