• perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    It’s gotten so good that China might be restricting output to keep the prices high…

    (their onshore wind, and pumped hydro storage, are also great success stories, as is the EV industry there)

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      Indeed. China is such a paradox. An absolute anathema in terms of culture and politics. It’s almost impossible for us Westerners to grasp how a people could accept that level of authoritarianism, how they could value their personal freedom so little. And yet, and yet. Without China we would be royally screwed. They are pulling the weight of the green transition basically alone. So personally I’ve decided to hold off on China-bashing for now.

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        Westerners to grasp how a people could accept that level of authoritarianism,

        So personally I’ve decided to hold off on China-bashing for now.

        You just did, according to .ml users, because ACkShuLly cHiNa iSnT aN AuThoRitArIaN CounTRy

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        9 days ago

        Tiananmen Square was not that long ago. There are lots of living people who would have seen their fellow students get crushed by tanks and rinsed down a drain.

        That will keep a generation and their children quiet. Their children have also now seen how risings are punished via Hong Kong.

        I don’t think it’s even possible to imagine what you would do having seen your government enact that kind of violence on your peers. So I certainly don’t judge.

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          In a way it’s even scarier than that. Most younger Chinese do not even know those things happened. I can confirm this incredible fact from personal experience. At this point “Tiananmen Square 1989” has more meaning to the average educated Westerner than it does over there. It has been scrubbed from history.