My personal experience with Chinese police is that they are very friendly and helpful, especially to clueless foreigners. I generally didn't see them much except for in areas where people gather and they didn't seem like a threatening presence at all. Also, I don't think I recall any of them being armed with firearms, though obviously I'm sure they have them.
Surveillance is much more obvious there (as opposed to hidden mass surveillance in the US), as public CCTV cameras were fairly common, but it was also probably the safest place I've ever been to. Wasn't unusual to see young kids running around without parents at night in a city of 14 million people, which was kinda crazy to me. In fact, I once encountered 2 kids at a park who had a grocery bag full of Red Bull cans, and they gave me one as a gift:
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EDIT: Also at that same park they had a monument to students murdered by the KMT at the end of their civil war, which was interesting:
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And a couple of pics of some rad communist propaganda I saw nearby:
My personal experience with Chinese police is that they are very friendly and helpful, especially to clueless foreigners. I generally didn't see them much except for in areas where people gather and they didn't seem like a threatening presence at all. Also, I don't think I recall any of them being armed with firearms, though obviously I'm sure they have them.
Surveillance is much more obvious there (as opposed to hidden mass surveillance in the US), as public CCTV cameras were fairly common, but it was also probably the safest place I've ever been to. Wasn't unusual to see young kids running around without parents at night in a city of 14 million people, which was kinda crazy to me. In fact, I once encountered 2 kids at a park who had a grocery bag full of Red Bull cans, and they gave me one as a gift:
EDIT: Also at that same park they had a monument to students murdered by the KMT at the end of their civil war, which was interesting:
And a couple of pics of some rad communist propaganda I saw nearby:
In red china children are nice instead of little bastards?? Socialism makes kids friendly instead???
We will acquire the 'Red' Bull in China. Drink that fucking hongniu.