Worth Reading - Chinese Journalist Warns of Chinas' "Public Face" Deception

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14935055/Cheng-Lei-China-Australia-botox-facade.html

Former detainee Cheng Lei has warned the Albanese government
to look deeper than China's public façade as she describes
distressing surveillance that happens daily in Australia.

Ms Cheng was imprisoned for more than three years in China,
with the first six months in solitary confinement where she
was forced to sit still for 13 hours per day  and write
'self–bashing essays'.

After almost two years free and now based in Melbourne, she
has warned the Albanese government against drinking the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 'Kool-Aid'.

'There is China's public face, and it's a great face, and
it's getting better all the time, with a lot of Botox,'
the mother-of-two said.

'But the surface is not how it is at the core and it spends
trillions of dollars – its entire stability maintenance
budget – to keep up that façade.

'We are just conveniently forgetting China is a state that
prioritises the CCP's rule above all else, and individuals
don't matter in that system.

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   This one is WORTH reading.

   Also concerning because it speaks of the increasingly
   Big Brotherish atmosphere in Australia.

   Big Bro ALWAYS says massive surveillance and suppression
   of 'dangerous dissent' is vital for 'security'. However
   the truth is that it ONLY serves the high-up pols. The
   REAL "security" everyone is concerned about is down on
   the streets and is controlled and solved by ordinary cops
   doing ordinary cop stuff.

   Even Trump has gotten a bit heavy-handed at times, but
   in Oz it's become worse and has been for awhile. Now
   the PM keeps sucking Xis' dick ... seems to have
   given him some brain disease .......

   It is distressing that the concept of a "land of the
   free" seems to be SO short-lived. Are we to go back to
   kings and warlords, high-caliphs and Fearless Leaders
   THIS soon ???

   Maybe it's in our genes - but shit, we can put up
   a LITTLE better fight than this !