There are other historical parallels. Karl specializes in Chinese history and notes that these papers “resemble, in so many ways, forms of re-education, forms of self-criticism that were used repeatedly during various periods of political turmoil”. Xi Jinping’s government, for example, is fond of televising forced confessions from human rights activists in order to pre-empt international criticism and help shape a narrative.

Hey look I found the "China bad" in the article. Leave it to a western liberal to draw a parallel between putting someone through a struggle session over being counter revolutionary and not being a genocidal fascist racist.