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I got a university in a really red part of the country, we have four different gun clubs for different kinds of guns and so on. Anyways we get a horde of both japanese and Chinese exchange/foreign students every year for some reason, a large amount. The japs are almost ALL girls for some reason and the chinks are almost ALL boys. The japanese girls are lovely, a net positive on the school for sure, I’m friends with a bunch. The Chinese boys are also quite enjoyable to be around but for very different reasons. They all come from very wealthy Chinese families (as opposed to the japs who all seem about middle class) but all of them seem to have ZERO respect or love for the CCP and seem dead set on making a bunch of money and then moving to America or Singapore or even Taiwan in one case. I’ve asked a few of them about life in China and it seems like from their perspective, America isn’t even that noticeably freer, because at their level of wealth, laws of any kind only really apply if you’re pissing off the government or making a scene. One guys entire family simply uses VPNs to get around the great firewall so he’s never cared about it, they just spend a bit extra to import whatever foreign stuff they want, everything’s dandy. This seems to openly disgust a lot of the guys I talked to, who even though they’re getting a nice slice of the pie, want to live somewhere where it’s a lot less expensive to live the same way and you don’t need to worry about “acting up” and getting disappeared. Minimal relevance and I’m not really drawing many conclusions here, just thought it was interesting that America isn’t that alien of a culture to these guys because the super strict laws we hear about don’t apply to them when they’re in China. I know the “China has rule of law” guy was joking but it’s genuinely very interesting to me how many countries don’t have rule of law even today.
