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China is in no way worse than the US.
Uyghurs
Uyghurs are not being tortured and killed.
The best and most comprehensive resource I have seen so far is Qiao Collective's Xinjiang: A Resource and Report Compilation. Qiao Collective is explicitly pro-PRC, but this is an extremely comprehensive write-up of the entire background of the events, the timeline of reports, and real and fake claims.
I also recommend reading the UN report and China's response to it. These are the most relevant accusations and responses without delving into straight up fantasy like Adrian Zenz, professional propagandist for the Victims of Communism Foundation, does.
Tourists do go to Xinjiang all the time, yes. You can watch videos like this one on YouTube, though it obviously isn't going to be a comprehensive view of a complex situation like this.
Tibet
Tibet was a feudal slave society backed by the CIA. The PLA liberated Tibet.
Two excerpts from Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth:
Selection two, shorter: (CW sexual violence and mutilation)
-Dr. Michael Parenti
Falun Gong
A far-right cult? That's what you uphold? They're funded by the CIA to undermine China.
The US Empire
The US Empire far outweighs China. It's a settler-colonial empire that plunders the global south for wealth through imperialism and unequal exchange, is committing genocide in Palestine, just kidnapped a democratically elected president for daring to keep oil nationalized, and has a widespread police violence problem resulting in regular murders of innocents. China has nothing to compare to this.
It's so annoying that it's so easy to access this information, and I still see so many tibetian flags when I go to a protest, until like last week there were more tibiant flags than Venezuelan flags
Yep, people absorb positions through osmosis.
I suspect there's also an aspect of chauvinism here at play. If people already have a predisposition to see themselves as superior, then these kinds of stories feed into what they already want to believe.
Yep! The western exceptionalist mindset comes first, then they license themselves to believe that that which supports them is "good," and then absorb "other thing bad" through osmosis. They all are required, which is why breaking any of these legs tends to radicalize people.
Incidentally, I can't recommend this book enough, it lays out how this whole mindset was cultivated since the end of WW2.
Interesting, thank you! Yet another to add to the reading pile...
this one's pretty short at least :)