To members who don't read Chinese：
If you are interested in exploring more common Chinese people's view on various topics，I strongly recommend you follow the way I did when I try to study specific countries. Which is surf native language forum with the help of translation software，DO NOT rely on informations from english version forum unless the the majority of that country's population are fluent in english.
This is especially true for countries like China Russia Japan Korea etc. If you do this，I promise you that you will find a whole different world that is vastly different from the english version XX country's forum，SDF included. Make no mistake，english version forum DO NOT represent the majority common folks opinion，native language forum is the real deal. For China，even domestic forum is under strict censorship and tons of topic is forbidden to discuss，you'd still get much more authentic experiences than the "international version China forum" like SDF.
I know it's labourious to navigate in non-english forums with translation software，but if you really want to dig deep into regular local people's mind，it's absolutely worth of the time.
BTW, I surf Russian native forum recently，and I can tell you people's opinion over there is totally different from the english language Russia Defence Forum.
So to get to the real authentic Chinese experience, you should not listen to Chinese people talking to you but be a creepy foreigner trying to translate foreign blogs, right? LOL And if you don't like what you're seeing on a blog, keep looking until you find dissident blogs!
Not really. In general, the population that are going onto forums and threads is a population with something they care a lot about. In this case, the majority of the domestic audience has never been abroad. In thier world, it's just them and the government. Take this population and then take the subgroup of people who go online instead of spending all thier time in their busy lives and you'll get a group of people complaining about the government especially if you look for it. If 90% of the people are fine and go about their lives but 10% of people have grievances, you'll see a forum with the majority of those 10%ers and you'll mistakenly take that to be the majority.
Those who go abroad usually become much more nationalistic because now their world is not just them and the Chinese government but it becomes them, the Chinese side and the hostile foreign side. They can actually see that now, so they are more educated and more patriotic.
There is no substitute for the authentic Chinese experience to being Chinese and having all your friends be Chinese, no matter how hard a foreigner or "China expert" digs.
Do you remember Fang Fang（方方）？
This lady can be said to be the perfect proof of the corruption of the propaganda department.
Her publication of those 2020 diaries with overblown descriptions of the disaster in Wuhan received no correction, and she was not punished as a person who receives a salary from the government.
Such a clown is still a senior leader of the Writers' Association. You can imagine how bad the propaganda department will be.
I couldn't understand. Maybe it's true, as others have said, that putting the opposition in less important positions limits their influence.
Or maybe those writers who have entered the system are already such Occidentalist?
Do you think such people are also loyal?
No, and I know that people like you are not as well. Your complaint now stems to what? That they didn't punish her harshly enough for what she wrote on Wuhan? Nobody here understands your drivel, one post saying there is not enough freedom and now saying that there is too much freedom and not enough punishment. This is perfect proof of your incoherence.
If you want to judge if someone is a patriot to China, simply ask this: Would the US government or the Chinese government support his/her actions?
