Apple is still making products in Hitler's Germany because the prices are too good to say no. Just because they aren't using the concentration camp labor doesn't mean they aren't complicit in the crimes. They're in the same boat as Fanta from my perspective. Doing business with murderers because money is more important than human lives.
However we also shouldn't trivialize Chinese atrocities:
A number of the things that happens there will hopefully get into the history wall of shame as soon as we dare challenge it.
We are however in a rough place right now IMO:
- US is weak and has little (but still significant) moral edge.
- US has a military edge but a full scale conflict will >70% become really messy (think nuclear)
- China has a number of other countries (and influential persons) around the world by the b*lls.
- China has an advantage on manufacturing and logistics
Anyone who wants to fix this
- either needs a brilliant idea and probably lots of luck
- or some serious skills in politics (to get local support for taking correct actions with the necessary firmness)
How on Earth, can you even try to gaslight us saying China concentration camps are "nicer" than the Nazis?
A citizen of any regime, from the best to the most brutal, can criticize China and it does not detract from the argument at all. It’s not hypocritical because citizens are not the government; and, even if it was directly from the government and was hypocritical, the substance of the argument does not change. Calling someone a hypocrite is just an ad hominem.