This is effectively the default for the Chinese market for foreign companies. Whatever "absurd" push you are thinking of, it's nowhere close to even basic reciprocation for Chinese policy.
For example, the United States clearly has dark stains in its history. Slavery obviously, Japanese interment in WW2, the treatment of Native Americans (eg Trail of Tears), segregation, etc. And these are all raised as counterpoints when criticizing China for human rights abuses.
But here's the difference. You can't end up in prison of a "re-education" camp in the US for discussing any of these. Now compare that to China's treatment of political "dissidents", the treatment of the Uighurs, Tibet, the Tiannemen Square massacre and the censorship of these and other issues.
So no, they're not equivalent.
It's the same for "pressure" on US companies. It's a question of degree. The US has courts that can check the power of executive or legislative overreach. US companies can (and have) resisted the US governments efforts within these legal frameworks.
Twitter and Facebook, both US companies, removed a sitting US president from their platforms after excessive policy violations (and justifiably so) so whatever "geopolitical pressure" you imagine, it's simply less in the US.
* Occupied Afghanistan for 20 years, and its last act there was to drone strike an aid worker and his family.
* Invaded Iraq based on false claims of WMD, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
* Helped overthrow the government of Libya, plunging the country into a decade of chaos.
I'm not going to defend China's actions (though I would push back against some of the absurd exaggerations that are often made), but some perspective is needed here.
You aren't providing "prospective" by desperately trying to shift the focus away from China onto the US, you are running interference for them.
Oh, and Libya was a NATO operation in which the US largely took a back seat to the French, British, and Canadian Air Forces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_...
If you are going to propagandize, you might as well be accurate.
Only once it was clear he was out the door.
No, it is not its shady history, is its present. The US still has policies against African Americans. It still has Guatanamo Bay. It is bombing innocent civilians in the middle east. It is still detaining children for the crime of crossing its borders and expelling people who came to ask for legal Asylum. It is still persecuting whistle blowers. It still has a world wide program of wiretapping. It is pure hypocrisy to talk about China as a human rights abuser when the list of US abuses is this long.
China is operating prison camps for somewhere between 1 and 3 million of its own citizens. Guantanamo Bay at it's height housed 143 people. The US treats whistleblowers harshly, China disappears people without so much as a legal case against them.
My goodness does anyone have a sense of proportion of the scale criminally here?