> No, it hasn't got anything to do with that. It is simply that complaining about the same thing that another country does while your own country does it too is

> No, it hasn't got anything to do with that. It is simply that complaining about the same thing that another country does while your own country does it too is hypocritical. > You don't need to have a perfect record on everything else, but on that particular thing your statements are moot because your opponent (in this case China) will be able to simply ignore you because you do it yourself too. It would be about as effective as China calling the US to task for the same issue. Neither the BBC nor I are American. So maybe let's approach this in a more constructive manner: would you mind stating how you would discuss the topic of these chinese camps, taking into account both the scale of the problem and the severity of the events (without immediately derailing the discussion again)?