And, the moral of this story is? Stay Away from China.

Funny how this works.
Out here in Australia, the poorer Chinese can be witnessed picking up curb-side council cleanup rubbish, in the latest model Mercedes SUV's.
Dreadful life they lead....NOT.

Dan

If one believes in reincarnation and I do. Then one would see the reincarnation of mass murdering, psychotic Stalin in Xi Jinping?

Not only does he act like that psychotic paranoid power-hungry maniac, but is just as non-empathetic as that mass-murdering monster with as little regard for human life!?

And he has a good mate in Stalin devotee, Putin!? Who self evidently sees this mass-murdering monster/commie dictator, as some kind of national hero!?

Anybody who chooses a Chinese wife and then chooses to live in China under a dictator, needs their head read!

Why are you and your wife still there? Have you completely lost your sanity? Get the hell out while you still can! No amount of wealth or prosperity is worth what it could ultimately cost!
Alan B.

I'm glad you brought this to my attention Brian;
Because now I'm going to tear some strips off you as well.

- If you were looking for sympathy, then I'm sorry to inform you that you're going to receive the exact opposite.

You want to know what another term for 'foreigner' is?
'Privileged Guest'.

Unless you're a Chinese national, you're a privileged guest in China.

As a 'privileged guest' you're entitled to 'shut your damn mouth' and 'accept whatever hospitality your hosts deem fit';
If this option is not suitable to you, then as a 'privileged guest' you have a second option.
That option is 'get on the next boat or plane out and go back to where you came from';
And - 'don't let the door hit you in the arse on the way out'.

Ok now think seriously...
What do you think I care about more:
Your rights in China, or people from China in Australia;
Doing the same shuff you're doing, whinging about how things are.

To top it off, you're living there and posting things on the internet critical of their government / country, you even admitted to the numerous reasons why they may harbour distrust or resentment towards a foreigner;

And yet you still whinge?
If you don't like it leave, but don't dare complain about it.
- That's a matter for Chinese nationals themselves and their government.

I agree with ttbn.

Next time yor return to Australia with your wife.

Both don't ever return to China.

Also noting, even if your ethnic Chinese wife has Australian citizenship, China has a habit of locking up ethnic Chinese carrying any type of passport.

Oh! And Hong Kong is also descending into darkness. See http://gentleseas.blogspot.com/2019/08/pla-threatens-tiananmen-squareagainst.html

Pete

Well there is a Chinese attitude called Tianxia.
China, the Central Kingdom believes that only China is a sovereign country,
all other peripheral countries are vassal states.
These other states must pay tribute.
This principle is known as "tianxia".
President Zi Jingping recently made the point that the United States is
NOT a sovereign country.
They do not recognise the 1648 Westphalian Treaty which defined what a
sovereign country means,borders government etc.

Hence the Sth China Sea attitude to others.

Thank you, gentlemen for your comments. One last whinge:I report things that my Chinese citizen wife and other courageous Chinese citizens cannot report in their own country. They are grateful for my efforts to publicise abroad what they can never hope to publicise at home. You know the reasons why. Think Liu Xaiobo, Ai Weiwei, and the hundreds of courageous dissidents who are incarcerated. Don't give up on China. I repeat: there are many courageous people here who deserve support rather than abandonment. I've been here since 2003. I know China, and I know what I am doing. Cheers, fellers.

Brian, there are none so blind as those who will not see!

You think one solitary voice in the wilderness would or did stop Stalin? And given the results this historical megalomaniac was responsible for, what chance do you believe you and your Chinese wife have?

Certainly, nothing like the chance the entire population of Tibet had nor those on a very disturbed Hong Kong island!

Would that Xi Jiping was a benign dictator that loved his people and country more than he loves absolute power!

And we all know, that if power corrupts then absolute power absolutely corrupts.

For the last time, Get the hell out of there. You cannot help if you find yourself or your wife in a "reeducation" camp!

As for all the good people they need to be those at the forefront of a popular peoples revolt. and needs to be entirely internal and from the Chinese people. And If you know as much as you claim, about China and her peoples and their position and sentiment?

You would already be homeward bound!
Alan B.

"reeducation" camp!
Alan B,
These camps seem to do their job here in keeping the dumbing-down process going smoothly !

Dear Brian,

So what do you suggest?

We all know already how evil the Chinese regime is, no secrets about it, so how could more publicity help? Why would the dictators care about it? Isn't it best to just try to rescue as many as we can by getting them out of there?

