Really?
Tell that to those in Nepal ... or the Uighurs ... let alone those in Hong Kong ... how about the Rep of China?
There is so much disinformation about the level of repression, aggression and oppression inherent in today's
China ...
Tiananmen square ....
Covid 19 dissimulation ... deny its existence while you capture the market of protective masks ... gel ... 650K deaths ... counts rising.
Get a grip ... they plan to control the world and will subjugate any who are vulnerable ...
Neville Chamberlain or the defrocked Winston Churchill ... I will stand with the latter.
You are so wrong ... dont have the vocabulary to suggest how so ...
BTW ... the west sacrificed it's young to save Europe and the East ... Phillipines the whole Eastern rim Thailand included... from fascism and Eastern Imperialism.
You struck a nerve ... that runs deep ... so much dissimulation ... in my youth we called it bullshit ... smells the same today.
Here we go...:
Some of the nations and areas that western countries have destroyed or caused causualties in the hundreds of thousands:
- Libya (Only ten years ago one of the most prosperous countries in Africa, now a centre for slave trade and immigration to Europe)
- Iraq
- Afghanistan (19 years and counting)
- Cambodia (The bombing that paved the way for Pol Pot)
- Laos (People still die from unexploded American bombs)
- Vietnam
- Philippines (Several hundred thousand were killed during American colonialism)
- North Korea (3 million killed, and all civil infrastructure destroyed according to American figures)
- Iran (Was a democratic country until the UK and the US decided that a dictator worked better for them)
- India (Too much to list)
- Congo (10 million+)
... and the list goes on.
Then there are places like Diego Garcia, where the population was simply removed to make space for an American military base. They were moved to Chagos Archipelago, Mauritius or Seychelles where they still live in poverty.
The list of European colonies in Africa is endless, too many to mention. Congo is listed above. Let's just say that their resources have been stolen on a continuous basis for centuries, without leaving much, if anything, to the locals other than slave labour. Latin America... endless American supported coups, few if any to the better. Cuba, sanctioned for 60 years for no good reason whatsoever.
Then there's support for brutal dictators worldwide. President Suharto killed 230,000 people in in East Timor alone, with active American, British and Australian support. How many he killed in the rest of Indonesia, we'll never know.
Yes, China is an authoritarian country, and has been so for more than 2,000 years. There's a long list of human abuse and discrimination, and there are environmental crimes. I don't like their business practices to say the least. I meet them as competitors every week of the year, and it's a challenge, but:
- They don't bomb or in other ways kill people in other countries
- They have 1 - one - military base outside their own border compared to America's more than 800
- They have illegally annexed islands in the South China Sea, but USA has annexed islands for military use all over the Pacific Ocean
- They have never used nuclear weapons at war
- Apart from a minor incident with Vietnam 40 years ago, they haven't attacked another nation for hundreds of years
No, I don't like China much, and I don't go there, but my criticism will always be based on facts and realities, not on headlines, and it must be seen in a context. Western countries are still running their imperialist agendas, although in other ways than a hundred years ago. Until that stops, my right to criticise China is limited.