[emodendroket]

Many Americans have no idea Puerto Rico is part of the United States or that we bombed the island when an independence movement broke out; I'm not really sure you can attribute that to their iron grip on the media. Or educated people are baffled as to why North Korea would distrust them. Honestly, you could make a lot of these criticisms of any place.

[seanmcdirmid]

Sure, but they are mostly aware of the hurricane that happened in Puerto Rico and the USA was somehow negligent even if they didn’t know PR was actually a territory.

China has third-world media problems; e.g. how do we get these people not to show there reverence for Xi so strongly. The USA has first world media problems (Trump says CNN is fake news). The same with education and an awareness of world affairs. They aren’t equivalent at all, they are on totally different scales.