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[–] Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (52 children)

They're colonising islands in the South China Sea which other South East Asian countries claim

Hardly can you call it "colonize" when there isn't a population in said islands. At any rate it's much less violent than the poverty and lack of political representation that Puertoricans are imposed by the US.

mistreatment of ethnic minorities

Oh wow, a BBC article from 2021. Surely we should trust western state media to tell us unbiased facts about its geopolitical opponents. The BBC has famously avoided the word "genocide" for referring to Gaza over the past years, with scandals coming out of editorial orders of employees to avoid such reporting. Taking the BBC seriously on the mistreatment of Muslims in China is as laughable as taking Russia Today seriously on the mistreatment of ethnic Russians in Donetsk.

As for the "mistreatment of Uyghur". I have had this discussion 50 times in Lemmy: bring me a 2022-2025 source with contemporary independent journalistic accounts of generalized mistreatment of Uyghurs. Not a piece written by Radio Free Asia based on "anonymous witnesses". Not a piece written by Adrian Zenz based on "official government statistics". Bring me some, any independent journalistic work post-2021 about mass mistreatment of Uyghurs.

Also, your lack of concern for Ukrainian mass economic and population crisis suggests that your criticism for Russia doesn't come from a genuine care about the people suffering from the actions of the Russian government, but rather from an agreement with western propaganda.

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