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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
Yes, both sides. Contrary to popular belief, not every Chinese citizen in China is miserable. The way western media portrays China, you'd think living conditions there were like North Korea. At the end of the day, you're not going to change how China governs, it's a communist country. That's how they govern. And for the most part, they've taken a pretty hands off approach to Hong Kong, just like how they've done with Macau, with the expectation of full integration into China by 2047. It's a deadend road if protesters are expecting some sort of Hong Kong independence from China. You're just going to rock the 1 party 2 system boat, and China's just going to take a harder stance if this continues.
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I was in China last year for a kung fu tournament and I was talking to a couple of Americans there. They hadn't been there before, but they expressed that same sentiment. Basically, the media seems to give the impression that its bleak and dreary and everyone is terrified of what the government can do. I don't doubt that there is some of that, to be clear. But the reality feels quite different. It doesn't seem like a communist society, at least not in the way that I would expect. There is a lot of commerce and it seems similar to what we have here. I'm sure there are differences and I'm sure I haven't seen everything to know fully about the human rights abuses and things like that, but those were just my impressions.