People who suffer conniptions over someone's failure to adequately criticize China or any other empire-targeted nation universally embody this dynamic. They don't criticize the US empire, or if they do they don't do so in a way that reflects how worthy of criticism those power structures are. Washington is plainly far, far more worthy of criticism than Beijing, but those who bleat "You can criticize BOTH" are never far more critical of Washington than Beijing. Typically, they are considerably less critical.

Reading by Tim Foley.