It was mostly unlicensed street vendors using it, and fried food is the most popular street food. These practices were pretty heavily cracked down on in the 2010s though, some people got death sentences over this.

In Decline from their once amazing rate of people exiting poverty.

Because they ran out of people to elevate from poverty lmao

May I suggest another article about China’s billionaires?

Are you calling for the CPC to indiscriminately arrest people on rumors alone? Because last time I checked “getting caught” was a prerequisite for any kind of fair justice system.

I keep seeing this revisionism on Lemmy too. It’s like, there was a coalition to defeat the Nazis, it was between the liberals and the social democrats, and then they appointed Hitler Chancellor.

You wouldn’t want to end up like Boliva, with all the coup plotters in prison and the only person still willing to try an ineffectual loser!

The rate of profit is declining and the managers are looking for anything and everything to prop it back up. A German guy wrote about this like 150 years ago.

Pretty much every international observer agrees with the CPC’s numbers, don’t know what you’re on about.

This is such an oversimplified way of critiquing the world it defies response. Pack it in everybody, Flying Squid has determined that when a society gets many times wealthier than it was prior to the communists taking over, if they can’t successfully micro manage every single yuan to ensure that that wealth is perfectly evenly distributed then the communist project is a bust and the working class has been betrayed. Turns out it doesn’t matter which economic class controls the flow of Capital within a country, communism is when everybody gets the same paycheck.