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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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[+] -32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Why didn't he just take a plane? Just a stupid publicity stunt.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Because he doesn't want to be caught in a Chinese airport

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  • [+] -18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Caught doing what? Was he a fugitive? For what reason?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    heres the very beginning of the linked article that you're asking about: The jet-ski escapee is Chinese rights activist Kwon Pyong. He had posted pictures on social media mocking Chinese President Xi Jinping, and spent time in jail in China for subversion.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Yes I read that. So he did time and was released... go on.

    What were you trying to say?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Tankies just can't help tankie-ing, can they

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hurr

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Par for the course right here ^

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Third base over the bar hattrick.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You’d know all about being behind bars wouldn’t you tankie :)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sorry what? Do your parents know you're on the internet?

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Your only defense to everyone in this thread has been “what I can’t hear you”

    I’m the child though lmao. You’re a dog shit troll and tankie to boot, you aren’t going to be able to successfully insult or hurt my feelings dude sorry. Just who you are.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lmao, way to skip over the atrocities that occurred for the thousands of years prior to 1776 lmao

    But yeah people in power have been committing disgusting acts of violence since the dawn of time.

    Wanna talk about war crimes committed by countries? No problem dude. Let’s start with the Middle East suicide bombings, 9/11 then we can move on to Chinese concentration camps for Uyghurs. Russias current war crimes etc etc etc.

    Countries aren’t the problem it’s the people in power across the globe.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You really didn’t think this one through huh

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Maybe you can explain it to me? Nobody else can.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Citizen of dictatorship country criticizes govt with a fucking t-shirt

    Is aggressively pursued for beating and jail time

    Flees to other country, gets caught anyways by said dictatorship.

    Maybe if you weren’t a brain dead tankie troll you’d understand better buddy :)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    He wasn't wanted. He was a free citizen leading a normal life after he was in prison for inciting violence against the government for spreading messages that Xi is equivalent to Hitler and participating in Tienanmen revisionism to glorify that time when students violently attempted to create a counter-revolution and killed 200 soldiers while the US cheered them on hoping for another color revolution.

    So after that he decides to pull a publicity stunt that he absolutely didn't need to do and what he chose to do was flee to South Korea, a US military vassal state that literally just asked the US to station tactical nukes on it.

    This guy is as right-wing reactionary as they come.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Chinese people don't have freedom to travel...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lol what. Jesus man, who told you that?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I lived there and experienced it firsthand. All residents of China must apply to travel within China. These days it's mostly automated and quick for convenience, but you will be monitored at various checkpoints in the system.

    For the most obvious example, you must register with local police within 24 hours of arrival in your destination, a service hotels usually provide free. This means that you must present your travel documents to check in to all hotels. This applies to all people, not only foreign individuals. Moreover, all lodgings are not legally registered to host foreign guests. So there are many hotels that non-Chinese people cannot even stay in.

    I hope this helps relieve your incredulity

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Nothing you said backs up your original claim. And more importantly, is completely irrelevant.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Lol you lemmygrad people hate hearing from people who have actually lived and worked in China.

    If he tried to buy an airplane ticket it's possible he would have been denied. Riding a jetski across open ocean is pretty dangerous and not preferable. Also, there's no guarantee that you will be allowed entry to your destination. Risky move all around. Especially because the Korean island of Jeju has visa-free travel for Chinese passport holders. So maybe it was a stunt but... Risky move.

    Oh speaking of passports, China stopped issuing new passports in recent years. I am not sure if they started back, but it was definitely an issue during the Shanghai COVID lockdown, as rich Chinese people were trying to leave and lay low elsewhere. It's possible that the guy's passport expired and he had no way of traveling by air.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Lol you lemmygrad people hate hearing from people who have actually lived and worked in China.

    No it's very interesting actually, when it's relevant. You claimed that Chinese people didn't have freedom of movement, then went rambling on about how Chinese people do have freedom of movement.

    If he tried to buy an airplane ticket it’s possible he would have been denied.

    You just pulled that out of your ass though, didn't you?

    Riding a jetski across open ocean is pretty dangerous and not preferable.

    But it gets you in the news. It was a stupid gimmick and you know it.

    So maybe it was a stunt but… Risky move.

    So we're in complete agreement.

    China stopped issuing new passports in recent years.

    Jesus christ man. Use your brain.

    It’s possible that the guy’s passport expired

    Pathetic.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean, it's obvious that you have no idea WTF daily life is like in China. I just ran down a list of possibilities and explained how travel works in China and you just posture like a bratty toddler.

    Why do you feel a need to knee-jerk glorify and defend a nation-state you've never lived in or associated with? I didn't even badmouth the place, simply described a facet of life in China without hyperbole

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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 🤔

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