Originally Posted by
montesquieu
To say nothing of their increasing development of a surveillance state that far surpasses anything in the West, and their disgraceful bullying behaviour over Taiwan.
I've spent a lot of time over the last 15 years or so in both mainland China and Taiwan and frankly, developments since Xi came to power are quite chilling. Not least in their effects on freedom of speech - you simply won't find a mainlander with any sort of political opinion openly expressed, as a report back can be career ending. We have a lot of East Asian academics through for dinner parties and the difference between the Chinese ones and the Taiwanese ones is frankly enormous - that's not down to 'culture' (much of which is shared, despite the depredations inflicted by the CCP), it's down to a state run using methods of ever-increasing repression and fear. Ten years ago it was nowhere near as bad as this.
+1
Recently I had an in-depth discussion with two Taiwanese academics and once they realised I was open to having a honest discussion regarding mainland China they became very open as to their opinions on what was happening with Xi etc. As you say quite chilling.
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