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>>persecute anyone they deem a threat to their power

USA does this as well, its just critique of government by a single person is not a credible threat to the US government. Mind you, all these "freedom fighters" ended up being financed by the USAID, so literally were foreign agents.

Whistleblowers get the whole book thrown at them, Snowden and Assange got nearly killed by CIA, Iraq files whistleblowers get book thrown at them.

USA is just as bad empire as China, and probably even worse, because of the millions of murdered innocent people over the decades of forever wars.

China has no such track record

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You've cited a small number of people including radicals like Assange who believe basically all information should be public, no matter the possible damage. That doesn't establish a pattern like the many political prisoners China has and continues to imprison.

> millions of murdered innocent people [...] China has no such track record

No, China, since becoming Communist, has specialized more in murdering their own citizens.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/help-me-understand-all-the-...

Anyway, thanks for providing a great exhibit of exactly what I was talking about: either CCP propaganda, or hopelessly naïve Westerner bent on believing in these two nations' moral equivalency. This is the same level of honest discourse we'll see heavily promoted on TikTok when China invades Taiwan in a few months or years, saying "China and the US are the same, so who cares if they take over a democracy by force."

[slt2021]

China had civil war and independence war after centuries of foreign occupation.

Do you also think US civil war was Americans genociding own citizens?

I dont care what China does to chinese, I care more about what America does to other countries like in the middle east or Afghanistan