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It's even infecting the wider lemmy network!
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Bold of you to assume I am American, did you not check the instance I am from ?
Yes, there are many lies about China, but don't get stuck in second opinion syndrome. China is both worse and better than you know.
The fact the government lies about China, while China is still bad behind the scenes, can both be true. During the cold war, both sides accused the other of being evil, and both were right.
Don't let anyone who puts a "communist" sticker on their own forehead fool you into supporting them.
This is just vague-posting unless you actually link some credible china-bad studies that aren't sourced from British or US state media.
University of Limpopo, South Africa, on China neocolonising Africa - https://www.jstor.org/stable/27159668. Is that credible enough for you?
If not, is there a source that you would call credible - and if it exists, what is it?
Where am I doing that?
This is literally whataboutism.
Was Leopold bloody years of terror vastly worse? Yes. Who is arguing with that? Is China benevolent and non exploitative? The African studies done by locals tend to say no.