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Anti-China Rhetoric Is Off the Charts in Western Media (thediplomat.com)

submitted 11 months ago by zephyreks@lemmy.ml to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Better tell that to literally every government on the planet, then.

Jailing dissidents is government oppression, but it's a type of government oppression that happens in every major government, democratic or not. Welcome to the real world.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago

This post was about China, not other countries. What China is doing is an atrocity and your whataboutism doesn't change that.