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China says it cannot accept countries acting as 'world judge' after US captures Maduro
(www.reuters.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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China is an authoritarian dictatorship that tramples human rights and treats its citizens like resources and speed-bumps and treats "free speech" as the joke it actually is.
All that said, they are pulling ahead on the world stage by miles. We don't see it in the US because again... freedom of speech isn't real, media is filtered, but if you travel you see whole other angles on the entire planet and just how much we don't get shown.
For example, you rarely see news about it, but China has launched 3 space stations in the time it took us to make just the documentaries about the ISS and how huuuuge of an accomplishment it was for the world. They are going to be launching probes and setting up smart, realistic goals for exploring the solar system. That's just not the kind high-tech, ambitious, modern project that we associate with our stereotypical imagery of China that we get fed here, but if you actually walk around in any of their new cities you will feel a distinct, sinking sensation that we've already lost.
Is bombing other countries, killing civilians and installing puppet leaders not a violation of human rights?
Two things can be true at once
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones at others.
Kay, I'm not chinese or american, so, both the us and china do horrendous things. It's not a shittiness competition
As an American I can say that the US and China are both bad....
It's like saying a slap on the wrist vs shooting someone with a gun are equally bad.
I think you're missing a lot of US History in your knowledge base. The US have committed atrocities for centuries. Are you forgetting the genocide of native americans? Slavery? All the meddling in Latin America and southeast Asia? This is just some of the bigger examples.
Are you responding to the wrong reply? Bojack is saying bringing up China's human rights violations in comparison to America bombing people and overthrowing governments all over the world is a false equivalency, and Lemmy is downvoting them because the are correct.