• 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    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.

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      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.

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        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.