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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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LV-426 ◴[] No.15994496[source]
Leaving Tiananmen Square aside - since nobody can disagree it was a terrible, indefensible crime - can you explain further how you think China is threatening democracy and freedom "worldwide"?

They're certainly a threat in Hong Kong, where they have a degree of control and influence, but how and where else?

While they lay claim to Taiwan, what harm do you think they are going to cause to South Korea and why would they even think of something as insane as enabling North Korea to strike Tokyo or Los Angeles (or anywhere else) with nuclear weapons?

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mutteraloo ◴[] No.15994616[source]
they prop up dictatorships in Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, Burma, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Venezuela
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1. rorykoehler ◴[] No.15994816[source]
America and the UK have a track record of propping up plenty of dictatorships too which is fairly odd for supposed democratic ideologues.
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2. jbooth ◴[] No.15994906[source]
It's not whataboutism to point out that every great power, for thousands of years, has done that same thing.

Why's it worse in this case?

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3. yorwba ◴[] No.15994917{3}[source]
It's not worse. It's just bad and it'd be better if they'd stop. The US too.
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4. cr1895 ◴[] No.15995159[source]
>The adults

Drop the condescension here.

5. buttcoinslol ◴[] No.15995953{4}[source]
There's a lot of bad stuff that isn't going away. Global powers projecting that power in various ways is one of them. It would absolutely be better if the US/China didn't do the bad things they have done. Good luck stopping that from happening in the future, it's been happening since civilization was created.