I mean, can't you say the same about the US? All you have to do is not commit crimes.
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>China does not kill by drone extra judicially outside their country. I don't have to be afraid of clear skies.
A few comments down: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/29/the-disappeared-china-r...
A responsible government would not kill without a trial , without the chance for the accused to face his accusers, there is no judicial oversight to any of this .
I am not sure kidnapping people( bad as it is) compares to a drone strike . No national security concern should justify killing children and lack of real outrage makes the amercian public complicit too.
> In 2020, the non-profit Prison Policy Initiative issued a report,"Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020," that said, based on the most recent census data and information from the Bureau of Prisons, an overwhelming majority of inmates in county and municipal jails were being held pre-trial, without having been convicted of a crime
> In 2017, 482,100 inmates in federal and state prisons were held pre-trial.
That's not 3 million but it's quite a lot.
For example , It is hard for me to see why drugs are criminalised so much in the U.S. a little weed could get you 10 years in prison till few years back ,civil forfeiture, abortion laws or why laws in your country all horrify me.
To understand guns laws , I will have to understand the rationale of second amendment the long history of gun ownership.
Similarly to under China today , there is 2,000 year history you will need to keep in context .
Again not defending China , it is important to see how we see things coloured by our own biases.
Oh please, give me a break. There's no rule of law in China, only rule by law. Just ask the Canadians that just happened to break some law right after Meng got detained in Canada.
Also, "damaging property" as a crime and being detained near the scene of a protest turned violent is way more universally accepted as illegal than whatever trumped up charges of "spreading false rumors" that the Chinese legal system levies against dissidents.
There's an epidemic of extrajudicial killings in the US right now. Indefinite detention without trial and torture have been normalized under three presidents, and one can't expect change there under Biden, so we're looking at a quarter century of these policies at a minimum.
The danger of whataboutism is that the US doesn't have a leg to stand on anymore.
The most recent execution of Canadians in China have been on drug charges. They had trials, it's crime and punishment by the books. Sure, it's politically motivated, but is it worse than a drug dealer getting shot dead while running away from a police officer?
And when we look at the history of criminalizing drug use and possession, who's responsible? China started cracking down because the British demand for opium was harmful to the Chinese people. The US started, and continues to wage, a "war on drugs" which was really a war on marginalized populations and an excuse to exercise imperial power in the middle east and south america. Rule by law, indeed.
What % of NSL has been turned down ? FISA warrant rejection rate is like 12 for 30,000+ warrants. For all intents it is absolute order if the Courts hardly reject it.
> The lack of prisons full of political dissidents ...
Your prisons are fuller than any other large developed country more than 3 million people are in prison, your judicial systems are racially and economically biased . In a country embodying capitalism, is this not worse than putting dissidents in prison? At least they actually have to dissent before being put in jail, here the system is rigged such that poor hardly have a vote or voice, rich keep paying lower tax than middle class, and gets exploited and still happily vote for the people robbing them blind.
Perhaps you have better rights as a citizen, the rest of us around the globe not so much.
China does not kill by drone extra judicially outside their country. I don't have to be afraid of clear skies.
I don't have to as afraid that I will be grabbed by Chinese Intelligence to a black site like Guantanamo bay with no legal course or judicial oversight.
I need to be lot more worried of U.S. funding and meddling in local politics than of China. Every single time U.S. has engaged in covert/ overt meddling in ME/Lat Am , Far East etc, it has always lead to lot of death and suffering.
For citizens of the world there is no protection, If I do business with FAANG outside the U.S. and even if keep my data outside, still U.S. courts have full rights to grab my data, against my country laws under which the tech giants supposed to operate in my country .
For all your rights and amendments against surveillance and wire-tapping on paper , the rest of the world has none. Your security agencies can legally monitor at anyone at will without any oversight.
U.S. companies have and continue to backdoor / frontdoor everywhere in the world as they please, and suffer no consequences.
Privacy and basic human rights should not be just American right, I hope rest of us get treated as humans too in your system.
Does it make China better? of course not! it is not whataboutism. Both are bad.
For rest of us, the U.S. has already done lot more damage. China will do lot more damage in the future no doubt, but today U.S. is in no position to talk .