Never heard of the Xinjiang concentration camps? In China it’s also mostly brown people who criticize the government who are disappeared, the billionaires are the exceptions that make the news.
The USA might be getting worse, but it’s still a far cry from China.
In the US making people disappear without due process is news, in China it’s a daily occurrence.
What I mean is the pivot to the east was pretty clear with Obama. With Trump? I think he sees China and Russia more as a role model than an opponent, but who knows what’s going on in his mind.
Maybe you weren’t paying attention when Obama was president? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_foreign_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration
She made a few public appearances, that means she’s on indefinite house arrest or something similar. Could be worse of course, this is indeed not the best example.
Some better examples:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Michael_Spavor_and_Michael_Kovrig