In theory yes, in practice we should then also cut ties with every other nation that committed a massacre or oppressed its population, which… checks notes… would be almost every nation.

Why not Turkey for the Armenian Genocide, why not Australia for the treatment of aboriginal people, why not the USA and Canada for the treatment of indigenous people? Why not Great Britain for conquering half of the planet and enslaving people?

Rich people never do anything financially adverse so virtue signaling is the only thing that works for them.

We'll see this finally happening when China attacks Taiwan.

Sorry for my ignorance, but what are 'tankies'?

So no business with the US?

Whataboutism

Well that was after the fall of the ussr and they want to build the narrative that communism is bad

Return your credit and visit my country. We will show what the true Chinese culture is. Since the CCP deleted all that after the civil war.

Germany and Italy are filled with monuments regarding their dark past (have never been to France and Spain and only very briefly to Belgium so I can't judge). I really don't know what you are talking about.

The difference is the other countries doesn't try to bury their dark past and lied about it to their own citizens, all while acting like the government is their savior.

@Stockente

This place should be filled with monuments of stuff European countries did but yeah, China bad. Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, UK, nothing to see here

This is not true, in these and practically all other European countries there are many monuments - unlike in China which has been rewriting its own history. Read more here, here, here ... you'll find more across the web.

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Isn’t Germany filled with monuments to their sins? And not mild ones, like the kind intended to make people stop and think about the people who had everyday lives snuffed out by their neighbors.

wadabout waaaaaaaaaa

What happened in Congo is taught in Belgian schools and widely known in Europe. Belgium was widely derided for it even at the time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casement_Report

Judging by your username, you're Turkish. Are you taught about the Armenian genocide in school?

Or is that one whataboutism too far?

@turkishdelight @Stockente

In addition to what @SevenOfWine said, we must note that you can openly discuss Belgian colonial history and atrocities in the public space. You can't discuss the Tiananmen Square massacre publicly in China, though, and the government in Beijing has been trying to hide this and other historical (and contemporary) atrocities committed by China for a long time now. Younger generations who didn't live through the events of 1989, for example, might not know what happened.

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This sub is basically european propaganda. It's like watching russian facebook