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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

That doesn’t mean the Chinese government and Chinese oligarchs aren’t also exercising an unjust degree of control over their own citizens. The Chinese government surveilling its citizens and tightly controlling the flow of information is not being done out of benevolence.

Just vague, unsourced orientalism. You only feel this "in your gut", because your are propagandized by western media to hate the enemies of the US.