Who was painting them as evil? You'd have to be some kind of complete muppet to label an entire nation as evil, even if you think some of their actions qualify as such.orathaic wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2019 12:21 amI continue to not claim this is a good thing. Just that painting them as 'evil' lacks nuance and plays only into the propoganda of their rivals.
Just as painting the US as 'the lands of the free', as some kind of democratic paradise beyond all corruption, oppression or problems would be naive
But China are deeply wrong in how they run a nation, much to the disadvantage of the Chinese people. I firmly believe that a free and liberal democracy is the ideal, and whilst the US falls some way short of that at least their aspirations are in the right direction. The aspirations of a great many of the people of Hong Kong are also in the right direction.