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I generally call democratic countries "countries" and I occasionally call undemocratic countries "regimes".
Yes, most (all?) Western countries are democracies. Yes, China is not a democracy. What is your point?
Name something bad you think China has done, the US has done that but 10x worse
Harvesting prisoner organs to give to the wealthy/party members.
Executing people for things they've said.
Quartering party loyalists in Uyghur homes, particularly the forced co-habitation of Uyghur women with male party loyalists.
The list goes on because China is a totalitarian dictatorship, and the US, for all its many, many, faults, is not.
The main difference is that the US is mostly trying to be better, and China is actively embracing the crimes against humanity.
ah yes, the old Falun Gong lie
patriot act, red scare, CIA killing journalists etc
the entire united States of America is built on stolen land
As I said.
1; https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2021/07/08/united-nations-concerned-about-organ-harvesting-in-china/
2; Some buzzwords that you don't seem to understand the meaning of, with some conspiracy theory nonsense thrown in.
3; yup. US history is full of horrible shit, but we're trying to be better. Well most of us. China is not trying to be better.
The US once engaged in genocide, and China is using that past to justify several ongoing genocides.
The US has often failed to fully live up to its ideals of freedom and equality, and China uses that to justify not having any freedom or equality.
The US holds freedom of speech as sacrosanct, often to the point where harmful ideologies are given platforms, China uses secret trials to jail people for the study of their own heritage.
The point being, China fucking sucks for anyone who isn't a rich, ethnic Han, flawlessly loyal to the CCP.
Ok Biden bot, the red scare (a documented historical fact) is now a conspiracy I guess
The only one arguing against documented historical facts and ongoing reality in this thread is you. The PRC isn't some magical place where people don't do awful shit to each other. They're just really good at covering it up.