I’m not defending China. But, as Harvey mentioned, there is moral equivalence with what we do. Think we’re that innocent? A lot of the stuff we do is not for human rights but as tools to destabilize and contain adversaries. [/quote]
That is exactly what Trump says. Glad you are in agreement with Trump.
No one is looking at the US as an altruistic angelic figure out to rid the world of injustice. But ultimately there is still free discussion in regard to US policy.
China on the other hand is doing everything within a black box, and all criticism are silenced. In addition, there’s a broad based national strategy to cook up nationalistic sentiment, such as the multiple WWII movies and TV shows generated every few months to fire up anti-Japanese nationalism.
The point here is whatever fault US has, China can be so much worse.
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I’ve been around the world enough to know that people want economic prosperity. China is doing a great job at economic development. [/quote]
So you saw economic prosperity for Uyghurs AND Han Chinese? Or you just saw the fancy new buildings used by the Han Chinese?
Again, given a vote, do you really think the Uyghurs will vote to stay under China’s rule? Again, if they are truly volunteering to stay as a member of the large family of ethnic groups under the leadership of CCP, why bother suppressing speech and lock away dissent? This is quite different compared to Californians wishing to stay as part of the union.
I know your answer, just give China another 200 years so the Uyghurs would be no more.
