> How about we hear from some Chinese people about how they feel about the developments? How open do you think a typical Chinese person is going to be with you

> How about we hear from some Chinese people about how they feel about the developments? How open do you think a typical Chinese person is going to be with you about how they think about their government's censorship? Unless they know and trust you really well, they're probably not going to criticize it to you even if they hate it. There are strong Chinese cultural taboos against criticizing your in-group in front of outsiders. These taboos operate from the level of the family up to the level of the country. See: https://cn.nytimes.com/world/20170524/chinese-student-fresh-air-yang-shuping/en-us/ https://cn.nytimes.com/world/20170524/chinese-student-fresh-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuping_Yang_commencement_speech_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuping_Yang_commencement_spee... > The outrage seems to be coming entirely from people with no real stake in this news. Everyone has a stake in this news. The Chinese government has shown increasing willingness to strong-arm Western companies actions in the West by holding their Chinese operations hostage. See a notable example in its recent actions over the treatment of Taiwan on airline websites (https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/25/news/companies/taiwan-china-airlines/index.html https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/25/news/companies/taiwan-china...). Totally ignoring the morality of enabling authoritarian censorship in a foreign country, non-Chinese still have an interest keeping the domestic influence of that censorship regime to a minimum.