> since China is a dictatorship now.

When was China not a dictatorship? Isn’t the issue now that it has become something less of a benevolent dictatorship with regard to foreign travelers recently?

To be fair, any U.S government agency can very well torture you as well, as they can do an oopsie and send you over to somewhere middle in the woods in Poland.

The term whataboutism is also not exactly stable when it comes to politics because nobody plays fairly.

People staring at me 24/7 sounds really weird but I dunno about torture