I lived in China for many years when I was younger and more naive, most of my friends were/are from Tsinghua/Peking/etc, and I actually do understand Chinese. J

I lived in China for many years when I was younger and more naive, most of my friends were/are from Tsinghua/Peking/etc, and I actually do understand Chinese. Just because you don't see it happen with your own eyes then it doesn't mean that it isn't happening. For instance, while living in Chicago I didn't encounter a single shooting incident, but it would be foolish to believe USA doesn't have a gun problem. What I can say that a foreigner living in China will experience is 9/10 hotels and apartments refusing to let you stay there, even had landlord call my friend to kick me out of the apartment (happened twice, separate occassions). I also had a female foreign friend who got into trouble because she refused to sleep with a visa officer. It's possible to live in China for several years without problems, but it's only a matter of time before something happens, and then your whole world falls apart, because according to their laws a minor offense (e.g. something equivalent to jaywalking) that might result in a 50-100 dollar fine for Chinese people, can result in a foreigner getting deported and banned for 1-5 years, and it's something that happens a lot even if the foreigner lived in China for several years with no issues. And there's no process of appeal. It's also important to remember that pretty much every foreigner is breaking some silly laws, even if they don't realize it (e.g. by not going to the police when you move to a new place). I also had multiple Chinese friends who weren't allowed to get visa to travel abroad to western countries, it was funnily enough always the 20-something girls, so I presume it's because the government fear they'll try to escape. Also, in China you have no freedom of speech, no freedom of movement, no freedom of association, no religious freedom, no political freedom.. punishments include being sent to prison, concentration camps, murdered and having organs harvested. Overall, it's quite the shithole, and as we can see with Tibet, Hong Kong, South China Sea, Taiwan, etc. Xi appear to have similar ambitions as Hitler did, so it's not like the rest of the world can just ignore the shithole. So naturally, China have a terrible view among pretty much everyone outside of China, especially those who care about human rights.