This sort of thing, compounded, amounts to the death of this forum as a place for curious conversation, so please take better care of the commons here.
Second, whataboutism is part of the problem, not part of the solution. This article wouldn't even be published in China... and arrests that happen in China wouldn't be published in China. So how does it help to not publish when police overreach due to political interference?
Yeah because those countries often allow someone to be turn themselves in and then offer the accused freedom of movement for 250 dollars (10% bail).
Oh wait they just poison (Russia), disappear (China) or hang (Iran).
Are there problems in the US? Oh certainly. But don't belittle the activists in authoritarian countries by saying someone who was arrested for downloading PII is somehow equivalent to poisoning members of an opposition party.
There is no equivalence to be drawn. There is bad, and there is evil. The two are not the same, and any sentence connecting the two is driven by bad faith or propaganda.
But here, I'll give you a nice fact that will help you be more rational : the US has killed more innocents in the Middle East over lies than China is even accused of imprisoning in Xinjiang. So if you want your measure of evil, there they are. Both are evil.
This confuses me. Isn't the # of people being imprisoned in Xinjiang in excess of a million? That seems like a higher number (that I'm aware of) have been killed in the Middle East by the US in their wars over the last few decades. (?)
Of course, neither were purely by the US but rather by a Coalition, but none of them would have happened if it wasn't for the US.
I also include deaths from destruction of infrastructure and subsequent power vacuums, as is customary for crimes against humanity.
To be sure though, the CCP appreciates every bit of whataboutism they can get. They are also of the position that the west is worse than them, and that their genocide is entirely justified, just like every genocidal regime before them.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/15/black-...
Using proxies doesn't really make it any better.