Hmm, you mean something like “If I hate oppression and oppression correlates with lack of democracy, does China’s oppression cause lack of democracy, or does China’s lack of democracy cause oppression? Or both, or neither?”
I don’t know. Figuring out causation is a big problem, not just for this issue, but for all issues—a relevant post is Timeless Causality
That establishes correlation. What do I do to establish causation?
Hmm, you mean something like “If I hate oppression and oppression correlates with lack of democracy, does China’s oppression cause lack of democracy, or does China’s lack of democracy cause oppression? Or both, or neither?”
I don’t know. Figuring out causation is a big problem, not just for this issue, but for all issues—a relevant post is Timeless Causality