"I'm shocked by the amount of anti-China bias on HN"<p>I think any bias that exists is not so much anti China as anti authoritarianism, anti-democracy, anti-suppression-of-freedom-of-speech, anti-bunch-of-thugs-killing-people-for-having-a-different-opinion etc.<p>I doubt it is really China specific. It is just that the present  Chinese government  is a nasty ruthless authoritarian dictatorship. The same arguments would be raised  here against, say North Korea or Saudi Arabia in other circumstances.<p>People here seemed to be biased towards democracy, rule of law(even with occasional lapses), freedom of expression(even with an occasional lapse or imperfection)  etc etc. Not sure it is a bad bias to have.