woster

I talked about the concentration camps with overseas Chinese students in the USA. They claim that it is a Western conspiracy to destroy China's international reputation. They also showed me videos on Chinese social media showing various terrorist attacks that have occurred in Xinjiang in the past decades. Apparently, these videos are flooding Chinese social media in response to criticism of the Uighur concentration camps. Unfortunately, most Chinese are heavily influenced by what they see in their propagandistic Chinese social media and news. What would you say to the average Han Chinese person who thinks that these camps are not that bad and are reasonable responses to terrorism?

While all media has bias, I think you are overestimating the Chinese people. Most cannot read any other language except Chinese. When you add up linguistic barriers, cultural differences, propagandistic education, and the Great Firewall, Western news has almost no penetration into China. Literally everything, even something like a Marvel movie, is filtered by Chinese government controllers.

They are advocating for better tests specifically because the faulty tests have caused tens of thousands of dismissals in cases. The faulty testing process and not their reporting is why those cases were dismissed.

It's an interesting perspective that you offer. On the other hand, I think you're being unrealistic about your numbers. If there's a "vast majority" that's uneducated, then how is there also a "sizeable majority" that sees the world from a nuanced perspective. I don't know your family background, but once you get out of the Tier 1 and 2 cities, there's not a lot of counter-culture. Most of the new rich middle class are obsessed with money within the system, not fighting the system