[jdietrich]

>If Chinese citizens are told by their government that covid is no longer a risk to the general population and that western media outlets are fear mongering to damage China, they will believe it regardless of the truth. The CCP is the truth in China.

Nonsense. Chinese people aren't an unthinking monolith. Like anywhere else, some people believe whatever the government tells them, some people believe any old nonsense on social media and some are savvy and sceptical.

The only thing more effective than Chinese censorship of the internet is the efforts of Chinese citizens to satirise and subvert it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/world/asia/12beast.html

[LegitShady]

Ya their satirizing is so effective you have to go back 10 years for an article about it but their social credit system would have downgraded you for reading that article.

I think the level of naivete on your part shows someone who doesn't worry about getting called for tea.