Do the Chinese people deserve some blame with the current situation in China?

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Well...

Do the red avatars here deserve blame for the state the USA is in today and for the degradation of established democratic and human rights ideals the USA used to stood for?

Given the majority votes yes here, i would say yes too on that question.

If one considers that offensive, than maybe your yes vote was offensive to some others.

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Mao was also better than nationalist Japan at the time, remember the deliberate flooding and killing of at least 1 million people? It's like using a nuclear bomb on your own people.

Mao was bad, the others were just worse.

Taiwan > Modern China tho but Taiwan is only good because it is Taiwan and not alt-modern Nationalist China which likely would've gone authoritarian as well.

Taiwan should strive to become independent from China and renounce claims on mainland China (in exchange for vice versa).