Comparing revolutions

“Take a look at Cuba’s reforms and then compare them with China. [In China] we see iron fists breaking rice bowls, selling hospitals, forcing people to relocate; there are 200 million unemployed people, 20 million forced prostitutes, soaring prices for consumer goods; people cannot afford education, healthcare, housing, marriage, having children, retirement, and even funerary cost …”

Source: “The ‘Socialist Other’: Cuba in Chinese Ideological Debates since the 1990s”, by Yinghong Cheng