Well it's not as bad as Mao. I'd put the Xinjiang camps somewhere worse than Tiananmen and somewhere better than the cultural revolution. Where would you put t

Well it's not as bad as Mao. I'd put the Xinjiang camps somewhere worse than Tiananmen and somewhere better than the cultural revolution. Where would you put them? [0] Then there is Covid, that's 2,240,000 dead at least. Plus enormous economic and social damage [1]. Crushing democracy in HK (democracy which was already laughably small and limited) and moving to a pure dictatorship - do we accept that? The expectation was for China to become more democratic not less. Then there is all the aggression towards their neighbours, from trying to steal islands to launching an attack on India, a nuclear power!? I'm far enough away not to worry about fallout but millions dead in a nuclear war would be better avoided than commiserated. I won't deny that China has improved economically. But its social progress has been very very slow and in the last 5 years its been going rapidly backwards. This can't be ignored anymore, either for humanitarian reasons or for the impact its having on the rest of the world. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps [1] https://covidgraph.com/ https://covidgraph.com/