Writing a detailed post is too costly and risky for me right now. One of my grandparents was confined in a makeshift prison for ten years during the Cultural Revolution and died shortly after, for something that would normally be considered totally innocent that he did years earlier. None of them saw that coming, so I’m going to play it on the safe side and try to avoid saying things that could be used to “cancel” me or worse. But there are plenty of articles on the Internet you can find by doing some searches. If none of them convinces you how serious the problem is, PM me and I’ll send you some links.
My grandparents on both sides of my family seriously considered leaving China (to the point of making concrete preparations), but didn’t because things didn’t seem that bad, until it was finally too late.
I expect I have much more flexibility than your family did – I have no dependents, I have no property / few belongings to tie me down, and I expect flight travel is much more readily available to me in the present-day. I also expect to notice it faster than the supermajority of people (not disanalogous to how I was prepped for Covid like a month before everyone else).
Writing a detailed post is too costly and risky for me right now. One of my grandparents was confined in a makeshift prison for ten years during the Cultural Revolution and died shortly after, for something that would normally be considered totally innocent that he did years earlier. None of them saw that coming, so I’m going to play it on the safe side and try to avoid saying things that could be used to “cancel” me or worse. But there are plenty of articles on the Internet you can find by doing some searches. If none of them convinces you how serious the problem is, PM me and I’ll send you some links.
I do expect to be able to vacate a given country in a timely manner if it seems to be falling into a cultural Revolution.
My grandparents on both sides of my family seriously considered leaving China (to the point of making concrete preparations), but didn’t because things didn’t seem that bad, until it was finally too late.
That’s pretty scary.
I expect I have much more flexibility than your family did – I have no dependents, I have no property / few belongings to tie me down, and I expect flight travel is much more readily available to me in the present-day. I also expect to notice it faster than the supermajority of people (not disanalogous to how I was prepped for Covid like a month before everyone else).