> I had friends woken in the night and interrogated about their political beliefs, and I had friends forced to flee for speaking out about gender rights and oth

> I had friends woken in the night and interrogated about their political beliefs, and I had friends forced to flee for speaking out about gender rights and other social issues. Oppression in China is real and effective. > It’s difficult for me to imagine a better place to have lived for the past two decades than China. I cannot understand how one mind could [fail to] reconcile these two statements. Obviously a place without state terrorism would be better! The author writes about political oppression as though it were merely a color of paint!