The answer to that question could fill several books. Among more recent events are the human rights violations, the increasing saber-rattling about Taiwan, the increasing joint military exercises with Russia, and the mass addition of malware/spyware to chips meant for foreign markets.
Rather than take my word for it, though, I encourage you to do some research on your own - preferably not entirely through Internet sources. In particular, the current issue of the World Affairs journal (volume 185, issue 3) has several relevant articles.
"Between 2001 and 2005, CIA officers captured an estimated one hundred fifty people and transported them around the world.[12][13][14][15]
Under the Bush administration, rendered persons were reported to have undergone torture by receiving countries. Journalists, civil and constitutional rights groups, and former detainees have alleged that this occurred with the knowledge or cooperation of the administrations of the United States and the United Kingdom."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20separate%20European,United%20Nations%20Convention%20Against%20Torture https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition#:~:t....
"A Wedding That Became a Funeral
US Drone Attack on Marriage Procession in Yemen"
https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/02/19/wedding-became-funeral/us-drone-attack-marriage-procession-yemen https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/02/19/wedding-became-funeral...
"5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff."
https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/ https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/
Plenty more where those came from, also enough to fill quite a few books.
See my other comments regarding US vs China in this context.
I'd take the United States versus China any day of the week.
People keep making China out like they some kind of benevolent dictator. Keep in mind that all the shit talking everyone does on Hacker News and other sites is a no go in China. Ask Jack Ma about how well things go when you go against the China's CCP.
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Whataboutism does not a valid argument make.
At least it's not institutionalized torture like in Xinjang or the concentration camps used to "re-educate" Falun Gong practitioners.
Nah, just a way to keep pentagon people and those that depend on their military contracts employeed.
>At least it's not institutionalized torture like in Xinjang
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/09/prison-punishment-violence-humiliation https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/09/prison...
>concentration camps used to "re-educate" Falun Gong practitioners
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/survivors-troubled-teen-industry-share-115753481.html https://uk.news.yahoo.com/survivors-troubled-teen-industry-s...
Although tbh the American way to "re-educate" religious fundamentalists usually means executing them from a safe distance.
It _appears_ that China is worse, but once you start looking at actual data instead of the rhetoric found in media, you'll quickly find that it simply doesn't check out.
Every single one of your points applies at least as much, if not more, to US - from human rights violations, to “saber rattling”, to spyware and backdoors. I could also add forced labor (https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/us-prison-workers-low-wages-exploited https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/us-prison-wo...), world’s highest percentage of population in prisons, and protecting war criminals from justice (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre, where the proven murder of civilians was punished by three months in jail; but it’s a recurring motive, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes and follow the sources.)
So once again, how is China hostile, while the country that’s provably worse offender isn’t? Other than racism of course.
Others missed a few great US examples.
U2/SR71 spyplanes overflying other countries. This alone is considered "an act of war". what would the US do if someone flew over their country on spy missions?
Then there is the absolute rampant lying about things.
U2 is shot down, US president is told that should this happen the pilot wont survive. Surprise, Gary Powers is alive and the USSR exposes the US lies to the world.
"weather aircraft drifted off course" indeed.
Ron Reagan and his "Evil Empire" speech. USSR shoots down a commercial flight and Ron leverages this to the max.
US shoots down a commercial aircraft, refuses to accept responsibility and eventually caves under international pressure, offering peanuts in compensation?
You can somewhat see what took place with the USSR's issue. The US was flying spy missions right at their doorstep. They felt this was another spy plane and shot it down.
Why exactly did a US warship go into another countries waters and shoot down a commercial aircraft?
The "puppet governments" and overthrowing democratically elected governments alone could fill several books.
Lastly, Iran/Contra. Lets deal drugs and guns??
Nice deflection, friend.
Yes, the USA is an aggressive and imperialist power with more than a few atrocities to its name.
However, this is not "how bad is China relative to the United States," but rather "how bad is China on an absolute scale."
> Among more recent events are the human rights violations, the increasing saber-rattling about Taiwan, the increasing joint military exercises with Russia
that's not hostility towards the west, that's simply China defending their interests, which is their prerogative.
Taiwan is still formally and technically part of greater China, human rights violations are not rare in (an by) the US military and non military personel, do you consider Ukrainian soldiers training in the UK [1] as the UK being hostile towards China?
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/world/europe/ukraine-military-britain.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/world/europe/ukraine-mili...
The island of Taiwan is part of the People's Republic of China, and they will decide what to do with it and when. What Americans think, want or say is irrelevant.
Not just that. China claims a large part of the international sea by drawing a bullsh*t line on the map, bullies other countries in the area: Japan, Philippine, Viet Name, Indonesia, Brunei, ...