It’s been nice to see ordinary Americans open up to life in China but everyone is acting blind to their censorship. Makes me thankful for the fediverse and being able to self host my own instance.

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I don’t know what you mean by all bad. How’re you labeling all three of those countries?

Do you have your head under a rock? Over the past few years China has been putting the Uighur people in concentration camps while Russia has been invading and genociding Ukrainians.

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The westerner that has never been to China and doesn’t speak a word of mandarin is gonna lecture us on China.

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They always do. Aside from guns, the single identifying feature of American culture is the “instant expert”.

They read a newspaper article on a topic and they’re instant experts. Someone says something they don’t like and they’ll make an incompetent Google search and become instant experts.

If I had 一元人民币 for every time some American instant expert told me how things really are where I live I could retire tomorrow.

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ZENZ ZENZ ZENZ

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No, China hasn’t. There has been no evidence.

We know how much information should get out of a state with complete control over the flow of information, via Palestine and Ukraine’s respective genocides. Instead of any of that, we have vague, contradictory accusations from Islamic extremists. The uighur people control Xinjiang, and thanks to investment it’s flourishing.

China killed Islamic extremism via education and improving material conditions; that’s not acceptable to the West, so they made up a story.

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Neither the knee-jerk Americans nor you are being honest.

You don’t serve a cause, whatever cause it may be, by lying.

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You’re right, hence why I encourage people to visit Xinjiang and try to find these millions-strong concentration camps or just, you know, talk to people from China, especially that region.

Besides a few people that lived most of their lives in the Middle East, not China, there are no witnesses or ‘victims’. And we all know who tends to recruit agents in the Middle East like they’re run by a evangelical death cult.

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No, because I don’t fall for the propaganda. I’ve met one of the NYT reporters on that and their sources were three Ugyhurs and trust me. I’m guessing you don’t speak Chinese and have zero knowledge of it besides MSN?

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His trusted source is a German man that doesn’t speak chinese, has never been to china and uses satellital pictures of buildings in construction as proof, like it is eyeopening how much media buzz someone as unserious as Adrian Zenz has only because he preached the “china bad” narrative.

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Sounds about right.

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