A better analogy would be the U.S. reaction to 9/11. The United States did not round up American Muslims, put them in camps, gave them track suits to wear, put "Real Americans" in their Muslim homes to keep an eye on them, and make them work slave labor.
China did that to it's citizens. Tens of thousands of them, soon after a terrorist attack.
China has had some experience with anarchy. It's ugly, raider gangs kill those who were in power, and then vie for power amongst themselves .. killing, raping, burning and looting... sometimes for decades before a new dynasty emerges. It has happened time and again in China's two thousand year history. That is why the country has a preference for strong central government over liberty. The Chinese are well aware of the horrors that lie when central authority crumbles.
America's Civil War wasn't nearly as savage as China's dynasty changes.
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