LogFAQs > #942179158

I don't often agree with Zeus, but he's right to point out that (a) this is very late in the day to suddenly start focusing upon a lack of civil liberties and human rights in China, and (b) China is by no means the only -- or even the worst -- repressive regime anywhere in the world.

It seems this focus has narrowed on China only since the country has come to be viewed as a serious economic competitor to the US. No one throws around comparisons to Hitler's police state when it comes to anti-democratic, violently repressive regimes in small countries that aren't rivals to American power, no matter how brutally they treat their own citizens.

So what's really the problem here? Are you suddenly going all Amnesty International on China because this issue isn't really about human rights or democracy at all (since you show little to no interest in bad governance in other countries), but because it's really about staring down a rival superpower?

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