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Originally Posted by MGR1
Assuming the Chinese care, of course. One of my work colleagues taught English in Western China for a few years (married a local girl and had a kid, they're both in the UK now) and he has said that the average Chinese doesn't give a toss about foreign opinion.
Not unlike Japan, the average citizen of China is very uninterested, bordering on insular, in their attitudes to what goes on outside their country. They don't like anyone "sticking their noses" into what they regard as China's internal affairs.
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The average Chinese citizen is not what the world and us foreigners must be concerned of. Its their state, their intel service and their highly sophisticated abilities of automatted internet surveillance - and their growing aggressiveness against anythign and everybody voicing opinions directed against the party's regime. Not just Chinese and Taiwanese and Hong Kongers, but all foreigners worldwide.
Turkey does the same, persecuting critics of its regime in foreign nations as well. Those of Turkish decendance - and sometimes even foreigners without a single gene of Turkishness in them.
I miss the cold war, when an agent was needed to sit at a telephone and overhear telephone conversations. Today its all automatted, AI, high speed systemic reaction, automatted file creation, automatted sorting. Human signal overload is no longer an argument against omnipresent intel surveillance.
Its stupid to expose yourself to the risk of entering such regime's reach if you became critical of them in electronic media at any time.
Or do you think what Snowden revealed about the US' abilities already one and a half decade ago meanwhile is not being reached by the Chinese as well - if not surpassed...?