China believes that it imprisons people who are doing things that are harmful to its society. That's an assumption. Their actions seem to indicate it is far le

China believes that it imprisons people who are doing things that are harmful to its society. That's an assumption. Their actions seem to indicate it is far less about harm to society and more to do with harm to Governments "status quo". I think your conspiracy theory about China's poor regions is fairly off the wall. Look at the mountains and rivers and see how there are not good shipping routes, etc. None of those things are insurmountable. And China has not been attempting to surmount them. Thus my point.