Oh wow, I just realized you optimize American ignorance.
After Tiananmen, the Chinese government realized their mistakes and instead of spending agonizing time to find all the assailants, they decided instead to reform. They spent the next decades doing capitalist reforms and trying to improve everyone's lives after that incident leading to today where China is unquestionably just behind USA.
After Jan 6th, US decided the best thing to do with it's time is to hunt down everyone at the Jan 6th riots. Creating a massive divide in the country. Causing friends and family to turn on each other. Because hunting down the rioters was more important to them than fixing the actual issues at hand.
You see this in the HK riots too. China only arrested the leaders, they let everyone else go. They aren't interested in identify exactly who did what, they know that cutting off the head is enough.
But then, that's the difference between western and eastern thought. Westerners are so individualistic they obsess over every individual. Eastern thought is that if we see something like this, there must be something structurally wrong and we need to fix it.
And I'll say again, after these riots is when China reformed and changed their laws, not hunt down individuals. Where as in the US, the Americans say their laws are absolute and they need to hunt down every individual.
*Edit: And while you may not agree with China's law changes and say they're oppressive, the simple reality is, when China sees structural issues like this, they're open to change.
And, also, no, if they had any piece of the weapon they could id its manufacturer.
Yes, I know this, in fact I've been saying it over and over if they had the gun. But no they didn't go around digging through the corpses to find all the data. Again, I get that YOU want them to, but they didn't. And again, this is why China just says fuck you. Because it's none of your god damn business what they choose to do. They chose to sweep up everything as quickly as possible and return things to normal, not go out of their way to hunt the protestors. China isn't as revenge obsessed as Americans.
… Every country makes its own database, honey. There isnt a single database.
Bingo and as I said over and over China didn't invest a lot into this. So they didn't have the data to trace. It's not rocket science.
*Edit: Also, it's not like I said they couldn't trace anything. I said they could trace to type at the time, but not as detailed as manufacturer. You'd need enough data to do that and they didn't think it was important to collect to that level.
Ah yes Europe, the Asianest of continents. Wait no it's not. One of the problems China had was that the west wasn't sharing all the data with them. It's cute again that the west thinks they're the international world. But guess what, Asia never felt that way. It's literally one of the dividing issues. Again, so ignorant.
*Edit: Also it's important to note that I'm not saying China couldn't match a barrel to a gun. I'm saying China didn't have this magical database that could let it identify to the manufacturer. It simply wasn't important to China at the time to match to manufacturer. If they found the murder weapon it was enough for them to identify the murderer.
*Edit 2: Wait in 1933 was just the standardization of how to identify barrel to gun. There was no database at that time. You're just makin stuff up to trick me. WHEN DID THIS MAGICAL DATABASE EXIST!?
WHATABOUTISM RAWR RAWR that we should ignore US crimes because China bad.
Dismissals that China totally arrests more even though we have no data on that.
That said, I do apologize for not making that clear in my original statement. I wasn't trying to say that the UN found no problems at all, only that the problems it found isn't special or unique, but most importantly that it does not constitute genocide that the US is insisting is happening.
Wow, such an American thing to say. Hey the world isn't America, we don't all have gun violence problems. It shouldn't be surprising that China didn't invest in ballistic forensics as much as America did. But to YOU, not having good ballistic forensics is the same as having no idea about basic crime investigation.
Hey, here's another secret, crime existed before guns. Crime investigation existed before guns. Not all countries had psychopaths like the US toting guns and shooting everyone that ballistic forensics became important.
Like I said, china was backwards in many things at that time. The reason all their weapons were Soviet was because they didn't know how to even begin to make their own. The Chinese story is one of coming from nothing in the 80s and 90s to becoming a super power in the 20s.
So yeah, their military definitely didn't meet the gold standard at that time.
What about it.
And thus, again, why China just says fuck you. There's no reason to let anyone know where in advancement stages china was in.
At that time, very. That's actually well known. China's boom didn't really start until the early 2000. Which is why America likes to say that they created China.
But all that is actually not the point. It's not an issue of incompetence but simply not keeping stacks of useless data about minor forensic differences in bullets. As with most places at that time, you'd just have enough to give you type of gun but not make and manufacturer. I'm not even sure that US would have had it at that time.
*Edit and China didn't care at the time because unlike the violent shithole that is America, they didn't have a lot of gun crime.
A collection of sortable data points. Guess what isn't easy to sort, stacks of paper. No one had a "database" of forensic markings to compare anything to back then. Which is why they compared it to the barrels. Sure once you get computers and stuff you could use that to collect data points and sort, but you ain't doing that with paper.
Otherwise, why even have computers?
*Edit: Oh wait is this your thinking of how SKS are handcrafted? The world doesn't work that way.
Yeah, things they didn't have in the 89s. Thanks for confirming you have no idea what you're talking about. A database of gun type forensics. Yeah all those super computers in China back then.
I like people to be interested and want the info. I don't know if you've noticed from my conversation here, the majority of people just want to argue with me and not actually learn something.
I didn't say anyone handcrafted anything. I said you can't tell the difference between a Russian SKS and a Chinese one. You're the weird one talking about handcrafting.
Also, no you can't tell the difference forensically from a Russian vs Chinese SKS unless you had the gun. They were literally made with the same tools. But you don't know that do you?
Oh wow, I just realized you optimize American ignorance.
After Tiananmen, the Chinese government realized their mistakes and instead of spending agonizing time to find all the assailants, they decided instead to reform. They spent the next decades doing capitalist reforms and trying to improve everyone's lives after that incident leading to today where China is unquestionably just behind USA.
After Jan 6th, US decided the best thing to do with it's time is to hunt down everyone at the Jan 6th riots. Creating a massive divide in the country. Causing friends and family to turn on each other. Because hunting down the rioters was more important to them than fixing the actual issues at hand.
You see this in the HK riots too. China only arrested the leaders, they let everyone else go. They aren't interested in identify exactly who did what, they know that cutting off the head is enough.
But then, that's the difference between western and eastern thought. Westerners are so individualistic they obsess over every individual. Eastern thought is that if we see something like this, there must be something structurally wrong and we need to fix it.
And I'll say again, after these riots is when China reformed and changed their laws, not hunt down individuals. Where as in the US, the Americans say their laws are absolute and they need to hunt down every individual.
*Edit: And while you may not agree with China's law changes and say they're oppressive, the simple reality is, when China sees structural issues like this, they're open to change.