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Chinese pop culture will not experience an absolute flowering like 90s Japan because CCP censorship makes it boring

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censorship Who gets to remove what: speech, code and money, and whether a state prosecuting a platform is regulation or something else.

Japan Stagnation, demographics, finance and industry, and what the rest of the world reads into them.

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  1. Noah Smith Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
    the 2020s should be an absolute flowering of Chinese pop culture like the 90s were for Japan, but it won't, because CCP censorship is just bad enough to make Chinese pop culture boring af

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