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> which not only completely ignores mistreatment of ethnic, religious and sexual minorities - from imprisonment

but the US statistics on imprisonment of minorities is no better.

> For example the frequent adulteration of food (including baby food) with poisons

all major countries have scares and recalls due to contamination

> The panopticon surveillance

really? After all the details come out in the last 5 years, surveillance cannot be thrown at the Chinese alone. UK leads CCTV per population (or some metric). NSA data slurping revelations...

> and the inevitable lack of reforms to public health and safety.

why do you think the Chinese do not make improvements to public health and safety? Of course they do.

> Increasing nationalism, police observation and 'patriotic' violent attacks on foreigners

errr are you blind to the rise of this in the US since Trump and UK since brexit?

> Violence against medical professionals when patients feel

Bombing abortion clinics comes to mind

> The rise of an unelected dictator forming a cult of personality and the subsequent reinvigoration of anti-foreign, nativist han Chinese sentiment, and the increased suppression of minorities and dissent that has resulted.

Change unelected to "unelected by the majority" in higly disputed elections countrywide with many cases of fraud and vote tampering and I can think of another country this applies to

Anyway, why does the above mean there is no "American Dream" in China, when most the accusations you make can be levelled (in some form) to the US as well

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