There’s only a little kidnapping by the state. Don’t make a fuss, just get on the bus.
China’s ambassador in Ottawa says more Canadians should visit the People’s Republic, promising the “vast majority” shouldn’t worry about being kidnapped by police. “China is not a police state,” said Ambassador Cong Peiwu: “It’s nothing like that. If you walk on the Chinese streets, it’s quite safe.”
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But don’t you worry the worst that can happen is that you’ll wind up in a Chinese musical.
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“only a little kidnapping by the state”
like those “mostly peaceful” riots.
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Unless you’re a Uigher? Now, Canada like China, is taking away people’s freedom for the crime of … nothing. Flying home. He admires their basic dictatorship, after all.
By the way, according to the CBSA, most Canadians abroad are changing their flights to the nearest US city and driving home. There are no such restrictions at border crossings. Ridiculous rules are the order of the day.
” “China is not a police state,” said Ambassador Cong Peiwu”
The residents of Hong Kong disagree.
China is a totalitarian communist dictatorship. Just ask the two Michaels.
If you took their national police force (excluding local grunts) and dropped it into SK, it would triple the population.
There are surveillance cameras EVERYWHERE. Some street intersections have more cameras than entire Canadian municipalities.
There are cartoon and cartoonish signs all over the place admonishing citizens to BEHAVE.
They basically have lèse majesté in all but name.
There are no such things as “constitutional rights” for citizens, let alone tourists. You can be detained at any time for anything with no right of trial.
But hey, it’s not a police state. C’mon, man!
Well its nice to hear that the commies will only kidnap a minority of visitors.
I think you would have to be “absolutely nuts” to visit China, Hong Kong, Viet Nam or even Singapore, Cambodia or Thailand.
I love history, and one truism is that “history always repeats itself”. Events are “hotting up” in Asia and that part of the world and sadly, there are no guarantees (if the cases of the 2 Michaels is anything to go on) that the Canadian government will protect you should you be arrested.
I have a hard time drumming up any sympathy for anyone that voluntarily travels to a communist dictatorship country without at least considering the possibility that they will be disappeared or used as a bargaining chip. Best wishes to them.
Hopefully they will learn that Canada is the only country where you can safely go about your business without the government or state police detaining you or destroying your life. Haha…jk. Canada isn’t much different than China.
Thailand is fine, Vietnam, Cambodia or Singapore, less so for various reasons, Chicoms are an enemy and collaboration with enemy is treason.
Visit China the way your grandfather visited Germany in the ’40s.
My father did not visit Germany in the 1940s. He flew over it as an RCAF sergeant air gunner in bomber command. They sprinkled presents in their wake.
Per ardua ad astra, Dad. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.
Did he mention that most humans can function with only one kidney?
And after your surgery … FREE acupuncture !
At least there is no waiting list. lol.
The next westerner to visit Red China should be the spacesuit-clad American soldier who plants Old Glory on the highly radioactive ruins of Beijing. There’s nothing there anybody with any business outside a lunatic asylum ought to want.
I would actually feel safer in any number of post-Soviet central Asian dictatorships, where the locals don’t actually hate me and want me dead.
“…where the locals don’t actually hate me and want me dead.”
That’s because they don’t know you.
Why would I want to go to a sh–hole?
Then there is that kidnapping thing.
The vast majority?
So there are some they can’t wait to get them to set foot on Chinese soil?
Could they be honest enough to publish a list of the small minority that would be incarcerated once on communist soil.
Chinah. Great place. Watched a documentary a couple of weeks ago on the Three Gorges Dam construction. Moonscaped cities, soon to be flooded at the time, with the inhabitants dismantling the place, brick by brick, rolling up the copper wires and salvaging the sewer pipes and roofing tiles. No heavy machinery to pull down the bigger chunks, just 100 people and wire cables. They lived in their own ruins to take it down. Didn’t see any rainbow hair or bolts in their noses, though. Catch fish in the river to eat, before the river ate their “homes”..
Saw a side trip to the Great Wall. Windrows of trash and a people with no sense of history. The CCP are masters of an insect race. Hong Kong is is being eradicated for wrong think today.
Love the Zappa reference!
Every useful idiot should go.
But let’s keep the traffic one way.