Re: In today's news...
Don't you mean North Korea though? China is pretty rational, and a major trade partner of the US I thought.
Yeah you are right, I mean just look at these, for western sensibilities pretty scary pictures of north Korean propaganda..
I mean, with the glorious leader bearing down on you, 'elected' for at least a decade.. and.. wait.. Korea is leader for life....
Oooh crap, thats the Chinese president. Sorry, my bad, asians look so similiar sometimes..
They're not really all that rational. You think that because the US subtly.. prevents negative press from china from circulating, in addition with China doing such marvelously on their own. North Korea is the shittiest country on the planet right now to be clear, but China isn't a nice place, it just played the trade game better than North Korea, the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany in their times, plus it was an accidential old ally of America in being an opponent of the japanese. Heres some things from China -2017-:
Kings of Censorship.
China is. Some muslimic countries are more aggressive in detaining people, but none other comes close in terms of pure technological power. Oh and better not complain. Critiquing censorship can get you as much there as manslaughter gets you in some states and european countries. Besides Vast internet censorship examples include but are not limited to:
-The president asking their three largest news stations for absolute loyalty to the party.
-A by law enforced app keeping logs of your online activity for 60 days.
-Being insulting to the party or it's leadership, even by accident can see a newspaper destroyed and the ones in charge put on trial. Imagine this happening for everyone critical of Trump.
Kings of the Death Penalty
To be clear, nothing compared to war in the middle east or starvation in North Korea, but as far as institutionalized killing of people goes, you thought America had it fancy?
China kills thousands a year. Hard to get proper numbers because see above, but the thing they can't hide is that theres a total of 46 criminal offenses that can get you the death penalty. For comparison, America has 8, and two of them are, amusing to me, piracy and mutiny. (Coastal piracy, I presume, until Hollywood gets real desperate? *Shrug*)
Racists
Not the worst here as arguably some religious groups coincide with ethnicity and muslimic countries are the absolute masters of religious prosecution. However, theres a bunch of racial superiority and japanese hating here, but the biggest one there is is tibet. If you are Tibetan you don't have freedom of speech(even less that is), assembly and movement. You also don't have freedom of religion, but that's because NO chinese has that, story for another time. Let me put this into perspective: Let's say you wanna vacation in a random european country, no problem, all you need is some vacation days and the money to buy the tickets, if you are european you don't even need new money or a travel pass-port. Not so for Tibetans in China. You aren't allowed to move without approval, exspecially leave the country. You try anyway, or try after being denied, you go to prison, if that was judged as treason you could be killed.
Final example, albeit half jokingly, you know how much of a fuss Trumps wall causes? Do you also know which country is famous for having a wall all along?
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TL;DR: China is not the worst, but to be worse, you need to be very deep in arabic countries, North Korea, or at war.
Oh and while at it, let me disspel these notions of all of Africa as this starving, disease ridden warlord ruled continent of anarchy, this is Abuja, capital of Nigeria, clearly someone finally helped out that prince, well, not prince, place has been a democracy whilest the US was still busy testing poisons on black prisoners. Anyway: