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Sorry, but this is blatant whataboutism. Guantanamo Bay is a tragedy and deserves all the criticism it gets, but:

- At its height, Guantanamo Bay had about 250 prisoners. It now has 41.

- Camps in Xinjiang are estimated to hold "hundreds of thousands" of prisoners.

They are not on the same scale whatsoever. If you wanted to make a comparison to American systems of imprisonment, the actual prison system itself is a far better (worse) example.

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For starters, did I condone any of them being justified? Me making a statement about Gauntanamo Bay does not automatically imply I am defending the re-education camps in China.

So, here is a very basic lesson in maths: If a => b is true, it does not necessarily mean b => a is true.

Besides, does America not also have one of the highest incarceration rates in the worlds? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...

I mean China has a lot of catching up with America (just order by per 100,000): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

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