chunghuaming

Please tell me where you are from that you're being oppressed by US right now, not 10 years ago or 100 years ago.

Also, US isn't the only democracy in the world (it's actually a representative republic, but anyways).

Which democracy are you responding to? Japan? Taiwan? South Korea? Lithuania? Australia? India? France? Germany? Canada?

There are more democracies being threatened by China than just US.

This is a thread about Chinese citizens quickly and surely losing their freedom. Why wouldn't my upgraded comment be relevant?

Also, do you have anything to refute my comment?

I doubt you're getting the accurate picture still

> lived there

China is fast devolving into dicatorship's way of life. 2+ years away is along time.

> keep in contact with many friends

Those friends are afraid to say anything negative to a foreigner living outside the guo on a platform closely watched by the government

> consume a lot of TV and podcasts from there

Government approved safe and patriotic contents

You have to be a native citizen who is living there 10+ years to understand

Doubtful, Xi Jing Ping is hellbent on destroying the Chinese tech industry right now

You call it jingoism. I call it rise against dictatorships destroying democracy's way of life.

As an average Chinese citizen right now:

- You cannot travel abroad (no passport issued for average citizens, except for those that study/work abroad)

- You cannot go beyond China's intranet legally (VPN is technically illegal in China). VPN services keep getting slowed/banned.

- You cannot transfer much money out of country legally (50k limit a year, but you end up going to bank 10+ times just to be able to transfer 10k)

- You cannot watch Spiderman, BTS, squid game, porn and many many more things legally

- You have very little rights as LGBT

- You have to work 9-9-6. Which is why many citizens are lying flat (not working/pursuing marriage)

- You are constantly watched, monitored, "invited" to police station for tea, banned for posts that contain any words that are on the growing banned list

- You should not get rich (1/3 of billionaires have died or disappeared). The state discourages showing off wealth

- You have little recourse as a woman who is abused by men in power

- You are constantly subjugated to random mass covid testing, standing hours outside in the cold

- Oh and there's the yearly flood + shoddy buildings + crashing economy + crashing real estate + aging workforce + factory jobs leaving + dictatorship

终究怀揣的不安，是愈来愈近的丧钟声

There are way less Chinese tourists in Europe/US now. I think they might just be oversea Chinese students in US and western world, looking to travel.

This sounds like a paid endorsement sponsored by CCP. No real refutes, just brush air away by hand.

You visited a few times huh? I was born and lived there for 30 years.