[vonquant]

Oh let me see, perhaps it has something to do with China being a one-party state with a ripe history of human rights atrocities and pervasive censorship.

Just look at SARS for an example of where trusting the official information from China made for a terrible idea.

[lucian1900]

And the US isn't a two party state with a ripe history (and present) of human rights atrocities and pervasive censorship?

Your view of China is almost entirely defined by US media, owned by capitalists. Perhaps consider they have an incentive to lie.

[marcosdumay]

There is a discontinuity there. A two party system is many orders of magnitude more reliable than a single party system, even if not ideal.

The US also has a much smaller history of hiding facts and persecuting the Press.

[lucian1900]

The two US parties are almost completely identical in behaviour. They have both continued brutal imperialism. They have both demonised countries that opposed said imperialism and persecuted the few in the US (press or otherwise) that were also opposed.

There is also no democratic control of the people over the US press, it's privately owned by only a few. The press has an extremely long history of hiding and fabricating facts, particularly against anti-capitalists.

More importantly, there is no democratic control over production and distribution. It is almost all privately owned.

The US's history of brutality and manipulation is unmatched.