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Chinese activist who mocked Xi Jinping flees to South Korea on jet ski, arrested (www.indiatoday.in)
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[–] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I just ran down a list of possibilities

You were caught lying about Chinese people not having freedom of travel. You're going to have to learn to accept that.

Why do you feel a need to knee-jerk glorify and defend a nation-state you’ve never lived in or associated with?

Because it's a target of the USA. Simples.

simply described a facet of life in China without hyperbole

A completely irrelevant facet of life that had nothing to do with what we were talking about.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

You have a bizarre definition of freedom of travel

Although I suppose on a grander scale, nobody truly has freedom of travel. But it's rare for citizens of a nation-state to need to be granted access to other cities and provinces... So on a relative scale, they don't. I'm not sure how you can say otherwise 🤔