Sure, but maybe not in a way that's celarly done to lose focus of the actual issue? If I'm on trial for murder the prosecutor would object to mentioning all the

Sure, but maybe not in a way that's celarly done to lose focus of the actual issue? If I'm on trial for murder the prosecutor would object to mentioning all the people who've been illegally killed by the state's army. Same thing here, China is accused of human rights violations, what other countries have done doesn't change whether or not that's true.