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Yet another one of China's elite has disappeared after criticizing Xi Jinping (www.businessinsider.com)

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A top economist has joined the growing list of China's elite to have disappeared from public life after criticizing Xi Jinping, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Zhu Hengpeng served as deputy director of the Institute of Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) for around a decade.

CASS is a state research think tank that reports directly to China's cabinet. Chen Daoyin, a former associate professor at Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, described it as a "body to formulate party ideology to support the leadership."

According to the Journal, the 55-year-old disappeared shortly after remarking on China's sluggish economy and criticizing Xi's leadership in a private group on WeChat.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think I gave more than enough of the benefit of the doubt in my original comment... I am not an expert or scholar on this, but it would seem as though there is some contention as to whether or not this fits the clarification of "genocide," but that majority of experts on the subject seem to think it is impossible to deny the intentionality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor_genocide_question

I know you have some need to defend the USSR at all costs, which means ignoring or attempting to explain away the very real, very awful things that they did in the name of Marxism. And I think that's a shitty thing to do, and it makes leftists who aren't accelerationist psychopaths look bad.

From all of this, it's impossible to make the claim that there was any genocidal intent against Ukrainians in the USSR, which in fact saved the Slavic peoples from extermination by the Nazis.

Impossible? Really?

So is it safe to assume that you are a scholar on the subject? Or just another rando on the internet that creates elaborate rationales to quell the cognitive dissonance that comes with believing that a nation (any nation) can do no wrong?

Stalin was a shitstain. Again, not an expert, but based on what I've read this morning, "impossible" is not the word I would use.