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I'm well aware.
Note how you don't have to worry about them.
China won't be like that, because they aren't like that for anything else. It's a prison masquerading as a country.
You are wrong about that, if anyone is a prison it is the US, the country with the largest prison population in the world.
If China is a prison masquerading as a country, what does that make the US, which has the highest incarceration rate in the world, not just per capita but in total number (even with a much lower total population than China)?
Better.
Because we usually let people out.
Don't bother, China is an evil country that's indefensible, you can whatabout the US all you like, we have our problems, but we can also actually talk about them.
Yeah, because the US doesn't have the death penalty at all. Are you joking?
Fucking tankies defending the CCP executing people in secret.
I'm not defending execution, I'm just pointing out that it's stupid to suddenly get mad about cheap products from China because the US propaganda machine says you should be mad at China NOW. You've mindlessly rattled off every propaganda talking point, from the fearmongering, to the claims of "whataboutism", to the use of the "tankie" label. Why are you afraid of backdoors that China installs when you live in the US? If anything, the US backdoors would be worse for you since the US could actually get to you.