do you find it kinda scary that you can hate a regime so much given that you've never been to said country?
I'm 99% sure you've never been to China given what you wrote.
I'm 99% sure you've never been to China given what you wrote.
How many WeChat messages just never quite show up? Only pooh bear knows.
I mean do people of GZ look oppressed to you?
I can assure you that most Chinese citizens are not systematically disappeared, tortured, and/or killed (and enfranchisement is not as valued there as it is here).
The regime has been objectively _good_ for the overwhelming majority of Chinese people. The economic growth and societal stability is what's unprecedented. This is not an excuse for the wrongs they are perpetrating, it's an acknowledgement of facts.
So some being systematically disappeared, tortured, and or killed is okay?
Here are a few recent examples of human rights abuses in China.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/a-sp...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests...
In China there is no freedom of speech. Foreign companies can have their IP taken from them.
In China you can go to prison for years for simply saying what I am saying right now. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52765838#:~:text=U....
What you are saying is factual (though you may be surprised to what lengths you can go to re: speech). I challenge you to find where I said otherwise. I was refuting OP's counterproductive hysteria. What you have mentioned here is unrelated.
If "most citizens of most Western countries were not systematically disenfranchised, monitored, disappeared, tortured, and killed" is meant to be contrastive with China (otherwise what's the point?) then the implication is that most citizens of China do suffer from that and thus "in constant fear for their livelihoods, lives, and loved ones".
Of course if you think that's terribly hyperbolic and not a charitable interpretation of the original poster's statement, then there's no actual disagreement.
>In China there is no freedom of speech. Foreign companies can have their IP taken from them
Lolz if you look on Weibo you can find tons of voices critical of the government,