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America applies diplomatic pressure too, for the things it finds important. This is how international politics work.


There’s diplomatic pressure and then there’s egregious crackdowns in service of totalitarianism.


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The US, for all its flaws, is not yet a dictatorship that oppresses any opposition to the government with harsh penalties including imprisonment end execution.

We’ve got serious problems and are well down the path of a fascist police state, but we aren’t there yet. Compared to China we very much can take the moral high ground.




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