[ch2521482]

Pity. Your worries actually come from not facts, but imagination. Just replace China with US in those sentences, much less worries will be arisen. Furthermore, there's no facts about China's threat emerging yet, compared to US/NATO's several military operations against quite a few sovereignties, and numerous military bases all over the world, which ensure their bombs to blow your bedroom wherever you are within 1 hour. Just be honest to your heart. You feel worries merely because they are yellow while you are white, and that uncomfortableness needs some time to be relieved.

[T-A]

No, we "feel worries" because "they" are an authoritarian party-state whose record on little things like freedom of speech, rule of law and human rights speaks for itself - and that's when it's dealing with its own citizens.

[dsfyu404ed]

Exactly. The US is willing to prop up some pretty brutal despots in the name of stability or access to resources. China is going to be as bad or worse. The actions of the Chinese government overseas are not nearly as constrained by the need of partial approval or lack of disapproval at home the way the actions of the US are. Someone like Pinochet wouldn't even give China pause.

[AlexB138]

Or perhaps people feel worried because they have a basic familiarity with history. China is run by a party of brutal authoritarian murderers with no regard for human rights. Their actions are antithetical to almost all Western Liberal values. Standing by your morals and refusing to play nice with a power hungry dictatorship has nothing to do with racism, regardless of your delusional whataboutism.

[pvaldes]

> China is run by a party of brutal authoritarian murderers with no regard for human rights.

You are totally right, and I will add just one word: Guantanamo.