Considering what we Americans do with our right to speak out about the government and what's going on within the government, inclusive of us having the right to vote, I'm not seeing the benefit in this "free speech".   We're a train wreck of under-handed politicians not ruling in the best interests of their citizens.

I wasn't wrong about the SK THAAD timeline.  I just didn't mention the boycott in China of S. Korea product.  S. Korea had to shut businesses in China.  I'm not sure China suffered as much as S. Korea.  S. Korea imports from China twice what it exports to China.

Tibet's been a disputed region of the Chinese/Mongol empire since the 7th century.  Tibet was under rule by a group of locals put in power by China.  Arguably Tibet started it by expelling Chinese when Mao took over.  BTW, 87,000 Tibetians died in that initial war, far less than the 300,000 we killed with our Iraq war.

Nope.  We're not better; today we're arguably worse than China in some ways.