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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Living in China, by Walt King - The Unz Review

 

When you hear the name of the country “China”, what is your immediate reaction?

It’s an authoritarian, aggressive state that oppresses its citizens, perhaps.

If so, you are responding with a knee-jerk, ill-informed reaction, not really your fault, it’s the diet you have been fed, and the purpose of this article is first to try to persuade you to think otherwise, and then to describe what life is really like, from someone who actually lives there, experiencing it on a daily basis.

Well, where to begin?

Let’s start then with that (1) undemocratic state which (2) oppresses its citizens with its “social credit scores”, and is (3) an aggressive threat on the world stage........