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[-] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can either:

  1. Not visit China

Cons: Not being able to revisit places I've been to that I always wanted to go.

Pros: Being safe from an authoritarian government that's increasingly regressing back to totalitarianism

  1. Visit China

Pros: I can visit places I always wanted to revisit

Cons: Being arrested in China, placed on exit ban, tortured, or executed. And if I somehow leave unharmed, upon returning to the US, I could be accused of being a communist spy due to rising US-China tensions, possibly spending time in prison because of a second red scare.

Potential consequences are not worth it.

Tourism is not worth being tortured.

[-] 133arc585@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago

Being arrested in China, placed on exit ban, tortured, or executed.

What do you plan on doing in China? You must have quite the crime spree planned.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just being Canadian is enough if the CCP is playing games.

[-] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Do you not understand US-China tensions? Both countries fear each other, and someone who've lived in the US for practically their entire life suddenly wants to visit China? That'd definitely raise some alarms about a potential spy. Maybe nothing happens, maybe they falsely assume I'm a spy.

Same thing when I return to the US, those border agents are gonna ask me why I went to my China during these times of high tensions.

There are risks from both countries. Whereas if China was democratic and US-friendly, none of these would be an issue.

Do you know how many people in the US were falsely arrested? That's in a democratic country. Think about those odds if it were an authoritarian one.

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