'The Ohio Democrat faced accusations of bigotry for his forceful criticisms of the Chinese Communist Party. But criticizing a dictatorship is not an attack on people,' mkhammer writes.
Letting our domestic sensitivities dictate our debate on China allows the CCP to avoid criticism where it richly deserves it, and it can have terrible consequences for free speech here.Let’s also remember that China is a nuclear-armed global superpower—and the Chinese Communist Party is a bad actor on the world stage. At the very least, it, causing crucial delays in worldwide study, planning, and mitigation efforts.
The entire world nonetheless recently gathered at a Beijing-hosted Olympics, which despite diplomatic boycotts handed China’s government the prestige it desired while skiers and snowboarders aerialed against a backdrop of dystopian, snowless scenery. The least we can do is subject them to the rhetorical wrath of our negative campaign ads.
Shanghai, a cosmopolitan center of 25 million, is locked down, its citizens subject to robot and drone surveillance. Citizens cannot leave their homes for medical care or food; they are welded into their residential areas or sealed up in malls where infections have been detected. Children who test positive for COVID are separated from their parents in an attempt to uphold an authoritarian government’s dreams of “zero COVID.”U.S. politicians must be able to criticize a nation state without every criticism—even the heavy-handed ones made for one-minute ad buys—being deemed sinophobic.
Letting our domestic sensitivities dictate our debate on China allows the CCP to avoid criticism where it richly deserves it, and it can have terrible consequences for free speech here.an American university censored posters by Chinese dissident artist BadiucaoBadiucao’s satirical versions of Beijing Winter Olympics posters took aim at the CCP’s surveillance state, the oppression of Hong Kong, Tibetans, and Uyghurs—as well as its handling of the coronavirus.
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