This is a point many forget when talking about China. People bring up Tiananmen Square and the one child policy to talk about how evil China is. And don't get me wrong, to a certain extent both actions were wrong. But the U.S. had its own bloody civil war where the country killed hundreds of thousands of it's former citizens, not to mention the ways in which land was stolen from indigenous people. These violent actions the U.S. took are one of the reasons the country (and even the world) are so wealthy today.