Things are bad when I consider being kidnapped by the Chinese government as less likely than the US.
I would much rather go to China than the USA right now.
China wouldn’t search my phone at the border and China wouldnt arrest me for opinionated social posts I had previously made.
This backwards world we live in.
I think they might also and also bug your phone. It’s just that the US has become so bad they’re converging to what dictatorships have been doing for ages already
Every cell phone in the US is a “bug” at the behest of our corporate advertisers and data brokers.
Fully agree, can still get worse than the default setting and I don’t care if the US or China installs Pegasus on your phone we shouldn’t pretend any government can be trusted
China just filling in all the gaps and holes left by the US.
Now if only their government didn’t behave like the party in 1984
The dystopian surveillance and automated law enforcement system is the only thing that makes me hesitant to move.
Exactly why I would never move to the US either.
So they’re really gonna write up that whole article and NOT include the actual list, huh? Embarrassing.
For countries not on the list, a transit policy allows eligible citizens to enter for 10 days if they depart for a different country they arrived from.
Cool cool cool… Why?
More flexibility on flight stopovers in China. If you are going somewhere else, China would probably like for you to spend some of your money in a Chinese city. I’m guessing 10 days is the duration because flights occasionally get canceled or delayed. A lot more people would need to apply to extend their visas on stopovers if it was only like 3 days.
Edit: spelling
I can kinda understand that but I’ve taken week-long overseas vacations so giving border control extra work verifying a visitor isn’t returning home “too fast” seems counter-productive
They give up to 10 days visa free from some countries you otherwise need a visa to enter in the first place. In guessing that if you can’t show proof you are continuing to somewhere else - like a connecting flight - you aren’t getting in at all.
