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Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech by throwawaymaths on Thursday April 06, 2023 @01:46AM (#35464608)
What are you even talking about. China is regularly rated lower than Vietnam on human rights rankings and Vietnam is trending towards improvement. China is trending towards regression.

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/vietnams-human-righ...

Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech by bakuninsbart on Thursday April 06, 2023 @02:19AM (#35464831)
I thought this article did a quite good job at what is meant when people talk about the fight for democracy: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/03/31/what-biden-mean...

Our morals in international politics are always just applied selectively, and there are few examples of where our best interest and moral considerations clash - because morality is immediately ignored or downplayed when interest is involved.

Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech by senttoschool on Thursday April 06, 2023 @01:55AM (#35464668)
Lived in China and Vietnam. There is no comparison. I don't care if Vietnam allows their citizens to use Facebook.
Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech by zarzavat on Thursday April 06, 2023 @01:59AM (#35464701)
When did you live in China? China today is a different country to pre-Xi or even early-Xi China.

Also China doesn’t let you go where the real human rights abuses are in Xinjiang.

Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech by anigbrowl on Thursday April 06, 2023 @02:01AM (#35464709)
Please go into more detail, as there's a dearth of comparative information.
Re:China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech by RedCondor on Thursday April 06, 2023 @02:56AM (#35465082)
RFA? Come on.

>Based on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, it was established by the US International Broadcasting Act of 1994 with the stated aim of "promoting democratic values and human rights", and countering the narrative of the Chinese Communist Party, as well as providing media reports about the North Korean government.[12] It is funded and supervised by the U.S. Agency for Global Media[13] (formerly Broadcasting Board of Governors), an independent agency of the United States government.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia