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The vast majority of Chinese people have no option but to continue to suffer the rules, although not a few are speaking up despite the likely consequences: htt
by rippercushions 4y ago
The vast majority of Chinese people have no option but to continue to suffer the rules, although not a few are speaking up despite the likely consequences:
https://www.thestatesman.com/world/tibetans-march-on-streets-against-chinese-governments-severe-covid-restrictions-1503127198.html https://www.thestatesman.com/world/tibetans-march-on-streets... (note that the protestors are by and large Chinese, not Tibetan)
Of the remaining privileged minority, many are choosing to GTFO.
- dylan604 4y agoOther than the money leaving the country, would those leaving essentially be the grease on the squeaky wheel? If they have the financial freedom to have the courage to speak out, but then use that financial position to GTFO, that essentially helps the CCP as there's a much lower volume of opposition.
- rippercushions 4y agoSuch is the dilemma of living or leaving a dictatorship. Also, it's one thing to stand on the barricades and risk prison when you're young and single, but it's a whole different level when you have family and you know the CCP will not hesitate to use them as pawns. (In Xinjiang, it's all too common for parents to get sent to reeducation camps, and the children end up in orphanages.)
- threatofrain 4y agoThis will probably be an unpopular position, but I think some things are a matter of settled strategic win. The CCP has won. You shouldn't fight a battle which results in your meaningless destruction. The CCP can only have a semblance of vulnerability if it terribly mismanages China, and so far it seems to be rather competent.