I disagree. The right vs wrong of it IS the point.
Tolerance of the actions of the leaders of Communist China are viewed as acceptance. Biden didn’t have to make it a point to praise Zhu De, he could have said nothing about him and still shown respect of the culture. Those who were in agreement with Mao’s policies though he was great and did wonderful things for the country. No news flash there.
Praising Zhu De and Mao only shows acceptance for their establishment of the Communist Party and all of the collateral effects of their actions. It also shows the people of China the US leaders are willing to turn their head to the atrocities that are perpetrated against the Chinese people.
Mao Zedong, the first CCP leader of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), put it bluntly by saying, “What can Emperor Qin Shihuang brag about? He only killed 460 Confucian scholars, but we killed 46,000 intellectuals. There are people who accuse us of practicing dictatorship like Emperor Qin Shihuang and we admit it all. It fits the reality. It is a pity that they did not give us enough credit, so we need to add to it.”
If imprisoning people, torturing them and executing them because they disagree with the government’s policies isn’t a barbaric form of brainwashing, care to provide another definition?
Moa was a great guy, in fact, he killed more people than Stalin and Hiltler combined. Greatest killer in the 20th Century. I call that evil, not bad policy.
Currently, the US Government is beholden to China because of our indebtedness and shows a lack of integrity in upholding the US Constitution, Biden’s “diplomatic” actions are proof. Our Founding Fathers warned of this, but these warnings have gone unheeded.