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Xi's citizens can at least afford rent. As far as overbearing governments go, I'd certainly prefer the PRC to the USA.
I like not living in not nearly as oppressive of a surveillance state personally
Like if a Chinese citizen typed that on the legal state ran social media police would knock on their door
Would they? Do you know that, or are you guessing based on sentiment floating around online?
Yeah, they do
https://www.axios.com/2021/01/30/china-social-media-criticism-arrest
You're allowed to go learn about things instead of blocking out the things you don't like hearing.
If you dissent in China you are intimidated into shutting up.
If you don't stop eventually you have to flee the country or you and your family dissappear.
This is the government that made people invent the term "dissapearing"
50 people in three years reminds me of the people arrested in the UK "for exercising their free speech" who were actually trying to start race riots. I'll see if I can find any data on what they were actually saying, but ~17 people a year out of 1.4 billion doesn't seem like a significant percentage of dissenters. If they were really cracking down on all dissent, I'd expect hundreds of thousands of arrests, not 50.