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China certainly isn't spotless, but for starters it 1. Hadn't invaded anyone in at least five decades now, 2. Is not the country with largest incarceration rate
by trasz 4y ago
China certainly isn't spotless, but for starters it 1. Hadn't invaded anyone in at least five decades now, 2. Is not the country with largest incarceration rate.
Event the minority rights situation in China is actually improving (https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1535797471581941761 https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1535797471581941761), not declining.
- fartcannon 4y agoThey invaded Hong Kong.
- oa335 4y agoHong Kong was leased by the British for 99 years (lease terms were set after British beat Chinese in opium wars, giving British drug dealers the right to sell opium to Chinese citizens). After 99 years, China was strong enough where British couldn’t reasonably renege on lease or force new terms, so they gave it back to China.
- fartcannon 4y agoI'm talking about the 2019-2020 destruction of their democracy.
- yorwba 4y agoThe 1979 invasion of Vietnam was less than five decades ago.
- pif 4y agoChina is not a democracy. That prevents any sane people to want to tighten their political relationship.
- trasz 4y agoAmericans' claim they live in democracy. Chinese say the same thing. To you China might not be a democracy; to somebody else US - where corporations literally just buy their own congressman - isn't a democracy either.
- pif 4y agoPeople in the USA vote regularly to choose their leader, while people in China do not. Hence, by definition, USA are a democracy and China is not. Sure, the last two elections were a confirmation that democracy is not perfect (with millions of idiots voting Trump in 2016 and still millions of freaking idiots voting Trump in 2020), but it is the best we have got so far.