>>Critics say it is aimed at crushing dissent but China says it is meant to maintain stability. Of course both are right. This is a blatant crushing of dissen

>>Critics say it is aimed at crushing dissent but China says it is meant to maintain stability. Of course both are right. This is a blatant crushing of dissent, wherein merely attempting to curate a few facts is now cast as a crime deserving a life sentence. OTOH, the CCP requires stability to maintain its illegitimate[1], brutally dishonest, murderous, expansionist authoritarian 'govt'. This "stability" and requires that the population remain ignorant of the CCP's corruption, history, and current practices. Western democracies were massively foolish to ever engage with CCP and treat it as if it were legitimate. While we thought we were exploiting cheap Chinese labor, the CCP strategically exploited our myopic focus on quarterly profits. They now have won a massive transfer of strategic commercial & military intellectual property, strategic manufacturing know-how, and massive amounts of capital to strategically deploy to buy more global influence. This will go down as a blunder of historic proportions. We see the signs every week, as here, yet nothing is done about it. [1] While this govt may be recognized, it came to power over it's people at the point of a gun, and can only maintain that power without the free consent of it's people. Being a de-facto ruler does not make a ruler legitimate. By that reasoning, the Taliban should immediately be recognized as a legitimate govt.