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Re:Britain to give millions of HKers a path to citizenship by Renaud on Saturday July 11, 2020 @10:59PM (#23808410)
China lifted a billion people out of poverty after putting them there in the first place.

The various incarnations of the dictature that is the CCP have killed millions of its own people through labour camps and unchallenged economic policies that literally resulted in famines and poverty.

But that's not the point. Comparing the evils that each country has done is a distraction from the current topic. It's not the US giving lessons here, it's people like you and me saying that the very present behaviour of China in Hong Kong is unacceptable.

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Re:Britain to give millions of HKers a path to citizenship by AngryData on Sunday July 12, 2020 @12:01AM (#23808699)
Did it really put them there in the first place? China was pretty dirt fucking poor beforehand, consisting mainly of subsidence farmers. Yeah their government was certainly a bunch of bastards, but they were already poor as fuck.
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