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In reply to the discussion: I'm Begging You, PLEASE Don't Travel to China Now [View all]Dorian Gray
(13,558 posts)18. I'm not familiar with CU
but I am with The Epoch Times and their ties to Falun Gong (AND SHEN YUN, the dance company!). Both The Epoch Times and Shen Yun are propaganda arms of Falun Gong, and they've decided to ally themselves with some nefarious and anti-democratic agents in the US. So... if the video above is in any way related to them... it's not trustworthy.
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They can retrench all they want. There is no way in hell I will ever live there again. Winnie the Flu destroyed the
AZLD4Candidate
Oct 2023
#11
What do you want to know about living in China from someone who lived under that bastard Xi Jinping?
AZLD4Candidate
Oct 2023
#8
Why? It's not worth it. They hate you because you're a foreigner and will treat you as such, especially
AZLD4Candidate
Oct 2023
#13
not to be insulting, but that was spoken by someone who has never lived there
AZLD4Candidate
Oct 2023
#24
Someone whom many people here on DU know has lived and worked there for years and loves it
obamanut2012
Oct 2023
#30
It would be like going to Nazi Germany in 1937 if you went to China now. I just got out.
AZLD4Candidate
Oct 2023
#10
He uses all sources, not just Epoch Times. However, the way the CCP brutalizes the Fulang Gong, I can
AZLD4Candidate
Oct 2023
#16
CU was originally funded by them. Though they broke away to be independently funded in recent years, FWIW.
Lancero
Oct 2023
#21
+1, YT recs will start pulling winger channels if you look at CU one too many times
uponit7771
Oct 2023
#20
Sounds like its mostly interfernce with businesses in China and their owners/employees
SYFROYH
Oct 2023
#25
Only living in China for 12 years, being married to a Chinese citizen, and observing it with my own eyes
AZLD4Candidate
Oct 2023
#46
I have no choice as a tech worker but to travel to Shenzhen every couple months.
MenloParque
Oct 2023
#41
As did I when I worked there. . .but when you start learning the language or even offer a mild criticism of China
AZLD4Candidate
Oct 2023
#50
I don't plan to, but also don't want to watch a video. Can you simply state what this is in reference to?
themaguffin
Oct 2023
#49
My observations of people wearing hitler shirts, selling hitler cars, my wife being called a race traitor
AZLD4Candidate
Oct 2023
#51