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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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[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Tell that to people living in the countryside, lol. Even if your wannabe-communist, Western-born, city dwelling, mindset tell you otherwise, those on the country have limited access to transportation and infrastructures that city folks take for granted.

[-] volodya_ilich@lemm.ee -3 points 3 months ago

Data says otherwise. Since the end of the soviet block, there's been a massive migration outwards from the countryside in favour of urban life all over the former socialist republics. Maybe the idea of subsidizing the infrastructure of the countryside despite it not making sense within capitalism wasn't such a bad idea after all... Please, try to respond to that: why are people flocking from the degrading countryside in post soviet countries

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Please, try to respond to that: why are people flocking from the degrading countryside in post soviet countries

"I don't understand why people live in cities." - Peak Tankie Analysis, apparently

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Since the end of the soviet block, there's been a massive migration outwards from the countryside in favour of urban life all over the former socialist republics.

We're talking about during communist era, you goal-post moving dong head.

You are literally just did what this comment chain is criticising lol.

[-] volodya_ilich@lemm.ee -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Think harder. I'm not "moving goalposts", I'm saying, if life in the countryside was so bad during soviet times, why are people from the countryside moving out now and not before... You said "tell that to the people living on the countryside", the reality is that the people in the countryside were forced to leave the countryside after communism. So why don't you go ask them?

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