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mutteraloo ◴[] No.15994264[source]
Lest we forget, this is still the same government that mowed down 10,000 innocent lives, that still runs China today. They've gotten better at hiding behind marketing, propaganda, and strong arming other countries, but they're still ruled by a small, powerful group of elders that control every aspects of Chinese people's lives.

It's sad that we keep feeding this dangerous psychopath which threatens democracy and freedom worldwide. This psychopath will eventually cause harm to a few countries (Taiwan, South Korea) when said and done, maybe enable North Korea to strike a few nuclear missiles into Los Angeles or Tokyo, who knows.

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Dolores12 ◴[] No.15994438[source]
China wouldn't become as what it is today if they didn't do it. There could not be economic growth during political instability. Life of a billion+ people is now better and in hindsight i guess it was worth it.
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1. jdavis703 ◴[] No.15994470[source]
This is a point many forget when talking about China. People bring up Tiananmen Square and the one child policy to talk about how evil China is. And don't get me wrong, to a certain extent both actions were wrong. But the U.S. had its own bloody civil war where the country killed hundreds of thousands of it's former citizens, not to mention the ways in which land was stolen from indigenous people. These violent actions the U.S. took are one of the reasons the country (and even the world) are so wealthy today.
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2. aaron-lebo ◴[] No.15994738[source]
It's not very interesting to compare what the US was doing 160 years ago as justifications for why China still acts the way it does.

A civil war is very different than a massacre of innocent protesters.