>They just don't give a fuck and we western nations place our greed and capitalism over our morals.
You really have some catching up to do with regards to the modern history of western nations...
From enslaving billions of people in their colonies up to the 60s (and still in tens of still non freed nations) [1], to human zoos [2], to slavery [3], to gasing 6 million people to death [4], to 2 world wars [5], to nuking civilians [6], to killing democracies and supporting dictatorships [7][8][9][10][11], to mass killing people asking for their freedom [10], to off-law prisons [11], to record incarceration rates [12], to record open-season police shootings [13], to seggregation [14][15][16], and so on (and we barely scratched the surface, plus all these are the polished, generally accepted "official" stories: the reality on the ground, and the stories of the actual victims are much bleaker and morbid) -- western nations hardly place anything over greed and capitalism.
True, I just wanted to point that those supposed "morals" aren't much to write home about either.
How I read the comment: western countries have morals, but they put them aside because of greed and ignore them when China does something bad.
The spirit of my answer: what morals? The western countries have done all that and much worse for centuries (not just ignoring morals when a valuable ally does something bad, but actively doing bad themselves). It's not some momentarily lapse of morals that just applies to this particular case.
I think it is important to distinguish between morals-as-statements and morals-as-actions. All GP is saying is that the actions of the Chinese state, while against western morals (as stated), are permitted by the (in)action of western states. They're not claiming western moral superiority (which would admit such a tu quoque argument as you present), or claiming that western states act morally (which as you point out is demonstrably false). I think you're reading too much into it.
Are we arguing with exceptionalists who are angry at our suggestion that there is no high ground to look down from or just people with poor reading comprehension?
You really have some catching up to do with regards to the modern history of western nations...
From enslaving billions of people in their colonies up to the 60s (and still in tens of still non freed nations) [1], to human zoos [2], to slavery [3], to gasing 6 million people to death [4], to 2 world wars [5], to nuking civilians [6], to killing democracies and supporting dictatorships [7][8][9][10][11], to mass killing people asking for their freedom [10], to off-law prisons [11], to record incarceration rates [12], to record open-season police shootings [13], to seggregation [14][15][16], and so on (and we barely scratched the surface, plus all these are the polished, generally accepted "official" stories: the reality on the ground, and the stories of the actual victims are much bleaker and morbid) -- western nations hardly place anything over greed and capitalism.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_colonialism [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_zoo [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war, [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a... [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta... [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intervention_in_... [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961 [11] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/aug/01/indonesia.comm... [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp [12] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/07/... [13] https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/unarmed/ [14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_Unit... [15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid [16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining