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Note that in Australia I know first hand of Chinese university students having their families back home threatened due to them participating in protests. I hav
by threeseed 4y ago
Note that in Australia I know first hand of Chinese university students having their families back home threatened due to them participating in protests.
I have no doubt that this is not just about criminal activity but any activity that the PRC does not approve of.
- fennecfoxy 4y agoAdditionally there was the video of that protest in Australia over China related stuff where Chinese people stepped in to assault the protestors.
- Kognito 4y agoThere was a similar situation during the pandemic in the UK, I know of individuals whose parents in the PRC were contacted by the authorities to “encourage” their kids studying abroad to stay abroad, lest they risk bringing covid back home.
- bigcat12345678 4y agoThis seems a normal reaction
- phpisthebest 4y agoI would say it was a common reaction, but it should not be considered "normal"
- anony999 4y agoTraveling during a pandemic is not normal so I find the advice not to travel back home during a pandemic is totally normal. Doing otherwise puts everyone at risk (the traveler, people who he/she interacts with during the journey and the host/home country)
- phpisthebest 4y agoI am equally sure you probably support lock-downs, mandatory vaccination, mandatory masking, and all manner of other Draconian actions Where me and others did not, I did not find these things to be "normal" either. It all depends on where you place the freedom vs safety metric, I place on the far extreme end of freedom. Which is also why I oppose governments like China in general
- nl 4y agoThat's the opposite of the problem called out in this article.
- JCharante 4y agoMy university in the US did the same. They encouraged students to stay put during winter break. Are they evil now?
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoSimilar to when a Tibetan student was elected to student council at U of T in Canada: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/china-tibet-student-election-1.5019648 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/china-tibet-student-e...
- jollybean 4y agoIt's common, in the open, and Western Governments are too afraid to do anything material about it. That tells you who has power. It's bad.
- BurningFrog 4y agoWhat, concretely, would western governments do about this?
- weard_beard 4y agoArrest and trade any Chinese spies (that’s what they are. There’s no such thing as foreign secret police. They’re called spies and terrorists) and barter them for Chinese political prisoners coerced in this way.
- vbezhenar 4y agoDo you understand that China will arrest some American citizens afterwards and will trade them for those "spies"? Some western people are completely out of bounds. You're basically suggesting trading humans. It's called slavery. To arrest someone and trade him for someone. What's going on. You're not the only person suggesting it. I saw similar comments on other websites. For example someone suggested to arrest some random Russian sportsman and trade him for American sportsman girl who was arrested because of marihuana found on her in airport. It's just wrong. It creates all the kinds of wrong incentives. If you think that someone is a spy and you can prove it, go ahead and put him in jail or deport him or apply whatever measures law requires. But no human trading.
- ksec 4y agoWell, any activity that the PRC does not approve of is criminal activity.