Except in Hong Kong. Obviously liberty for their citizens is the one to pick so the US easily comes out on top.
However if you pick percentage of their population they imprison or civilian death toll in expansionist/imperialist conflicts? Or scope of global assassination programs?
But a point by point comparison is not really the point here is it? Obviously the American system is more capable of checks and balances than the Chinese system. That arguably makes the massive failures to use them worse. We disagree on what the word "trying" means regarding a state's actions I suppose. That seems fair, it's a fuzzy idea in this context.
However if you pick percentage of their population they imprison or civilian death toll in expansionist/imperialist conflicts? Or scope of global assassination programs?
But a point by point comparison is not really the point here is it? Obviously the American system is more capable of checks and balances than the Chinese system. That arguably makes the massive failures to use them worse. We disagree on what the word "trying" means regarding a state's actions I suppose. That seems fair, it's a fuzzy idea in this context.