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by dave_sullivan 3378 days ago
Boo. False equivalency. Can we acknowledge that this is the favored argument by authoritarian propaganda machines and it's a baseless distraction? It has no place here.

More: http://www.npr.org/2017/03/17/520435073/trump-embraces-one-o...

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The article explicitly cites Nye and how American concept of soft power is being adopted by authoritarian regimes.
Huh? Not sure how that's relevant to you trying to use a garbage argument in response to very valid criticisms of modern China. Everything PP said was accurate, US doesn't come close by comparison, your observation is manipulatively off base.