China has no free speech and will start flexing its imperial muscle more now that the US is climbing down from the world stage.

China is alright if you keep your head down and you're not of the wrong ethnicity, locked up in a work camp and not allowed to have kids, or too openly gay or trans and so on.

Ah, so you do have free speech, I take it? Unless you criticise a certain assassinated far right activist, of course.

And don’t even get me started on flexing an imperial muscle. South America and the EU would like a word.

US is regressing on trans rights, abortion, etc. Free speech is under threat with the president “attacking” media institutions. You have daylight murder by federal agents followed by propaganda campaigns to blame the victims themselves or on the Democratic Party to create more political friction.

No one is saying China is perfect in these threads, we’re just saying the US isn’t necessarily better. Two countries can be shitty simultaneously.