> Every country does it. Doing it is a central function of having a government.

You are falling back on whataboutism. This is irrelevant. If we were having a similar debate in the middle ages, you would probably say something like:

> Every church is burning witches and heretics at the stake. Doing it is a central function of having a church.

The CCP has abducted these individuals and is preventing them from leaving the country. This is not ok. You can't justify this by saying "yeah, but they're the government, so it's their right to abduct whoever they want". A government is just a corporation with a bit more power than the others, not some sacred entity that sits above us.