Thread: China 'building runway in disputed South China Sea island'

Originally Posted by helge

You don't find me in the "hate America-love China or Putin and vice versa category.

Criticising the US is fair game and practiced by fairly well everyone here with no pushback aside from rpeeters, but criticism of China and Russia isn't accepted by OhOh and Klondyke, who will simply dig up something that happened in the US previously, unrelated usually, as a type of 'nah nah nah nah nah'.

Putin and Xi are dictators in oppressive regimes. Simple. Are other countries also ruled by autocrats or leaders whose best interest lies with themselves and their cronies? Yes. Does this make Xi and Putin less autocratic ad murderous? No.

Originally Posted by helge

So usually I'd agree with you half the time

But that wouldn't be good enough. In a discussion abut the US and its failings - yup. In a discussion about China, deviating to the US - nope.