What is it like? What do they think of the west over there?

Is it as eeeevil and authoritarian as the western media says it is?

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Sounds like a nice place with its own ups and downs like any country.

    And I know you’re kidding but what does “evil and authoritarian” mean exactly?

    I mean the things the west accuses China of sometimes. Accusations of a surveillance/police state that censors people and makes people 'disappear' if they speak badly of the government. You know, those kinds of things.

    • Krem [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      a surveillance/police state that censors people and makes people ‘disappear’ if they speak badly of the government.

      Probably does happen to some extent. I'm no expert and I've never heard any personal anecdote or seen anything to suggest it, but stuff like the Causeway Books affair in HK for example makes me think "disappearing" of "free speech/human rights advocates" happens in some cases.

      • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        That's really interesting. It's cool to get insight from someone who has lived there because everything I hear about China is from the perspective of... well, people who have never lived there. Lol.

        Thanks for sharing! 👍