Okay, so background: I'm your average pro-gun fuck-the-police, fuck-trump zoomer honed by years of unsupervised internet access and I've just discovered this community and started lurking for a while. But I still hold extremely negative views on China, which I still think are justified.

"Which views?" I'll throw them out real quick: child labor! internet censorship! media censorship! anti-LGBTQ! uygher genocide? positive and pro war relations with russia! (because fuck putin)

So I get really confused anytime I see people expressing pro-China sentiments. Have I been spoonfed by the media or are some of these points actually justified?

    • CarmineCatboy [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      a more direct example is kashmir. yeah china could have gone the american route and bombed half of the muslim world. or it could have gone india's route and actually suck at dealing with the territories most vulnerable to extremism.

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      If your measure for if they worked is “did it reduce terrorist attacks” it was quite effective. But also the re-education centers were only part of the program, so who can say what was responsible.