http://chuangcn.org/ for starters, in order to learn more about current political circumstances in China from a critical Marxist perspective. They’re doing amazing work. If you have the means at all, or the interest at all, i also think it absolutely would be worth learning Chinese so that you could approach these things without relying on English sources.

Having checked them out before, I get the general impression that they do good work on exposing the various struggles that Chinese citizens are faced with, but do they also provide a compelling argument that shows that in the grand scheme of things, the country is not in fact generally moving in the right direction after all the positives and negatives are accounted for? Like given that their goal for 2021 of eliminating absolute poverty seems to have been met, is there anything to suggest that conditions won’t continue to improve? Granted they’ve done nothing about inequality/made it worse over the years, but I always just assumed that was mostly because it wasn’t a priority while absolute poverty was still a thing. Now that they’re next milestone is to achieve a socialist society by 2049 though, I guess we’ll see what happens in the next couple of years one way or another.

Yeah I have been meaning to learn Chinese. Would probably be a more productive use of my time than browsing social media websites lol.

At the end of the day though, whether my optimism is misguided or not, as a citizen of a different country whose time/effort would probably be most effectively spent on issues here and not there, I don’t really see the harm in celebrating/being inspired by what appears to be significant tangible progress being made elsewhere currently.

Full disclosure, I’m very much a baby leftist so I do apologize if I’m misunderstanding/missing something here.

Cheers