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How can you expect to see any difference if you ignore the difference?

> few dozens of their opponents

Why did you ignore the censored/oppressed billions of people living there?

Censoring is a lesser crime than murdering - the blood on the hands of the US, Israel and India far exceeds that of any so-called authoritarians.

It's US, not China that operates the world's largest prison system - you should ask prisoners if they rather be free subjects of an authoritarian regime or prisoners with due process in a democracy.

I'm pretty sure at least a third of the Chinese (more than the population of the US), aren't looking at the US right now and saying, "Yeah, we want some of that."

I'm pretty sure that at least a third of the Chinese can't look at the US right now in any honest way -- they are behind the biggest content-filtering firewall in the world, and are fed a ton of propaganda from the state (not that we're not). I doubt most Chinese have a properly informed opinion of the United States.

But yet, it's Americans who in large numbers want to go to war with China over an island next to it, or worst, over an ideology they don't understand.

Americans and other English-only countries are the most disinformed people in the world.

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