Originally Posted by
Jackonicko
Dr Dre,
China is an undemocratic, tyrannical, authoritarian, repressive dictatorship which tramples roughshod over human rights, and will never embrace anyone's rights to self determination.
China persecutes its own Muslim minority Uighur population.
China has persecuted Falun Gong adherents.
China imprisons and executes political opponents.
China illegally occupies Tibet, and has practised repression and ethnic cleansing.
China hectors, bullies and threatens Taiwan.
China has shown itself to be without honour when it comes to Hong Kong.
Let's not bother arguing about what China has and hasn't done during the COVID crisis, and whether the spread of the virus beyond China was deliberate, or whether it has merely been exploited by China. Let's not waste time condemning Chinese cyber attacks against Western infrastructure.
But do let's look at your characterisation of the South China Sea.
Have you looked at a f*cking map? Have you seen how much of the area within the nine dash line is far closer to China's neighbours than it is to China itself? Have you worked out how much of it is international waters? Can you seriously characterise the PRC as anything other than aggressive and expansionist?
China currently reminds me of 1930's Germany.
All we need now is a politician coming back and proclaiming "peace in our time".