B. Chinese Ambitions:
1. Unlike the USSR under Khrushchev, China never boasts that their system will replace that of the U.S. or other countries.
2. Its leaders believe their system is good for China without claiming its aptitude for other contexts.
3. They just want China to be strong with its own population prospering in an external environment conducive to that end.
C. What about Repression in Hong Kong?
1. It's true that Chinese citizens do not have the same rights to free speech as Americans.
2. But they have more such freedom than previously.
3. Remember, that during 150 years of British colonialism, there was no democracy or freedom of speech in Hong Kong.
4. Chinese authorities are especially sensitivite about Hong Kong because it's a symbol of British oppression and of its having forced China to accept opium commerce centered there in 1842.
D. What about Oppression of the Uyghurs?
1. Remember that the Muslim world is going through a major transformation - struggling to modernize and reinterpret relations between religion and politics.
2. Remember too that when the western countries came together in the UN to condemn the treatment of Muslims in China, not a single Muslim country supported the resolution, while a large number of those countries supported China.
3. Instead, Muslim countries agreed that the U.S. should:
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