> reminder that china is out performing japan in every aspect, there was a thread today about a guy named wang chaoyi. he ran a telegram called "cat addiction therapist" where he and his accomplices filmed themselves torturing and killing hundreds of cats. gouging their eyes out, cutting open pregnant ones, the whole deal. i thought it was bullshit until i followed the weibo links. he didn't even try to hide his identity the whole time. after years of online campaigning, the guy finally got arrested in 2023...for fifteen days, and that was it. china simply doesn't have strong laws against that kind of shit. he's still working at a bank today.  between stuff like that and the wet markets that spawned the covid debacle, i have a very low opinion of china's moral character. there are clearly better east asian countries when it comes to that. i'm still glad china exists as a counterweight to dc since russia couldn't face the entire western order completely alone, but i find this dickriding of them distateful.
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