The most repressive regime in the world (aside of North Korea)?

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Herding the Uighurs into concentration camps basically gives this to China in a rout.

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Herding the Uighurs into concentration camps basically gives this to China in a rout.

You're saying that one thing - putting people in camps  based on their ethnicity - is enough to win a nation "more repressive in the world (other than North Korea)"? You may want to re-think that. (For the record, the US, even under Trumpy the wanna-be dictator and his party, is far better than China, and China in turn is far from the worst.)

Beep boop.

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In all seriousness, China might be more modern and have many of the trappings of a free society than most of the other candidates, but they've industrialized oppression in bizarre and horrific ways. The Uighur camps, the mass executions of prisoners and dissidents for the purpose of harvesting and selling their organs, the social credit system and aggressive encouragement of reporting on their fellow citizens...I find it hard to find another non-NK regime that's worse.

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Assad bombs civilian centers literally every day, specifically to make the opposition as radicalized as possible so he can build legitimacy to keep fighting them. Hard to beat that.

I think both Syria and Venezuela are odd cases because of how chaotic they are. The government simply isn't in firm enough control to qualify. They're horror shows of a different breed.