masonofchina

Disappearance does happen, but only in extremely rare occasions. Friends talking in private is 100% safe. Posting your opinion online is somewhat less safe but most of times the website take down your comment first and nothing happens. if you attract huge attention, or try to overtly cause riot, then you would be asking for trouble

Edit: disappearance sometimes just mean they are off grid. For example actress Fan Bin Bin’s disappearance made news on reddit, people saying she got locked up for tax evasion. Nope, months later she resurfaced, and turns out she’s just hiding her pregnancy. There are many cases like this creating confusion in west because you guys never read follow up article.

That's a HUGE topic. If I have to pick one, I would say Chinese people value economic development over other things. It's always economy first when talking about both domestic and foreign issues. Chinese people have the mentality that "development is the fundamental human rights", whereas the Americans focus on freedom of speech, democracy, etc. I personally have to side with former because I believe that although freedom is very valuable, and nice to have, we also have other goals that are equally important, such as the right of education, the freedom from starvation. In a "free society" you might have the freedom to travel wherever you want, but it would not be practically possible without decent income. For Chinese people, past few years saw expansion of our "real freedom" due to economic growth

it's a "we don't speak of such things" kind of situation.

Edit: so many user ask me why wouldn’t we straight up rebel. That because we all have jobs, families, properties and are living an increasingly good life. Avoiding talking about that is a minor inconvenience compared with for example rising rent. It’s easy for American sitting in sofa asking people of other country to risk everything they have for some vaguely defined ideology

The fact that Chinese patriotism can be natural and spontaneous. On reddit people seems to believe that Chinese people can not naturally love China, if someone does, it's because of propaganda/coercion/pretending/bot spamming. That is simply not true, Chinese people, just like the Americans, love their country and are proud of it.

Hahaha. It's definitely a thing. I would say it's awful lot of tech involved for distributing toilet paper. But there are people who just steal toilet papers so I guess it serves a purpose. It also shows facial recognition tech is not that expensive since it is used in such mundane circumstances. I personally would avoid it because it records your private information, never trust small tech companies handling your information.