Anybody who's ever worked with houseless folks will laugh at the idea that cops can't just pick people up and hold them without any repercussions. In the US you need to be of the right social standing to actually be afforded those "rights".
Due process has always been a myth in US history for people who aren't of a certain privileged status. For example, the whole concept of "citizen's arrest" was created in order to let non-cop white people detain black people
Unfortunately the most marginalized people in any society are often treated badly. That's different from a society like China's, where anyone can be disappeared for any amount of time with impunity if they offend a powerful person. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/what-drives-high-profile-...
If you're upset about what was happening in the US during the 1950s, definitely don't learn anything about what was happening in China at that time. Mao, Stalin, and Hitler are all vying in Hell for the title of Most Lethal Human Being Ever.
Yes, Peng Shuai came out to say she was fine, with no explanation for the months of disappearance. She recanted her allegations, again with no detail or explanation as to why she made them against a prominent party official or how exactly her plain words were supposedly misunderstood.
Only a child or a 50-center would assume that these things happened without threat or coercion.
And she is only the latest in a long list of disappearances of CCP persona non grata, as documented in the links I previously provided.
“Only a child or a 50-center would assume that” someone might disappear from the foreign social media for a few weeks without oppressive regime forcing them to? Do you realise how ridiculous you sound?
As for "CCP full of angels" - of course not. I'm just not indoctrinated enough to believe US is any better. There's one fundamental difference though: China is improving.
Hmm, you seem to have conveniently omitted the more damning half. Denying her own allegation without any explanation.
Why don't you tell us why you believe the CCP is full of angels who would never do such things? Any friends there?
> I'm just not indoctrinated enough to believe US is any better.
You don't need to be indoctrinated. You're actively ignoring any evidence that is inconvenient for your rosy picture of China. From the CCP's perspective, you're the perfect citizen. They wouldn't even need to censor if the country were full of good obedient citizens like you, who believe what they are supposed to believe and ignore what they are supposed to ignore.
> China is improving
I believe that as much as I believe Russia is invading Ukraine for its own good.
And you are actively ignoring any evidence that's inconvenient for your rosy picture of United States. From both of your parties[1] perspective you're a perfect citizen.
See, here's the thing: nobody is claiming China is perfect. But you assume US is, or that it's at least better than China. Despite the million people killed just because your president wanted reelection, or the fact that your law doesn't quite apply to wealthy people, or the fact that the police is murdering people for their skin color with impunity.
Ever wondered why?
1. Two parties is fundamentally different from one party, right?
> And you are actively ignoring any evidence that's inconvenient for your rosy picture of United States.
I'm actually not. I have pointed to several examples of things you have repeatedly chosen to ignore, and you have pointed to zero examples of things I have ignored.
"I know you are but what am I" is a children's game. When adults speak, it is based on facts and logic and evidence.
> See, here's the thing: nobody is claiming China is perfect. But you assume US is, or that it's at least better than China.
It is better in some ways, which you have so far refused to acknowledge.
I have no problem acknowledging US faults. I have no problem acknowledging that China is better at not starting pointless wars, for example.
You should have no difficulty acknowledging that it is impossible to know the extent to which China is improving or has rule of law when all information is restricted by the CCP's totalitarian censorship regime. And you obviously understand corruption, so you should have no difficulty acknowledging that we should be deeply skeptical that an overwhelmingly censored society has rule of law. Because the point of censorship is to protect the government from what the people would do if they knew the truth.
I do not care which country is better. I am not here to be a good little obedient nationalistic drone of any country. I care that the good people of China and America understand the natures of the systems that rule over them and fight against the corruption in those systems.
Ah, you mean transparency. Indeed, China is quite a bit behind in that regard, and I'm afraid it's to some extent cultural, but it's improving, see eg http://www.ecns.cn/m/news/society/2018-11-27/detail-ifzaaiuy... ("China's courts have livestreamed more than 2 million hearings online over the past two years as part of efforts to further improve judicial transparency").
Due process has always been a myth in US history for people who aren't of a certain privileged status. For example, the whole concept of "citizen's arrest" was created in order to let non-cop white people detain black people
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26380304