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I agree. Yet I didn't see for decades China desire to propagate its culture to the whole world and force it with force and bombs like US did for 50 years with Netflix and co. Of course China played his part with the economy dominance. Now if you understand that US (not to say the WHO) way to create colored revolutions and opposition to any country that wants to be free of Netflix (Cf Syria, Lybia and Irak and co) is mainly done by creating opposition (throught spys and TV), then you should also maybe try to controle your own people in order to avoid enemies introduction to your politics ? Of course many things are bad in China, actually I do understand the social credit more than the Covid stuff (even though I don't pray for a world like that).
In general they had less measures than the West, but in Xi'an recently they had serious trouble because of covid restrictions (personal report). However, it has to be taken in account that China has very few covid cases, like almost none, probably because they test differently. But when they detect a few cases somewhere, they go crazy.
Interestingly it is extremely difficult to find ripe and local Peat-recommended fruits in Japan most of the year. I noticed a similar worship of rules and perceived authority in many Norwegian and Swdish people. Confucianism is an integral part of Chinese imperialism, completely miserable. The social credit system is a contemporary expression of this ancient, thoroughly hierarchical and authoritarian philosophy. My guess is Chinese people would tend to be less obedient to authority than the Japanese, but the Chinese prefer to disobey in ways less confrontational than say Americans.
Why do you think they respond like this? They likely know the covid hysteria is nonsense.
Saving face is a number one priority in Asia - forgot to add that
I talked briefly with the Chinese person from Xi'an who told me about the measures and tried to get the conversation going about the absurdity of the measures (described a bit what was happening here, how the virus was not eradicated with crazy restrictions and how things did not worsen when they removed the measures recently). The person, who seems intelligent otherwise, responded that the whole thing is indeed strange, even absurd, but then added: "I hope we eradicate the virus completely soon!" I was surprised that an intelligent person can still believe in possibility of eradicating the virus, even though no country succeeded despite insanely strict measures.
They think they created a US bioweapon their own lab?
That's true in Japan. I think in China less so. Koreans tend to be upfront. I guess diet has a big influence on these tendencies.
That kind of talk about ending the "pandemic" has become a twisted sort of pleasantry. I also spent some time talking to friends about the absurdity of this situation, and many of them claim to agree, but when the propaganda is ramped up, they immediately revert to their fearful states. They seem to think the media merely report the existing situation regarding covid, rather than try to manipulate the perception of it, and that people in positions of power are merely reacting to covid as a natural disaster they have no influence over. It's difficult to get them to understand that they got the causality confused because this necessitates them to question how they relate to establishment propaganda, and to question the basic assumptions of the society they live in.
Not Chinese.
