When I was reading it, there were mostly posts critical of China in the thread and some whataboutist/denialist replies
You complain about the tankies’ whataboutist replies “critical of the USA and the west” - yet your very first comment up there proves that you, too, were very quick to bring the west into a discussion about Tiananmen.
but I’d like to urge people to avoid lemmy.ml hosted communities in favor of communities on more reasonable instances.
You think the liberal hive mind here on lemmy.world is (somehow) more “reasonable” than the views held by tankies?
By what metrics are you measuring this (alleged) “reasonable-ness”?