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The point is to illustrate that this article is serving an anti-China narrative, which has been motivated over several years and decades by right-wing politicians looking for a palatable enemy to unite behind (replacing Russia in this role)

China can and does do bad things, but why do we read about that more often and with more emphasis than Western countries doing bad things?

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The issue with this is it requires us to look into people's souls and know their motivations. We can't do that. Maybe this is being reported because it serves someone's narrative. Maybe it's honestly because it's bad. Either way it is bad, so who cares why, action should be taken.

Why do we focus on China? Because they're usually doing worse things, and on larger scales, than the West.

They haven't committed crimes on the scale of the invasions of Vietnam and Iraq in the last 50 years.

They did physically invade Vietnam in 1979, whereas the US got involved on one side of a civil war, and never invaded North or South Vietnam. Great Leap Forward induced famines also killed tens of millions of people.

The US is bombing 6 or 7 countries right now. It’s not China who is murdering civilians en masse.

The US simply invaded Vietnam. It was not the case of "getting involved in a civil war". The Chinese invasion was miniscule in comparison.

Yea the cultural revolution where the Red Guard roved the country murdering millions of innocent people was 52 years ago so you are technically right. Get this: they even engaged in cannibalism as an ideological purity test! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi_Massacre

I'm not gonna deny that happened. What's interesting is how the US downplayed Chinese violations of human rights, which were way worse than Soviet violations at the time (70's) for political reasons. The Soviets were the chief enemy back then.

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