> Accusing people of being Anti-Asian or Orientalist is a classic CCP propaganda technique. Just because it's propaganda doesn't mean it's not true. Sure the c

> Accusing people of being Anti-Asian or Orientalist is a classic CCP propaganda technique. Just because it's propaganda doesn't mean it's not true. Sure the chinese are using it for their propaganda. It's not their fault we make it so laughably easy for them. > It is certainly true that the COVID tracking and Social Credit mechanisms are no where near as automated as some would believe (and perhaps fetishize), but it is not true that they somehow don't exist or don't have consequences. There are interviews of chinese people on youtube about the covid tracking and social credit propaganda online. The chinese people laugh at it because the propaganda is so absurd. Here's a clue. If you see propaganda on mainstream media and joe rogan/"alt-right" and they agree, it's most likely absolute absurdity. > you need to realize that as a foreign citizen your hotel is required to report you to police for each night that you stay, and they will track you down, if they need to, and your host will be held accountable (possibly jailed) for failing to report your location. You realize that in europe and most other nations ( including taiwan, singapore, korea, etc ) around the world, hotels take your passport from you right when you check-in. It's good that they track foreigners because you don't belong there. > This is not at all like the rest of Asia (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Signapore etc) and conflating them together is a huge mistake. You sure about that? You do realize that china studied and modeled much of their society off of singapore, japan, korea, etc. I think you are understating how "authoritarian" these countries are. > and it can definitely prevent you from buying train or plane tickets or getting a job, passport, university entrance Every country has had this forever. You do realize that in many countries, if your "social credit" isn't good, you can't buy a house, get a job or even vote. > Yes, we need to look at our own issues, but that doesn't mean ignoring (or normalizing) those which exist elsewhere. Even if those issues don't exist? Even if these "issues" are manufactured to attack a country? It's funny how so many people suddenly care about muslims, chinese, etc all of a sudden. But you really care about the chinese people right?