I've come across posts like this many, many times – praising China's safety while denouncing democracies that spend too much time debating "freedoms."
I get it. I don't want to live somewhere I have to watch my surroundings constantly.
But safety isn't the price you pay for freedom. Taiwan, Japan, and Korea are among the safest places. You can walk the streets at 2 a.m without a second thought, and none of them required a surveillance state to get there. Culture, state capacity, and enforcement all shape this, no single model owns it.
China's version comes down to a tyrannical policing and surveillance apparatus that makes the personal cost of committing even petty crime extraordinarily high. But that same apparatus is also the one that disappears the lawyer, the journalist, the dissident.
Europe may have a problem, but China is not the answer to it. Hinting that the problem is having too much “freedom debate” is such a bad take.
You can literally show these tankies videos and pictures of what happened in Tiananmen Square and they would still spout all the CCP propaganda about it.
Alysa Liu’s gold medal-winning skating captured the hearts of the world at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Behind the skating lies an amazing backstory: Alysa’s father, Arthur Liu, fled China at the age of 25 in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. Arthur was at the Tiananmen Square protests and will join the Select Committee for a bipartisan press conference TOMORROW June 4 at 8:00AM at the House Triangle.
Three Henan Blue Sky Rescue teams rushed to save lives in flood-ravaged Hunan — and were officially reprimanded for it.
Their ‘crime’? Going without government approval. Official verdict: ‘未经审批,私自赈灾’ causing ‘extremely severe negative social impact’.”
In mid-May 2026, torrential rains devastated Shimen County, Changde, Hunan — killing several, leaving others missing, and displacing tens of thousands.
While people were drowning, 20+ volunteers from Yichuan, Yiyang, and Songxian counties drove through the night to help. Instead of thanks, they got ordered to withdraw and issued internal warnings.
In ancient China, privately organizing disaster relief without imperial approval was often seen as treason (谋反) — a direct challenge to the ruler’s authority and the Mandate of Heaven.
From imperial treason to modern bureaucratic scandal: How has the view of civilian heroism changed in China?
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@jcmittelstaedt The concept of a "Total War" approach should have been understood and acknowledged by CCP leadership even during Jiang's era, based on my recollection. It is widely believed that 总体战 is part of US grand strategy that the CCP educates its people to be aware of.