Provience
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Liberals and liberal institutions feel understandable discomfort in portraying China as an enemy, since this is what Trump has done—often with considerable resort to xenophobia and without distinguishing between the Chinese regime and the Chinese people. To attack and focus attention on China also runs the risk of boosting the Trump administration’s narrative that China is America’s new enemy. That Trump might be right on one thing is certainly possible, but that doesn’t make the idea of agreeing with him any less uncomfortable.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...-means/616846/
op-ed from the atlantic, i won't copy/paste the whole thing because it is long and good, but the above paragraph is pretty interesting
Sarah Jeong to wonder, “‘Is the United States better, worse, or the same as China?’ … In 2020, this is becoming a genuinely difficult question to answer.” After all, Jeong reasoned, “China brutally represses its political dissidents; in America, law enforcement in military camouflage have grabbed protesters off the streets and shoved them into unmarked vans.”
this statement, a quote not from the author, highlights how incredibly beyond absurd the comparison between Chinese repression and American repression of political dissent really is. BEYOND absurd, though, for all his other great points, isn't properly abused by the author, in my opinion
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