Well, call me a tankie, but I don’t see the issue with a coup attempt leaving ~240 dead (mostly policemen and radical communist protestors), or the government cracking down on extremists after absolutely massive terrorist attacks. Both have happened in my country (Spain), much worse than there, and I see no one complaining. And even that is nothing compared to what the US did after 9/11!
Everybody seems to pretend that they would not actually want the government to take such actions if their life was in such danger. Like, hell, if I had as many terrorist attacks in my region as Xinjiang used to have, I would be cheering for the government to nuke all extremists from orbit. That’s what happened here and we had a fraction of that.
Edit: also, I’ve never heard of those events in Spanish media, if I were from the US I would really wonder why I hear about them so much. So hopefully when everybody’s sent to die in Taiwan I don’t fall for the old trick of manufactured consent.
Edit: I promise to do some moro thorough research on the events. Thanks for your thoughtful responses.