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> it’s unfashionable to call them out and castigate them This is an exaggeration. Anti-China sentiment has been surprisingly uncontroversial and bipartisan. It

• pjc50 6y ago
  Really the problem is reducing countries, China or America, to a single entity with a single will as if this was the middle ages and each was being run by a monarch. The problem is that China has done some specific extremely bad things - Uighurs, Hong Kong; as well as some normal things (competing against US companies) and some things that may be normal but are opaque (how many social networks are beholden to US intelligence services? how many apps snoop the clipboard?). Conflating them all into "China bad" makes it harder to make specific demands that can be widely supported.
  • BFatts 6y ago
    Putting kids in cages isn't as bad as the Uighurs? Separating families at the border isn't similar? C'mon... we are just as shitty in the US as other countries any more.
    • pjc50 6y ago
      Unfortunately the treatment of the Uighurs is even worse.
      • radegast 6y ago
        Okay then, how about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars? Or the US travel ban on members of the ICC, saying they are going to be arrested if they ever happen to be in a US territory? Or the drone strikes in countries, which are not at war with the US, because supposedly some terrorist is hiding there? Never mind that they kill hundreds of civilians per 1 actual target. What about the war on drugs, that's behind the current cartel situation in Mexico? And that's just the government, I am not even going to touch stuff like Monsanto. Why can't you just say "yeah, we Muhricans do shitty stuff too"?