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Very convenient of you to not include what China is doing in Nepal, Hong Kong, Xinjiang and on the Indian border.

And if China hadn’t stuck its dick into the Korean War, the whole peninsula would probably be as prosperous as the south.

Let's pretend US sanctions have had nothing to do with N Korean prosperity.

Very convenient for you to ignore the question and sidestep it.

What a weird question, does that include Chiang Kai-shek? or limited to the "communist" party?

You don't remember the '79 Vietnam War? The Chinese one where they invaded North Vietnam with thousands tanks and 10s of thousands on both sides died over the course of months. Relations normalized in '91.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War

China supported the Khmer Rouge, maybe Pol Pot is memorable?

I asked a specific question, what’s the number, and compare it to the answer for the US.

They mostly just massacre their own.

Between 5-7, depending on how you count. Although that type of whataboutism is entirely irrelevant to a space arms race.

It started as a comparison, it’s a question of hypocrisy. Very convenient to be able to invent labels like “whataboutism” to stop a comparison when your side starts it but then someone else asks “what about your own history?”