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CHINA SOUND FAMILIAR? DICTATORSHIP WANTING MORE TERRITORY? JAILING A MINORITY?

Does China remind you of any other dictatorship since, say, 1939?  It hates democracy and free speech.  It’s rapidly built up its military. It’s jailed a despised ethnic group (Uyghurs). It’s ultranationalist and wants to reconquer territory (Taiwan, South China Sea) that it claims belongs to the fatherland. It even has its Poland — Hong Kong.

Does China remind you of any other dictatorship since, say, 1939? I know the first person to say “Nazi” loses the argument, but let’s just do a checklist. 

It hates democracy and free speech. Check.

It’s rapidly built up its military.

It’s jailed a despised ethnic group (Uyghurs, in China’s case).

It’s ultranationalist and wants to reconquer territory (Taiwan, South China Sea) that it claims belongs to the fatherland.

It even has its Poland — Hong Kong.

(Read the full column here.)

Andrew Bolt
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