Sure they are.

> The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

~ John Erlichman, Nixon's Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs

And decades of those policies have left the US with close to eight times the prisoners per capita of China. https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Prison...

And the US has no problem executing prisoners, and in fact unlike China has no problem executing someone for crimes committed while a minor (only the US, Iran, Pakistan, and Somalia do this).

And that's before even getting into the extrajudicial politically motivated killings like Fred Hampton's murder, the MOVE bombing, or the recent odd proclivity of Ferguson and BLM protest organizers to "kill themselves" by hanging in a public tree, or "shooting themselves" in the head and then torching the car that they were in.

Does the US have dissidents?

Half the US seems to be dissidents depending on who you ask - but they aren't being rounded up and sent to reeducation camps or having their organs harvested.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests...

Wow, half of the US population are dissidents. Is that what they call themselves? Is that what the government calls them?

Or did you just make it up and it's a word reserved for people in nations you hate?

What an odd reply, suddenly I'm the bad person and I 'hate' people because I want to save them?

Dissidents = "Disagreeing, as in opinion or belief"

The government in power decides who this is and then acts against them according. The CCP just happens to use lethal force on a massive scale in this regard.

Another really odd reply, after looking at your comment history I can see you're very pro-china and seem to be a troll in this one area based on others exchanges people have had with you.

Edward Snowden?

The Chinese government can't do anything to me though, while the US government can... So who should I fear more?

Both, but protect the most vulnerable first

Speak up for those who can't

Saying I should fear both is like saying I should fear dying in a car accident and being mauled by kangaroos.

The Chinese Government can't do anything to me unless I go there. Meanwhile my own government here presents an ever-present real life danger on multiple fronts. I still don't exactly fear it, but at least I know which is more likely to do me harm. Or for that matter, to do harm to others with my tax dollars.