“Our pain is real. It’s not for a public forum, and definitely should not be sensationalized with flashy front-page pictures”
Re Martin Gruen’s inbox letter touting the high safety standards in China, he would be well-advised to remember that in the 1930s many Italians supported Benito Mussolini because during his rule “the trains ran on time.”
The rulers of Fascist and Communist countries have no trouble running the trains on time. Xi is no different.
No matter how often you visit China or how safe your daughter is walking around at midnight, if you never lived under communist rule you have no idea of the true cost of being “the safest country.”
In fact, you don’t have to live there to find out the true cost of totalitarian rule. Just say the wrong thing in public during your next trip to China and you will find yourself arrested as a Western spy.
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