• ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why is China included in your Axis of Evil? Their leadership might be shit right now but they haven’t started a war and nor are they anything like North Korea. I can visit Shanghai and have a lovely day but I can’t even legally go to Pyongyang, Tehran, or St. Petersburg right now.

    Not endorsing the CCP or anything. I condemn Hamas, etc. China just seems like it’s a few notches below the others.

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      1 year ago

      State run concentration/reeducation camps and almost complete lack of civil liberties sure seems fitting for the description ‘evil’.

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        1 year ago

        I’m not saying China is a force for good. I’m saying one could have a relatively normal life in China whereas North Korea is on a different level. China, despite its ambitions and obnoxiousness in the South China Sea, isn’t funding several proxy militias like Iran. It hasn’t invaded Mongolia or even Taiwan.

        What Modi and Hindu nationalists are doing in India is despicable. Four fifths of the world’s starving people are currently in Gaza. The Rohingya ethnic cleansing is ongoing. The Horn of Africa is a hot mess. There’s a lot of evil in the world right now. I wouldn’t put China 4th worst.