China really dropping the ball on this one.
Chinese officials have named women, disclosed what they say is private medical data and information on the women’s fertility, and accused some of having affairs and one of having a sexually transmitted disease. The officials said the information was evidence of bad character, invalidating the women’s accounts of abuse in Xinjiang.
This on the heels after last month referring to Uighur women as baby making machines.
China has to work on their PR game.
All actions and statements refrenced come from the Chinese government and members of the single Communist Party of China.
So, yes. China is not a monolithic entity, but for these purposes the word "China" refers to the government. Given the lack of conflict between officials, we can analyse the Chinese government as a monolithic entity.
Not when it comes to individual statements from specific people within the government, basically no fucking government I've seen outside of China is treated like this in reasonable debates and discussions, maybe with the exception of the DPRK where instead of everything being the monolithic "China" its the monolithic Kim Jong Un.
People here talk like that all the time. America does this, America does that. Never "This one section of an organisation did this without the knowledge of Congress or other government employees." Statements from official government spokespeople at official press conferences are always considered as statements from the state, not the spokesman.
And most governments don't follow Democratic Centralism. You can find someone in the government criticizing everything they do or say. Show me the Chinese politicians condemning these statemets.
I disagree, while it happens sometimes its nowhere near the norm and usually only happens when the government as an entity does or says something rather than an individual member of the government doing so.