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#56 - China's War on Big Tech in 2021 - w/ Rogier Creemers

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Is the Chinese Communist Party Unaccountable?

Social media has enabled the chinese communist party to become more accountable in some way, despite a lack of genuine cratic institutions. So if you have photographic evidence of official corruption, and there have been some fairly well known examples of that in chinese politics in recent years, you know, like local officials being photographed with very expensive wrist watches. But you can now report that with one click, easy uploads, to the central discipline inspection committee. And obviously, that isn't accountability, but it does open doors for accountability at the individual level. I'm just saying that this is how bejing see a sort oforganic relationship between the party as the vanguard organization making all political, politically

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