This fixation on "US moral failings" as a stopping point for the conversation is not especially useful. Both countries have done and are doing great things. Bo

This fixation on "US moral failings" as a stopping point for the conversation is not especially useful. Both countries have done and are doing great things. Both countries have done and are doing reprehensible things, and they deny it as best they can. One country codifies individual liberty as a guiding principle (however imperfectly fulfilled). The other eschews liberty as a distraction from the national interest, indeed it views the spread of democratic government as a threat. US values do not require the world to become less free. Can one say the same of China?