[lozenge]

Chinese people know that protesting is illegal and that their government is oppressive. It largely doesn't matter to them because they don't want to protest.

How they are investing their life savings is clearly the more important thing they should know about.

[dmortin]

There are many protests every day in China, so people do want to protest, but many people don't, because they are afraid of repercussions.

If peaceful protests were allowed then much more people would go to the streets to protest.