Oh you’re absolutely right about the punishing those who don’t agree with the state. But as of now they already do punish by sending them into a black cell disa

Oh you’re absolutely right about the punishing those who don’t agree with the state. But as of now they already do punish by sending them into a black cell disappearing forever. Xi has done this to anyone including multibillionaires and CCP highest ranking billionaires. When he was in charge of rooting out corruption, he went after enemies to shore up political support. A group of highly influential CCP elites wrote a letter disagreeing with the road to tyranny and I believe every one of them disappeared. I’m sure the system has abuses, I think it is opaque but not sure but I imagine beaurocrats will abuse it with petty grudges and bribes. Just in this case, I’m glad China is cracking down on scientific fraud and I prefer these measures to jail. I don’t think going against the state’s narrative for hard sciences is possible. For policy, sociology, history, I’m sure there is already an iron hand there with no room to wiggle.