[SECProto]

Don't make a bomb joke in a US airport either!

They weren't comparing the US to China, they were explaining the flaws with American democracy/judiciary/media. The US is not a shining beacon to be held up in those categories compared to eg New Zealand/Germany (proportional representation), Denmark (judicial independence - the US doesn't crack the top ten[1]), or most of the rest of the West (see how far you have to scroll in press freedom rankings to find the US [2] - they have very weak media ownership rules, and while the media is free from a lot of govt limitations, it's free to be biased and partisan as hell)

Or just watch the opening from the Newsroom. [3]

[1] https://worldjusticeproject.org/sites/default/files/images/2...

[2] https://rsf.org/en/ranking_table

[3] https://youtu.be/VMqcLUqYqrs

[thefounder]

Offending a politician and making bomb jokes in airport are different things in US but not in China. This is pretty much my point.

Of course they were comparing US with China, implying the US has its own flaws and shouldn't lecture China. That's like saying US had its own racisim in 1930 so it had no right to interefere in Nazi Germany's internal policies.

US may not be a shining beacon of democratic values but it's a country that can do something about China's rise as a world super power(unlike Denmark, NZ or Germany).