[foogazi]

Seems like a “whatabout” comment - lame

[MichaelZuo]

Okay if that's true, then write something better and more productive?

It doesn't make sense to write something even worse and closer to random noise.

[foogazi]

Why does it matter if other regimes have had disappearances in their past ?

How is that relevant to the fact the problematic officials, billionaires, athletes disappear in Xi’s government ?

The problem is the lack of transparency, hence the comparison to Stalinist purges.

[MichaelZuo]

If you genuinely want to know, shouldn't you be asking 'foldr' of why it's relevant to raise the comparison?

I can't speak on their behalf since I am a different person.

See their parent comment:

> In a Western democracy, government ministers don't just go missing without any official explanation for their disappearance. (I am not suggesting that such official explanations are always true, but they at least exist.)