This is sad, not maddening. I don’t know what to say if we cannot cleanly talk about genocide—that’s what it is by any definition—in a country where you may well have spent the rest of your life in jail for writing this about that country’s government. That’s not excusing the US.
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Also, side point, in Germany, which you praise, and where I have family (as many Turks do!), I know people who faced citizenship denial because their very very German spouse could not prove German BLOOD from before world war II, where many children born there have no citizenship.
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It's true as you write that for one particular historic crime, Nazis, the official German response has been acceptance (well, after being soundly defeated twice and having been forced to but I'll take it), but the racism there, *legal* & informal, can be so deep it's suffocating.
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one key point here is that *China has gotten significantly worse in the last eight years.* It's not even a static bad power. (Even China c. 2007 was significantly worse than the U.S. circa 2020, to be clear.)
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But treating China only as an object to make moral framings about the United States is the root badness of almost all writing about China by people with no sense of it as a real, actual place.
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The last time I made noises in the direction of the equivalence argument to a Chinese friend, they shut me down kindly but hard :) (And this is not someone who fled the country or anything, just somebody I trust to be clear-eyed)
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I would object to the question itself and refuse to answer without clarification 1. "Better" implies a one-dimensional evaluation. That's outrageously simplistic 2. It depends on who is being asked. If I were born a Chinese peasant, now with a middle-class job, it's a no-brainer
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