This is healthy thinking. China might not be a place where there is any censorship, nor goons rounding up Uyghers, nor restrictions on travel, nor foreign-country-located police stations hounding ex-pats to return home under threat to their families.
It could all be made up and China could be a free-thinking, free-speech paradise where an insufficient number of western visitors have realized that everyone is free to talk about fair elections and Winnie-the-Pooh and a Green Party winning control of the Chinese Parliament.
That all sounds quite plausible. We should go and see.
Yes, you finally get it. It really isn't that there are only two options, but the Chinese media pushes there are only two options! You are either pro-china and completely in line with the CCP's agenda and ideology, or you are an anti-china western-media following racist. No nuance or middle ground, or even moderate positions, are possible. The lack of any middle ground in the debate is toxic, and that is mostly due to the Chinese government's hardline position on the matter.
It could all be made up and China could be a free-thinking, free-speech paradise where an insufficient number of western visitors have realized that everyone is free to talk about fair elections and Winnie-the-Pooh and a Green Party winning control of the Chinese Parliament.
That all sounds quite plausible. We should go and see.