Isn't it best to just try to rescue as many as we can by getting them out of there?
Yuyutsu,
Migrating a problem won't solve it ! Advising them to stand up & take action for themselves is a much more viable option.
Creating more refugees creates yet a bigger dilemma ! Get refugees to return & sort out their problems is the only way !

Wrong individual

You suggesting others, including an AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN in China, should "stand up & take action for themselves" is fine for you safely in Australia.

Chinese Leader for Life Xi Jinping is steadily becoming more Stalinist-Maoist. His predecessors massacred those who Stood Up And Took Action in Tiananmen Square, 1989 by

LITERALLY CRUSHING THE PROTESTORS WITH TANKS THEN BACKING THE TANKS OVER THEM TO CREATE AN UNRECOGNISABLE BLOODY MUSH.

Check out the Tiananmen Massacre here http://youtu.be/AGJoaHr2QdM?t=45s to see what happens to Chinese who "stand up & take action for themselves". And especially see http://youtu.be/AGJoaHr2QdM?t=2m50s

And it can happen again the way Xi and his personal tool, the Chinese Communist Party, are squeezing any hope of democracy or effective protest.

Dear Individual,

«Advising them to stand up & take action for themselves is a much more viable option.»

Do they not know it already?

I have not much to add following Plantagenet's contribution.

an AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN in China,
plantagenet,
Are you saying there are Australians in China who didn't criticise the Govt & can't leave ?

Thanks Yuyutsu

Regards

Pete

My guess is that China is the one who will knock Islam on the head big time, Inshallah !

the poorer Chinese can be witnessed picking up curb-side council cleanup rubbish, in the latest model Mercedes SUV's.
diver dan,
Your point ?? I see Council executives & Govt bureaucrats & many public servants on huge salaries & they do nothing ! Again, what is your point ?

Mr. Hennessy does not seem to know that the gravitation law of Newton does not apply in China. The apple does not fall off from a tree; it flies up from the ground to the tree. Because "One determining influence on East Asian civilization has been its relative isolation from the other great civilizations of mankind (which grew in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and India), (Edwim O. Reischaur, East Asia: Tradition and Transformation, co-authored by J. K. Fairbank and A. M. Craig).

C. P. Fitzgerald, who taught at Australian National University, said (China: A Short Cultural History), "In the long course of Chinese history there have only been two revolutions which have radically altered the political and social structure. The first was the great revolution of 221 B.C., by which the feudal system of ancient China was utterly destroyed and a centralised monarchy formed in its stead."
Since then Chinese society has been put together only by imperial, gigantically oppressive dynasties and nothing else can piece society together. Autocratic, though nominally benign, emperors, mandarins, and the masses too dreaded nothing so much as social chaos and disintegration. (I am not sure but if I remember correctly Fitzgerald said somewhere in "China" that the Chinese love material comforts and pleasures and care least for freedom of speech.)

"...the reality of empire was that of a hard core, or wei, surrounded by a soft pulp of de, virture. Althoug court records praise the Confucian wisdom of emperors, they in fact behaved like Legalists, who suggested that well-ordered society depended on clear rules and punishment for violators rather than benevolence (June Teufel Dreyer, YaleGlobal Online, China's Tianxia, Oct. 30, 2014.)"

well-ordered society depended on clear rules and punishment for violators rather than benevolence
Michi,
I'd be all for it if the sentence read 'well-ordered society depended on clear rules and punishment for violators rather than benevolent punishment".
Discipline is the key to everything entailing success. Dope heads & drunkards & greedy morons are not desirable members of society !

Thanks Michi

For your profound comment about China always having a centralised, oppressively authoritarian leadership [to maintain control of China's vast territory and many peoples].

The same could also be said of Russia under the Tsars, Communist Red "Tsars" and now Leader for Life, Putin.

Michi when I last checked you were over 90 years old, in Japan. So I'm glad you are still writing.

Regards

Pete

Individual and Plantagenet, thank you for your comments.

I have never been good at arithmetic but I guess I am not so old as 90.
I cannot resist the temptation to tell you the jokes that I heard a week ago. I went to the funeral with my wife of a man who introduced her to me. He was 86 years old. His family always loved jokes. His son said, "My father boasted he would live to be 150 but he fell about half of the way." The wife said, "My husband had been in good health. I am very proud he began to see doctors of all sorts only in his old age, but fortunately he had never been to an obstetrician and a pediatrician.