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Re:Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national ...
by nouveaux on Monday August 10, 2020 @04:04PM
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I see your point regarding Qian Xuesen and that whole thing was a tragedy for United States. Similar things can be said about the US treatment of Japanese Americans and internment camps.
Your point is exactly why we need to be afraid of any government's suppression of free speech. We need to support people like Jimmy Lai so the likes United States and the CCP cannot suppress the voice of good people. We need to be fearful of any government arresting anyone advocating for freedom. Regardless of your government, the goal is to support free speech and the freedom of the press.
I think we can fight for more Chinese roles in films, politicians, scientists, CEOs, more representation in all fields. However, I don't see how your argument about it being okay to "cancel" because China is just cancelling 1% and America is 99%.
I'd also not prefer to live in a CCP-centric world where Chinese people are not allowed to tell the truth without fear.[1][2]
We should call out Guantanamo Bay as well as the Xinjiang re-education camps, Liu Xiaobo, not allowing Hong Kong elections. It doesn't make either right because of the existence of the other. However, I have no fear of speaking publicly about Guantanamo Bay and then traveling to the US. But I have to make sure I remove all my private chat messages if I ever mentioned about the Xinjiang camps. That's the CCP-centric world that I see.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Qiushi#February_2020_disa...
[2]https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3074622/coro...