[iforgotpassword]

Ah yes, a topic about China and the top comment is some American spreading the usual fud about how China is the pure evil, like it has been engrained into their brains from the day they were born. Sad to see hn is no better than reddit these days.

[xir78]

You should actually go to China, go to Taiwan too to compare, and talk to people who had to leave and were granted refuge status in Canada. You might have a more nuanced understanding than “American fud”.

Normally fud isn’t well documented: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong

[coldtea]

Especially since throughout the 20th and 21st century, it wasn't China who was a constant global cop/aggressor, invading countries, spreading "democracy", meddling in Latin America, Asia, Middle East AND Europe, and so on...

[dash2]

China did not have the power before. Who knows how it will act when it does? It's treatment of Tibet, invaded in 1948 and still occupied, is not encouraging.

[oblio]

It used to have this power and it turned all the countries in its neighborhood into tributary states. Which, all things considered, was not that bad, since it was overall a peaceful and stable relationship.

Hard to say how Communist China as a superpower will differ from Imperial China, though...

[eyeinthepyramid]

If you look at how Communist China treats minority populations as a blueprint, it's not encouraging.

[jcranmer]

> Especially since throughout the 20th and 21st century, it wasn't China who was a constant global cop/aggressor, invading countries, spreading "democracy", meddling in Latin America, Asia, Middle East AND Europe, and so on...

Korea and Vietnam would beg to differ.

[freeflight]

> Korea and Vietnam would beg to differ.

It takes two to tango. In that regard, it feels kinda dishonest to frame these conflicts solely as "Evil China/Communism doing its thing".

[bluntfang]

Korea and Vietnam are pretty regional, not global, but I think your point still stands.