She had the audacity to go on one of the flotilla to Palestine and get tortured by Israelis.

The article is complete garbage, picked apart well by the other reply you had.

Not least because it spouted off the Uyghur genocide bullshit to smear China.

“Like it’s the bible.” You are a fucking idiot. Trotskyists call shit imperialist then when you point out that they are wrong and don’t even understand the book that they pulled the term from you get accused of quote mining. Get a grip.

Trotskyists failing to understand Lenin’s Imperialism for the 1000th time.

Imperialism is the stage of Capitalism where a militaristic foreign policy is developed and employed as a continuation of economic policy.

China is not doing imperialism because it trades with other nations and helps them build infrastructure and factories in win-win negotiations. When was the last time China got a trade deal or negotiated settlement because it pointed a load of guns and missiles at its potential trade partner?

Just childish and pathetic both sides-ism of the social fascists.

Those citations from that page come back to a book written by Jasper Becker, a right-wing journalist expelled from Hong Kong in the 90s and who became a Tory Councillor in the 2010s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_Ghosts:_Mao's_Secret_Famine

His book plays fast and loose with statistics, and the margins of error are huge - somewhere between 15 and 55 million people died in the famine but this citation seemingly suggests 65 million died, above that even cited in the books Wikipedia article. Reading the citations in the book’s article leads you to a number of American (and American Chinese) authored articles that all pluck various numbers from this vast range.

Even a cursory amount of research and poking around links those various citations led to makes the presented state of affairs that seemed so ironclad and clear cut almost melt into meaningless. What else can be expected from anti-communist hit pieces so readily shared by idiots hoping to spread atrocity propaganda.

And when the EU kills thousands and thousands of people in the Mediterranean for trying to enter, that’s just the cost of doing business I suppose. Dinghys full of people that EU coast guards could rescue but don’t, for fear of the influx of refugees and immigrants into the EU. Left to die, drowning in the sea.

But China is evil because it controls the internal movement of its 1.4 billion population?

Tell me again the population of the EU. Of the population of the USA.

China is a developing country, it has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty by its policy decisions. It put an end to the famines that you attribute to malice as opposed to the costs of decades of civil war and invasion by fascist forces.

And all states are authoritarian, so it loses its explanatory value and is a useless term when used to isolate and describe individual states.

And I know an expat family from China who are communists and broadly support China and the CPC.

Tit for tat anecdotes don’t Trump actual data.

Me when my country still has lynchings of black and brown people, had horrific racial discrimination during the worst of the USSRs excesses, has the highest per capita incarceration rate of overwhelmingly black and indigenous people, is responsible in part for the deaths of over 1 million Iraqis, put Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WW2 just in case they were spies, genocided their native population and still effectively operates apartheid for the remaining natives, supports the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, locked up and tortured MENA people without trial post 9/11 in an offshore torture camp, ran black sites all across Iraq and Afghanistan doing more torture of brown people and on and on and on and on and on and on…

Zero possibility that this friend lied?

Some people love to lie especially if it gets a rise out of people. “Defectors” including the likes of Yeonmi Park from the DPRK also are financially incentivised to lie. I know people that lie about shit in the UK to make things sound worse than it is, and they will swear up and down it’s true after being called out on it.