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> CCP as it's now was created after reforms by Deng.

Their policies changed, so they're no longer responsible for their own history?

The current generations are not responsible for historical things they didn't order or did.

As for the country as an abstract in general, sure. As much as other countries are responsible for their own history.

I don't think most folks I know in the US are willing to touch the historical wrongs (genocide and slavery) with a 3.048M pole.

Nothing the US has done is covered up the way the CCP has covered up the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

> I don't think most folks I know in the US are willing to touch the historical wrongs (genocide and slavery) with a 3.048M pole.

I hear those discussed quite often in the US. Someone is obviously willing. And more importantly, it's legal.