• eta@feddit.org
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    23 hours ago

    That depends. Were they really investigated because they did something wrong or rather because they were no longer useful politically or because they dared to oppose Xi?

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      5 hours ago

      Never ask:

      • The USA why it has so many prisoners
      • Saudi Arabia why they’re holding foreign worker’s passports
      • China why the number of executions is a state secret
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      16 hours ago

      Imagine a president who found corruption in his administration and decided “corrupt officials aren’t useful, they should be removed”.

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          13 hours ago

          I mean, imagine a Chinese publication leaping to the defense of Henry Cuellar, Bob Menendez, Eric Adams, and George Santos.

          So much of the US news really does boil down to a handful of senior editors having this burning hatred for the sitting Chinese President.