That’s just how many middle managers the guy running the wood burning machine had to deal with that week.

The laws banning abortion and porn are directly based on the Christian ideology of these people. It may not be your version and they may be hypocrites, but it’s still theocracy.

The war on drugs is not a war, the war on terror is not a war. And both of those “campaigns” involved repression of concepts.

They may not have called it that but look into the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Both governments are bad. But the fact Chinese and us citizens are interacting face to face is a major positive.