China: Why are we pretending?

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Why do you assume this? There is no evidence of this. They have no constitution guaranteeing civil rights of any kind.

Actually, they do.

In March, 2004, an amendment was made to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, stating ""The State respects and preserves human rights." [1]. It was hoped in the West that this heralded a change in attitude from the Communist Party of China, but subsequent violations of human rights and previously established civil rights demonstrated that the ammendnent had not changed government policy regarding public freedom. As with other Chinese guarantees of individual liberties in the Constitution, the wording suggests that such liberties are already observed and respected, rather than explicitly prohibiting the government from infringing on such rights (as the United States Constitution does).

See. They were good guys for about 10 seconds.