Going back 35 years to point out a time when protestors were killed is always a strange thing to me. You can go back just a few weeks until you reach a point where the US killed protestors. Then there's stuff like the Black Lives Matter protests where the US government violently suppressed protests and people died/disappeared.
If 1989 is all a country has as a problem, then that's a sign it's doing great.
Uh.This has happened plenty. It's pretty well known that there's a lot of various abductions/disappearances of people the Chinese govt doesn't like. Including outright deaths in the streets:
While it's correct to criticize China's authoritarian policies and lack of civic and religious freedoms that are often taken for granted here, it's still very much a pot-calling-the-kettle-black situation. The US's treatment, both historical and modern, of it's black, native, and immigrant populations have been just as or even more brutal than China's crackdown on Islamism. Mass incarceration and criminalization of the poorest sections of society in the US are at levels far beyond what exists in any other country in the world. Political corruption and nepotism have been normalized for decades, and the deep-seated culture of elite impunity is apparent in the total lack of consequences from the Epstein files. US citizens should not be wasting time criticizing other countries for problems our own country has yet to fix.
AnIrishDuck|16 days ago
It's the prototypical example of authoritarian crackdowns and mass slaughter of innocent protestors.
Discussion or even mention of it is still forbidden in China.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...
kdheiwns|15 days ago
If 1989 is all a country has as a problem, then that's a sign it's doing great.
polairscience|16 days ago
https://rsf.org/en/beaten-death-state-security-rsf-shocked-g...
basket_horse|16 days ago
hasperdi|16 days ago
That said, they also use them as slave labors.
Maybe that's what ICE is going to do with the plan to setup large detention centers in the US
t-3|15 days ago
hypeatei|16 days ago