You just need to read more history books, honestly. By saying things “are nuanced” is actually I think an attempt to de-nuance by trying to equate two things (China vs US) which are entirely different.
There is nothing useful by starting from a perspective of trying to equate two things when there is a distinct lack of knowledge/information. This is your own bias coming into play here - you are instantly trying to find some sort of equivalence instead of starting from the real square zero of “wait, I actually don’t know anything about China”.
This is one of the main pitfalls of liberal ideology - to always have to appease two sides to appear to be unbiased. Since I assume you are American, you obviously wouldn’t leapfrog to “both are bad” when cops beat up BLM protestors after protestors looted, right? Obviously there is a real truth to everything and you don’t get there by leapfrogging from zero knowledge to equivalence.
What exactly is it that you are hoping to accomplish by criticizing China, a country that you know ostensibly nothing about (you do not know its language, history, nor do you live there)?
So when framed like that:
-Why exactly does your criticism help you in your goal?
-Why is it worth anything?
-Why should Chinese people care about it?
-Why should countries who are leaving US imperialism care?
-What exactly is imperialism (this one is easy tbh, read Lenin, learn about the role of military, debt, and currency)?
Anyway the purpose of this is to get you to explore the way your own thought process works, as I assume you are a leftist from the west.
You just need to read more history books, honestly. By saying things “are nuanced” is actually I think an attempt to de-nuance by trying to equate two things (China vs US) which are entirely different.
There is nothing useful by starting from a perspective of trying to equate two things when there is a distinct lack of knowledge/information. This is your own bias coming into play here - you are instantly trying to find some sort of equivalence instead of starting from the real square zero of “wait, I actually don’t know anything about China”.
This is one of the main pitfalls of liberal ideology - to always have to appease two sides to appear to be unbiased. Since I assume you are American, you obviously wouldn’t leapfrog to “both are bad” when cops beat up BLM protestors after protestors looted, right? Obviously there is a real truth to everything and you don’t get there by leapfrogging from zero knowledge to equivalence.
What exactly is it that you are hoping to accomplish by criticizing China, a country that you know ostensibly nothing about (you do not know its language, history, nor do you live there)?
So when framed like that:
-Why exactly does your criticism help you in your goal?
-Why is it worth anything?
-Why should Chinese people care about it?
-Why should countries who are leaving US imperialism care?
-What exactly is imperialism (this one is easy tbh, read Lenin, learn about the role of military, debt, and currency)?
Anyway the purpose of this is to get you to explore the way your own thought process works, as I assume you are a leftist from the west.