“In China, the people can’t change the government, but the system keeps changing. In countries like the US, the people can change the government, but the system can’t be changed.” quora.com/How-safe-is-Ch…
2/“Finally, came Deng Xiao Ping who famously said:“It doesn’t matter black cat (Capitalism) or white cat (Communism), as long as it catches mice, it’s a good cat”. His preference in pragmatism than ideologies has transformed China. This thinking allowed China to make plans which
3/“suit the actual needs in the country, instead of rigidly bounded to ideologies. By embracing market economy, it signified China had stopped pursuing the goal of a communism state...

In just 40 years, the CPC have lifted 800 million people out from poverty. The rate of growth
4/“is unprecedented in human history...

The Chinese have built by far the biggest high-speed rail network in the world, and they have become a behemoth in infrastructure. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the
5/“Silicon Valley...

The Chinese are living a decent life, have decent social welfare, and China has become one of the safest countries in the world. The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height...

For all of the achievements, the West has nothing
6/“good to say about it... Western Media used the keyword “Communist” to instil fear and hatred towards China...

The West claimed China a totalitarian regime. In JUL 2020, a paper published by Harvard University showed satisfaction towards the Central Government had increased
7/“from 86% to 93% b/t 2003 & 2016...

The West claimed the Chinese have no freedom. In the West, personal freedom is prioritized, while in China, freedom is collective. For example, in China, people are deprived of freedom in gun possession, but the society as a whole is safer.”
8/China has never sought to conquer the world (that’s been more the domain of the European & Western powers), but neither does it want to be conquered. “Live & let live” is the motto China wants to live by in its pursuit of Chinese prosperity. The question: Can the US live by it?

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@duyeonkim @BulletinAtomic The US's nuclear triad is more dangerous and they know it. It is beyond ludicrous, it's delusional to think DPRK is planning to attack South Korea. They have a No First Use Policy and their nukes are only for defense if say the US attacked them. Besides
@duyeonkim @BulletinAtomic 2/attacking ROK/US/allies/territories would be suicide and DPRK definitely want's to survive - and thrive in socialist economic prosperity.

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You KNOW why DPRK has nukes right? The US, by its policy, can do a nuclear first
@duyeonkim @BulletinAtomic 3/strike on North Korea in the name of “self-defense”. Read John Bolton’s piece. DPRK has read it. So DPRK is deterring the US from attacking/regime change/nuclear first strike thru textbook deterrence theory. They just did self-defense exercises which every sovereign nation has
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Biden’s NK Policy Review, likely a step-by-step/phased approach of denuclearization rewarding DPRK at each step w/ sanctions relief, clashes w/: "[W]e shall never barter our system, the safety & future of our people for the likes of lifting of sanctions”.
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Kim Yo Jong calls out the hypocrisy of the double standard in self-defense exercises in Moon Jae In’s rhetoric in a statement of scathing critique.
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The Biden Admin’s North Korea Policy Review will likely take a step-by-step/phased approach towards North Korea’s “complete denuclearization”, rewarding DPRK at each step w/ incremental sanctions relief.
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Anchor: “The trilateral meeting this time this Friday may mean that we will soon see the conclusion of the Biden Administration’s North Korea Policy. What are you expecting.”

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Nice unbiased piece by NPR about the Echo of Truth YouTube Channel hosted by Un A (which YouTube has subsequently taken down).
[From August 12, 2020]

North Korea Makes A Push To Reach Foreign Audiences On YouTube And Twitter
npr.org/2020/08/12/901…
2/Apparently the modern, sexy, intelligent socialist woman Un A is DPRK overload and too much of an existential threat to the American propaganda machine. YouTube has aided and abetted the US’s “North Korea narrative” by cancelling Echo of Truth & maligning it as “propaganda”.
3/Being half-Asian myself I’ve gotta side w/ Un A and express how pathetic American social media is when, w/ clear ideological bias, it “cancels” - censors rather - DPRK’s new contemporary social media makeover. And what makes it worse is that “What’s Up Pyongyang” is anything
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3/“However, there is an open dangerous attempt to deny the right of self-defence of our state.

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Technicalities.
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