[chipdart]

> That is a pretty dark view on almost 1/5th of humanity

The CCP does not represent 1/5 of humanity.

> and a nation with a track record of giving the world important innovations: paper making, silk, porcelain, gunpowder and compass to name the few.

Utter nonsense. It wasn't the CCP who invented gunpowder.

If you are willing to fool yourself into believing that somehow all developments that ever originated by people who live in a geographic region are due to the ruling regime, you'd have a far better case in praising Taiwan.

[rat9988]

You changed china with ccp for both statements and then corrected them.

[wasabi991011]

When in the context of geopolitics, "China" refers to the geopolitical entity, not the people that make up the geopolitical entity, nor a different geopolitical entity that existed thousands of years ago (that also, from what I understand, had little to do with the invention of gunpowder).