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That was a well written article which accurately covered what's going on. But after reading it, I felt admiration for the bravery of the journalist and immediat
by iliketosleep 8y ago
That was a well written article which accurately covered what's going on. But after reading it, I felt admiration for the bravery of the journalist and immediate concern for her safety. She is of Chinese ethnicity and will be deemed to be a traitor to China as far as the Party is concerned - a very serious offence. There is absolutely no doubt she will be targeted in one way or another, and if she has family in China the Party will use them to get to her. This is not an exaggeration, and shows how bad the situation really is.
- jhanschoo 8y agoIt isn't improbable that the author and her immediate family is in the US, and that the Party will have limited reach on the author.
- iliketosleep 8y agoAccording to her online bio, she moved to the US when she was 8. That means her immediate family are probably in the US, but she'd have extended family in China.
- ksec 8y agoI don't think the "extended family " will be a problem if both families haven been in touch for well over two decades.
- ttflee 8y agoExtended family does not seem to matter. The brother of one of the top leaders of the party (Yu Zhengsheng) has defected to the US long before Yu being elected into PBSC (Politburo Standing Committee), the board of directors for China inc.
- fjsolwmv 8y agoIndeed. For all of modern Communist China's problems, taking revenge on family members isn't known to be one of them. They focus on a individual's own loyalty to the state and whoever holds power. As is to be expected, as part of the point of Communism is to destroy the family unit and replace it with the state. This is different from, for example, Japan, where their are explicit laws mandating familial responsibility for (adult, not only juvenile) relatives.
- yourbandsucks 8y agoWow, you started great there and then went off the rails. Why does everybody bring grade-school lessons about Russian communism to the current Chinese situation? The cultural revolution ended a long time ago and they're not proud of it. Chinese society is extremely family-oriented. Xi Jinping has been much more aggressive with government power than his immediate predecessors, but his biggest themes are conservative and traditional. Lots of taoism and confucius. I'd posit that their government doesn't go after (han chinese) families because it turns one dissident into 50.