Board Thread:Political Discussion/@comment-45820401-20200610191325/@comment-45820401-20200612193829

It is true that the United States has done and does MANY things badly. Things that caused a lot of suffering, and many of them just for your political interest.

The United States has intervened many times in the world, causing suffering and sometimes it was only for its own political interests. The United States makes mistakes and does very bad things. But if it weren't for the United States, much of the world would have fallen into the grip of communism and the Soviet Union. This would have spread its disturbing ideology freely, would have caused more deaths than it already did, would fill the world with gulags and would impose a policy that would lead to widespread poverty and oppression. Thanks to the United States, the world has not collapsed.

It is true that some Uighurs were recruited by ISIS. ISIS is one of the most horrible and hateful groups that humanity has ever seen. Fortunately, these were defeated by the Kurds, supported by the United States. The United States defeated the Islamic State and with them these horrible Uighur radicals!

However, the majority of the Uighur movement is above all nationalist and only afterwards is it Islamic. Concentration camps with schools, festivals and comfort? Do you believe that version of the story told by the Chinese regime? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMkHcZ5IwjU

You cannot tell me that the governments of Syria, Venezuela and North Korea do not oppress the people themselves! Nicolas Maduro, the Assad and Kim dynasty are and were horrible dictators!

It is true that Tibet was very poor but it was independent! But China violated international law and invaded! It brought wealth to an impoverished region, but it also took millions of Han Chinese to literally "kill" Tibetan culture. The boy chosen as the next Dalai Lama was kidnapped by the Chinese authorities and never seen again. Chinese censorship is worse than ever and extends beyond Tibet. So what happened to the thousands of Tibetans who are currently demonstrating against Chinese oppression in Tibet? Did you forget this?

What about the protests in Hong Kong? Or do you also think that demonstrations by millions of people are controlled by the United States? Or do you also think that the overwhelming victory of Hong Kong's anti-China parties was made by the United States?

China’s vast pool of cheap labour, its absence of social or environmental restraints means it can undercut the rest of the world. Its unfair practices are killing jobs around the globe. Failure to protect intellectual property rights means competitors are ripped off and consumers dumped with substandard counterfeits. China’s insatiable demand is pushing up world prices for oil and minerals. The world’s biggest polluter is also destroying the planet, its carbon emissions are up 171 percent since 2000.

China uses its immense economic power to get other countries hooked on handouts. Chinese aid and investment has secured an unhealthy hold over nations across Africa, enabling it to harvest their mineral resources and exploit their workforces. Its grip on $1.261 trillion of American debt looms over the US economy. Now colonization by stealth has reached the Europe, as China grabs Portuguese power companies, Greek ports and whatever other bargains appear in the euro-crisis fire sale.

China is a direct threat to European and US hopes of spreading democratic values. Beyond its repression of domestic dissidence, China has been a consistent barrier to UN efforts to curtail despotism from Myanmar to Sudan and Syria. Beijing’s Africa policy runs counter to EU attempts to link development to human rights. China protects and funds corrupt, authoritarian and oppressive countries, such as North Korea, Venezuela and others.

The United States is not going to fall anytime soon. Do you really want the new world superpower to be an authoritarian and horrible state?

You can ignore the oppression that China is defending. You can ignore that China ignores human rights. You can ignore that China is an authoritarian dictatorship and not a liberal democracy. You can ignore that China causes instability in the world, threatening Taiwan, ignoring the claims of the people of Taiwan for independence. You can ignore that China is arresting dozens of countries for a credit and debit trap. You can ignore that China exploits its people for their economic growth. You can ignore that China is making opponents of the regime disappear. You can ignore that China censors the media. You can ignore that China is the bastion of authoritarianism in the world (supporting corrupt, authoritarian and horrible countries), but you cannot ignore that China is dangerous and needs to be stopped.