I am literally the opposite of that. I'm a libertarian that has lived in 5 very different countries, China included and some of my earlier criticisms of China completely fell after I just read skimmed 3 million pages of western politicians raping and eating babies.
So I should clarify I think in today's world Governments especially in the Western countries no longer serve the people. The intellectual argument is that without government there is unrestricted violence and crime. There is some truth to that thought, the world becomes less about advancing technology for instance and more about whose stuff do I take so I can keep food on the table for my family.
People in the west, south America included have been fooled to think however that what's happening out of the US and Europe is just the natural state of a government and at the moment there are efforts in Asia trying to prove that you can manage government for the good of the people. Chinas approach is very no nonsense, if a government official for instance takes a bribe he is a dead man walking and we can see some good results coming out of that. Will China remain on this path of putting it's people first we will have to see.
The role of government defined by deep thinkers trying to sort through this mess is "authority with the monopoly of violence." The idea is no matter what ideology a gov has the never ending role of a government is to secure peace and stability by being the sole entity that can kill.
There are supposed to be checks and balances on this but historically when you introduce industry and money/rights to property, greed slowly takes over. The result is two extreme ideologies emerge, fascism or utopianism. One where wealth is concentrated with violence often by stealing and expands endlessly, the other where wealth is spread equally but runs into the moral problems associated with resource scarcity. Both systems end up as authoritarian and require revolutions to break.
🇵🇪 Peru’s Congress voted 75–24 to remove interim President José Jerí after just four months in office, ousting him as both head of state and President of Congress in a censure motion tied to undisclosed meetings with Chinese businessmen, the Associated Press reports.
The affair, dubbed “Chifagate,” centers on clandestine meetings that were not logged as required by law, including with an executive holding active government contracts, fueling allegations of influence peddling.
Jerí, a right-wing “Somos Perú” leader who champions economic liberalism and private investment, had enjoyed support from the US since taking office in October 2025 after Dina Boluarte’s removal. Jeri also backed US military operations in Venezuela. His downfall marks the ninth presidential change in less than a decade, highlighting Peru’s chronic political instability as it heads to general elections on April 12.
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