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China is probably nowhere near as batshit crazy as the US, at least not openly and as shamelessly.
At least china tries to cover up its genocide of Uyghurs and imperialism. But it's also not a haven. It's going after Taiwan.
The Alberta separatism thing has influenced my opinion on the Xinjiang Uyghur situation. Providing a decent standard of living for >1,400,000,000 is a big undertaking, no one in human history has come even close. Absolute individual liberty sounds good on the surface, but at what cost?
If you have a small, but very disruptive minority of your population who have made it clear that they would rather tear your country apart than integrate into your established social fabric and norms, what do you do? Isolation and re-education seems like a reasonable, and humane option. Extermination or expulsion would be much easier solutions; investing the time and resources to improve material conditions while also giving people the opportunity to be rehabilitated seems like a preferable alternative.
I see a lot of people very critical of China's Sinicization campaign; but at the same time I also see growing instability in most other culturally diverse nations. Ideological extremism is on the rise, anti-immigration sentiment plagues many other developed nations, and I have yet to see systems or proposed solutions which I think can scale to the extent required for a population of 50,000,000... Let alone billions.
Calling China imperialist for an invasion that hasn't even happened is hilarious.
What's hilarious is your failed attempt at a counterargument. Strawman, really.
I didn't say China is imperialist because it's planning to invade Taiwan.
China has historically been, and remains imperialist.
Well what in the hell else could you be referring to by calling China imperialist? They haven't spent decades invading and destroying countries thousands of miles away, in fact they suffered a century of subjugation at the hands of western powers and Japan.
Maybe the genocide of the Uyghur people, for one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_imperialism
Just because they suffered humiliation by another country doesn't make them innocent.