China surpassed the United States in global approval ratings in 2025, with a median of 36% approving of China’s leadership, compared with 31% for the U.S. China’s five-percentage-point advantage over the U.S. is the widest Gallup has recorded in China’s favor in nearly 20 years.

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            None of this changes the fact that Iran just murdered thousands of people.

            Lemme guess, you think Russia were justified in their invasion of Ukraine and Kim Jong Un is an alright guy.

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                Easy.

                You don’t believe Iran is a despitic theocratic regime capable of murdering thousands of its own citizens.

                Its not a stretch to assume you believe Russia is on the right side of history as well.

                Also, for some reason you think I support the american attacks. I dont. Like I wrote in my first post.

                And somehow you think America’s attacks mean Iran is innocent.

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                    The American attacks were the protests, that’s the point you’re not understanding or refusing to acknowledge. They were not organic protests. I doubt most that participated were citizens, especially when 99% of the coverage was prewritten by NED-linked organizations.

                    I’ve just been reading along this thread and I think this is the part I don’t understand.

                    Is the idea here that the protests were Americans? I’m not sure I understand what you mean by ‘The American attacks were the protests’.

                    Beyond that, if we accept strictly what Iran has released about the number of protestors killed it is still an incredible amount of violence for a two day period. The fact that the Iranian regime released the same number, 3117, for number of deaths on multiple different occasions regarding these protests is odd — it would indicate to me that the number is false and probably higher.

                    Simply trying to understand what your point is here — I don’t necessarily disagree with most of what you’ve said. Specifically I agree with you that if we’d just left Iran alone things would have turned out much differently and much more positively for them.

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      Don’t waste your time talking to tankies

      At least this one gives it away with his name. Usually their simping for China gives them away.

      They only accept their little cesspit of information as facts. Everything else is conspiracy theories or state funded propaganda.