This is the definition of whataboutery. 'America is bad to', is not an argument against any critique of China. Any US or European citizen can travel freely thr

This is the definition of whataboutery. 'America is bad to', is not an argument against any critique of China. Any US or European citizen can travel freely throughout their country or to most countries in the world. While the US carceral state is indeed abominable and a continuation of the suppression of African Americans, America does not have prison camps holding a million members of an ethnic minority. The NSA surveillance programme revealed by Snowdon and Manning is awful, as are the continuing attempts to prosecute and silence whistle blowers. Fortunately the US does not regularly send police officers to harass citizens based on their expressed political beliefs. Nor does it scrub political communication and expression from the internet or censor it from public media. Electoral fraud and gerrymandering are awful. They are in no sense comparable to actual dictatorship however. Critiques of murderous dictatorships like those in Russia, China and North Korea are always side tracked like this. No one is disputing the many and varied faults of liberal democracies. But to hold them up as equivalent to the imprisonment of Uyghurs, the harvesting of prisoner organs and so on is disingenuous to say the least. Not least because we in the west have the privilege of making these critiques, which Chinese do not.