China lacks rule of law, or even an attempt at it: the Chinese government has stated that the notion of rule of law is just western imperialism. This is why, China having a constitution that guarantees freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and so on, is completely meaningless (no independent judiciary means the law is whatever officials claim it is) whereas an attempt of rule of law is actually made in the USA, even if it is far from perfect.
Ironically, we are debating Singapore in parent, which has extremely strong rule of law, but the laws are such that security is prioritized.
I bet the guys taken blindfolded by CIA, questioned in the middle of somewhere, and then brought back, will fully agree how much better the US system happens to be.
Naturally the ones that survived the question process.
It’s not that there’s nothing to criticize about the US and this example is one of the worst things the US does. However a key difference is that the CIA is not doing this to American citizens, we can be sure that if it were there would be considerably more outrage. In China this sort of treatment is on the table for anyone who crosses the line.
Binarism (that there is only right and wrong, and not a large spectrum of gray scale in between) is one of those huge fallacies that allows one to claim that China and the USA are basically the same, when in reality, neither is white or black but one is much closer to black than the other.
True, yet acting as US is a country that should be a moral example where such things never happen also doesn't help, a country where having the wrong skin colour might be a death sentence when stoped by the police.
Not much different than being stop by the police in more dubious countries.
Are we talking about China or the USA? Because having the wrong skin color is also dangerous in China as well (eg being caught African or Uighur in Guangzhou). I get it: the USA is more diverse so ethnic tension is much more common, but China has the same issues, even worse, just papered over a 90% Han majority focused into the east. Frankly, China’s ethnic tensions are a hundred years behind the states.
Ironically, we are debating Singapore in parent, which has extremely strong rule of law, but the laws are such that security is prioritized.