Xi Jinping is fighting a new enemy – Genghis Khan

That's the same anywhere. When you are playing the "rule of law" game, you look at the tools available - laws written - and rationalize how what you want to do conforms to it.

And whether the other folks can make them abide by it.

Take Trump, for example. He seems to be an authoritarian at heart, and has several times tried to be. The difference is that the court system didn't roll over for him, and society (and the power structure) followed the courts rather than Trump. So even if Trump wanted to be a dictator for life, the levers of power existed independent of him, and were enough for his opposition to prevent him from doing so.

In China, the levers of power are all held by the Communist Party. And the Communist Party will do whatever Xi says. There are no non-Xi-controlled levers of power for any opposition to use to block what he wants. (I suppose there may be limits to how far the Communist Party will follow him. And there may be limits on how far the people can be pushed before they will revolt against the Communist Party. But those are the only limits on his power. No independent judiciary, no opposition party that controls one house of the legislature.)

I don't agree with the dismissive attitude GP portrays, but in the USA vs. China situation we appear to be stepping in as a planet, I can't help but recognize that there's something going on, some war for the minds via public influence campgains, and it's probably not being done by only one side of the equation.

In this way, I'm a bit disappointed that GP is being down-voted to oblivion: how can we see dissenting voices if they're being hidden because they come across as shocking/incendiary? We say that HN isn't a platform to discuss politics, and yet "Xi Jinping is fighting a new enemy – Genghis Khan" is clearly a political piece. Of course all this would be easier to discuss if GP wasn't attacking everyone.

Anyways, food for thoughts.

The ugyhur nonsense is exactly the same nonsense we had in the mid 2000s about the falun gong. The same exact debunked nonsense. I know because I believed it.

> I am very curious what issues regarding China you do think are legitimate.

You know REAL issues? Trade deficit? Environmental protection? Peacefully reintegrating taiwan into china? North Korea? Not bullshit about "stolen organs", this nonsense about genghis khan, etc.

The only thing missing is this go around are the fucking dams. In the mid 2000s, propagandists, similar to the ones working at bitterwinter, were telling everyone that china's dams were about to collapse. Something about poor construction, corruption, incompetence. The whole of china was going to be flooded and china was going to collapse. Boy was I convinced and boy was I duped.

When congress is united on something, you know it's wrong. When john oliver does a piece on it, you know there is something not right about it. That the first casualty of war is the truth and we are in a trade war means almost everything about china is probably a lie. And if you notice that this is just a rerun of what we going 20 years ago, then it all makes sense.