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        He was arrested for crossing the border illegally. None of these articles say he was wanted for anything prior to this.

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          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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            Yeah there’s no way that guy was allowed to buy train tickets, let alone airplane tickets. He probably had no passport

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

            What were you trying to say?

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              These sinophobes are just incapable of thinking at this point. It’s fucking ridiculous

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                One of them just told me that:

                Chinese people don’t have freedom to travel…

                smh, the poor simple bastards have no minds of their own.

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          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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            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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              That’s an awful long winded way of saying he was jailed for wrongthink.

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

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              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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                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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                  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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                    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.