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As an American, I can say that my government sucks for invading Iraq and Afghanistan and face no repercussions. I did so before those wars and have done so repeatedly since.
As a Chinese citizen, I can be arrested for singing a song about Hong Kong. Or saying that Tibet isn't China, or that Taiwan should be left alone. God forbid I ask about what's happening in Xinjiang. Or what happened in Beijing in 1989, or why the Great Leap Forward resulted in so many deaths of my countrymen. Or practicing Flaun Dafa, or whatever else.
Nobody is saying the US is perfect: the US has its problems, we can and should be better. But China is never honest about their shit and punishes people who are. China's markedly worse than the US.
They let you complain about Iraq and Afghanistan because your complaints are irrelevant. You have no power to change policy.
I have free speech rights under the constitution. That's not the case in China.
Don't shift the goal posts - there's a huge difference between the countries, and China is strictly worse.
Free speech in the US is a giant lie that you guys tell to yourselves. People can be stripped of their US citizenships and deported even as a legally naturalized US citizen for expressing pro communist views, look it up. How is this free speech?