Chinese Government Support

You act as if the Chinese populace doesn't broadly suppprt their government, including these kinds of restrictions.

It's only normal in China because if you speak against it you and your family are disappeared. So, not really normal. The CCP can admit to a lot of bad things under these oppressive conditions.

It's not difficult at all to find Chinese people in China who criticize the government in private conversations about politics.What's often shocking to Westerners, however, is that most people in and from China have a fairly positive view of their country. If you start telling them that China is a dystopian nightmare, yada yada, and they push back, it's because they actually don't agree with you, and may even be offended. If they're silent, it's most likel

This certainly speaks for itself and is a drastic measure. Be aware of a strong anti-chinese bias in the general US media, though. James Fallows (spent some years in China as senior editor for The Atlantic and has written lots of articles about China) has often argued that it's not as extreme of a picture as is often presented in the mainstream media. The Chinese government has relaxed quite a topics of regulation in the last years (e.g. introduced some kind of property laws for farmers, for the

I'm not even sure where to start with this. It's a complex issue and I appreciate the source.China is putting people into forced labour (or concentration) camps en-mass. Its arrested or exiled thousands of HK democracy protestors. Its going backwards on democracy and rule of law. Not to mention causing the largest pandemic of the 21st century (so far). Its support for North Korea is another whole mess. Oh, and it almost started a war with the neighbouring nuclear power.If people

China is not a totalitarian regime - you shouldn't believe all the propaganda out there, you should actually go there yourself and you'll find that you can live your life quite normally and happily.China's identity isn't based on a single ethnic identity - the various restrictions (such as the now-3-child-policy, and permanent immigration between cities) apply to everyone. In fact ethnic minorities generally get preferential treatment - e.g. looser restrictions, affirmativ

It really depends on the level of repression or how smart the authority imposes it. West media depicts China’s repression as if it’s the same level as North Korea and then people believe it —- it’s far from it and in fact has very little impact on student and researchers life. The China’s authority did it in a way that’s almost transparent, that’s not too hard given the the overall awareness for citizen rights among Chinese people

People in China are quite aware of the fact that the "thought police" are out there, and poke fun at it all the time. They also know they are a developing country. I hypothesize that the government gets away with this only because it's still developing, and not enough people care about political stuff like this... yet.

The assumption being that most Chinese feel absolutely free to disparage their government...?

I don't understand why people are down voting this comment, as I think it is an accurate reflection of what many mainland Chinese would consider an honest and balanced opinion. When the primary goal of the last generation has been stability and the promotion of economic growth over personal freedoms and liberties, this is probably the opinion many non Chinese would have when placed in a similar situation. This does not exist the complete hypocrisy of the Chinese government, but I think i