[athinggoingon]

Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about…?") denotes in a pejorative sense a procedure in which a critical question or argument is not answered or discussed, but retorted with a critical counter-question which expresses a counter-accusation. From a logical and argumentative point of view it is considered a variant of the Tu-quoque pattern (Latin 'you too', term for a counter-accusation), which is a subtype of the Ad-hominem argument.

[ttymck]

I'm sorry, I don't follow. But I am interested in understanding if you could expand.

[imtringued]

"China sucks but what about the USA? I feel like it sucks too." - loose translation of the original comment.

[ttymck]

Oh I see. My intention wasn't to compare the two nations, but that I was surprised that people across the globe feel the same way about their government and politics and COVIDs influence on it.