[danielheath]

> A post about Chinese torture camps makes an impression that torture camps are exclusively a Chinese thing.

Yes, to an audience who have read nothing else on the topic. The people here for this discussion are - by definition - people who read about and/or discuss these topics.

As a discussion thread for a news story (and not, say a textbook for an introduction to world powers and their deeds), discussing tangentially-related events draws diminishing returns.

"Torture camps are bad" is an essay you could ask a high-schooler to write. It's neither news nor informative.

"We are obtaining new evidence that the government of China is running torture camps" manages to be both news and informative.

"US government runs torture camps" is neither news (has something changed?) nor informative (it's been well known for years).

Publishing a comparative treatment of national misdeeds might also manage to be informative; statistical modeling of the harms done by various governments, for instance.