This video is by Eric Hovagim an up and coming Tankie “reporter” and in his video he even unironically leans into China is just doing a “combatting terrorism”, just like the US gov does, amongs other things to justify chinas various human rights abuses.
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Two things can be bad.
My point is claiming China is fighting terrorism just like the US should be a criticism, not a defense. And these are people that (rightly) criticized US antiterrorism actions, so it’s bizarre to then act like similar things are totally fine and normal when China does them.
Ah I see. My misunderstanding.
I think that’s what they’re saying, pretty sure they’re calling out hypocrisy of the video itself not the post