It's disturbing how so many people claim to value democracy and rule of law, yet when it comes to China issues, all those values fly out of the window, in order to stick it to the CCP. Thread.

Case study: Wechat ban. They say CCP uses Wechat to spy on people, Chinese and non-Chinese alike, and so a ban is justified. Okay, Wechat should comply to local privacy laws, agreed. So let's go through proper due process...

...and point out specific law violations, and specify how to resolve them (e.g. setting up firewalls, moving some servers out of China, go through a security audit, etc)?

But no, Wechat should be banned with no investigation, no path to resolution, no questions asked.

Never mind that the only use of Wechat outside China, is to communicate with friends/family in China. The impact of spying on people outside China is minimal. A ban disproportionally affects the Chinese diaspora.

Never mind that the ban is global, not limited to the US. "But playing world police and forcing other countries to do something is justified, because freedom!"

We abandon due process, an essential part of rule of law, for a petty sense of revenge against the CCP?

People claim to support the Chinese people, and only oppose CCP, yet at the same time they don't care about Chinese people getting caught in the crossfire?

People forcefully "liberate" Chinese people, even though Chinese didn't ask for liberation?

Ironically, people don't see the problem with these latter two issues. One response is: "You don't want liberation because you've been brainwashed all your life".

How messed up is this?

Another response is "remember those Hong Kong protesters waving American flags? Proof that the Chinese as a whole overwhelmingly want liberation. What, you show me some instances of Chinese people saying otherwise? Well you can find a small nunber of lunatics in every population"

Never mind that this "liberation" either means war, or (currently) economic sanctions, which not only affect the livelihood of common Chinese people, but also other citizen in the world.

The response to this is "but freedom more important than economy". Well easy for you to say when you're typing that in a comfortable chair, and 1-2 generations ago your country wasn't being threatened by famines and civil wars, and you don't know the horrors of poverty.

"Opposing the CCP" has become a religion. Facts, truth, rule of law, democratic values, or even the well-being of common Chinese people, have become unimportant in the face of "dealing a blow to the CCP".

And this blow is dealt by punching a Chinese person in the face.

I wouldn't oppose *genuine* efforts to improve freedom in China. But the current efforts are no more than an attempt by Washington to burn China's prosperity down to the ground, to limit it to be a manfucaturer of cheap toys forever.

And yet people can't see this obvious political agenda because they are so caught up in the concept of opposing the evil CCP. It's a witch hunt.

I say that their care of the Chinese people is fake (even though many don't realize it themselves). They either haven't thought about the consequences of the current trajectory, or they actively choose not to care.

Sickening.