If you haven’t watched the documentary I linked to you might want to give it a try. The coverup by the government, arrest of whistleblowers and brutality towards their own people makes you wonder why we do any business with them at all.
that doc is PG compared to some of the clips that got out. The young man in the white mask with the hand-held microphone towards the beginning of the doc is Chen Quishi- he’s been missing over 6 weeks now, along with Fang Bin.
Neon lights can’t hide that China is very much a Mao-ist society, especially on the ‘community leader’ angry-uncle level. An example:
““It’s our responsibility to find everyone and enforce safety... No one should be afraid to be an informant,” said Chen Gang, a retired resident in central Dongcheng district, who is a designated community leader in his neighborhood. “
(An informant would get a bounty equivalent to a week’s salary - which of course was shared unequally with the community leader.) The CCP intentionally lets some videos leak - they are, literally, bragging about their ability to intimidate and humiliate their working class into complete submission of thought to the power of The State and the hierarchy of The Party. The CCP is possibly the most genocidal society this planet has ever seen. But because China has been busy signing Belt and Road ‘development’ agreements, many countries are afraid to call China out and turn as blind an eye to them as they do to Iran.