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The West was laughing and pointing at China. "Look at them surveilling their citizens! So cringe." Meanwhile, people massively bought into surveillance capitalism, gobbled up all the bullshit about "if you have nothing to hide", and look where it's taking us. Yet people continue to buy Google products, swear that Malus won't ever be evil and store their lives on iPhones and Macs, they vote for right-wing candidates who talk about building walls, surveilling the poor, foreign, and different, and don't somehow fail to see how their countries are slowly becoming more China-like.
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Even to the (insufficient, overblown) extent that it happens, lifting "the poor" Han Chinese out of poverty by putting other populations (Uighurs) under slave labour instead, is not the moral win you're implying.
If an ethnic cleansing is part of the requirements, to stop committing humanitarian atrocities towards "the poor", that's still an atrocity.
Disclaimer, the USA, just like every authoritarian state, is also disgusting and criminal.
@trevron, what is a good source of information regarding China?
So just name a source.