&#62; <i>The US/UK empire has done all of the same, and only after using those techniques to gain superpower and first-world status, we start criticizing others for doing it.</i><p>So at what specific point have they done an 'equal amount of evil' to us so that we can start criticizing them for 'doing more evil than we did?' Without an answer to this question your point is that we can't criticize China for anything <i>ever.</i> This seems a bit extreme to me.<p>In a similar vein, are you advocating that African Americans should be able to own slaves as long as they are 'white' because 'White Americans' did in the past?<p>[EDIT] fixed some typos