"Chinas' goal is to build a happy society that is more affluent and happy than the US but has less freedoms."
It seems this is the case if you're Han Chinese only.
It seems this is the case if you're Han Chinese only.
Race is just a correlation, the causative factor is the culture associated with the race as practitioners of falun gong (who include the Han people) are also targeted.
In America, I have the freedom to brainwash people into following Scientology, in China such cults cannot exist. The line of demarcation is blurry, when does a religion become a cult? How is the fantasmic stories of walking on water or coming back from the dead in christianity make it any different from scientology?
When China sees serfdom as part of the Tibetan culture do they label it backwards and raze the entire belief system or do they leave it alone? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/feb/10/tibet-...
This also happens in America today
Are you saying that the Chinese government force abortion by culture and behavior [1], not by race?
[1]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7g8m8/forced-abortions-a...
In general if you live in the big cities but follow the cultural standards you will not be touched regardless of your race.
Not only non-Han Chinese face oppression (Uyghurs, Tibetans, Mongolians [1]), but lower class Han are also not well treated [2].
Point is, we should not judge the progress of China based on its most affluent class. Things are much more messy behind the cover.
And when we try to see the full picture, China is less and less a role model for others to follow.
[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/world/asia/china-protest-...