Late reply (took a long break from lemmy) but most people in the world do not have a passport unless they plan to travel. Applying for the first requires more documents, for subsequent applications (aka: "renews"), its just filling out a form (which could be done online nowadays I believe). If its expired for too long I think you have to do the "first time" procedure again.

I can't even find the "Beijing Plane crashing into building" incident on Baidu

lmfao

this censorship thing is so sensitive

Perhaps, but I'm trying to defend this timeline lol.

Because I really do not like the "I get stuck in PRC" timeline, even just the thought of it makes me have an existential crisis.

I like my Youtube, and video games, and the open internet (open for now at least, who knows about the future 🤷‍♂️), the idea of living behind that firewall sounds kinda depressing (VPNs are not exactly reliable).

But the again with something as drastic as one country nuking another... China might not even have any internet at all, and become like North Korea...

Like what do people even do for fun in that timeline? Play with rocks? 😭

No thanks, I like to keep the ability to bingewatch my "Non-Approved" "Counterrevolutionary" western media. (I mean like... did you hear, they limit video games to 1 hour for those under 18, like bruh wtf, anything fun is banned)

"External Threats" and "National Security" are reasons why hardliners get into power...

As someone who was fortunate enough to leave the regime, if that insane "nuking China" thing happened, PRC would never have opened the borders (or if it ever did, it'd be very controlled and not as open as current timeline) and it'd be another North Korea situation (but more massive) and mass poverty and mass starvations well into the 21st century.

This timeline, Chinese people can actually leave. I mean my family is one of the many that left.

So... If that nuking happened, then do you think PRC would still allow people to leave in that timeline?

That timeline would have a lot of Anti-Chinese sentinment (as in hatred of Chinese People, not just the government)

There's no chance I can even get in the US, I mean just look at how the west closed borders to Russians... so now Russian dissidents have a hard time trying to escape.

I mean perhaps it'd satisfy a lot of US White nationalists, but there'd be a Billion people suffering... that's not good...

But disclaimer: I'm Chinese American so perhaps I'm biased and have sympathy for people in China that have nothing to do with the CCP.

perhaps striking while China was weak could have been fortuitous

If China had gotten nuked by foreign powers, China today would've been more authoritarian, people would be a lot more nationalistic, and poverty would've been a lot worse, which in turn means that CCP would've cracked-down even harder on any dissent in order to try to maintain their grip on power and probably do more executions instead of today where they merely detain you or make you do those forced apologies

Being anti-CCP is fine, but don't forget about the civillians under their jurisdiction that are innocent to geopolitical conflicts.

As a Chinese American, I kinda WTFed at it when I first read the history about it online 💀

I'm glad nowadays we have more countries with nukes to balance each other...

Can you imagine if only ONE country has nukes... We'd be at the mercy of either: USA or France or Russia or UK (British Imperialism flashbacks 👀) or CCP-Controlled PRC...

More nukes makes a more peaceful ironically lol

I mean as a 2nd child born in violation of the policy... 👀

(I heard some stories about kids being kidnapped by state-sponsored people and trafficked to get them forcibly "adopted" to prospective parents somewhere else, and also the whole international adoption thingy, cuz they targed families that had more than one child... allegedly... who even knows for sure...)

Edit: But nowadays, ironically, they have population crisis... 👀

China is a big place. Saturation with security cameras is an urban thing.

Yea that incident was in Guangzhou, I assume nowadays its probably filled with surveillance cameras.

Also, something I’ve learned in America is that people make a lot of noise about keeping kids safe, but that’s all just smoke. I can’t speak for China

China might not have guns and mass shootings, but domestic abuse is an issue that the law doesn't really touch on, especially is its more covert like verbal abuse or even physical violence if it didn't cause serious harm...

Especially if its not a spouse-on-spouse thing but its a parent against a child...

Like there are things that would trigger a CPS investigation in the US that in China they wouldn't do much about, cuz its just treated as "discipline" and its "family matters" and legal system isn't touching this.

I think my parents fear of CPS is why once we arrived in the US, they stopped with their um... ahem "disciplinary actions" against me.

(Also maybe cuz I got older and can sort of fight back??? Maybe 🤷‍♂️)

(I actually cant even remember a specific instance of my mom hitting me anymore... must been a repressed memeory by now, but I'm pretty sure it happened)

Also teachers have meter sticks to hit kida with...

Okay its not a beating, but I remember like you had to put your hands out and then the teacher slapped your hands with the ruler...

Dont remember what for... maybe "behavior problems"?

Or perhaps poor grade is also one of the things... idk, memory in 1st and 2nd grade isn't exactly flawless...

But corporal punishment seems very acceptable in China...

Saw a movie recently about Taiwan's education system (not the main story, but the backdrop of the plot, main movie was about Taiwanese Americans moving back to Taiwan), and in the plot, the parents encouraged the teacher to use the ruler thing as a form of discipline... wtf... that was actually the thing that jogged my memories...

(The point being, same culture, even being politically divided and with a different government, the culture is same... adults just get to do whatever as "discipline")

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xD

Since I got summoned by a @ , gonna infodump cuz why not lol:

Funny enough now that my mom went to China for a 1-month visit, and now it's like 1 week in and I feel so sad about her absense from home...

The house feels so much more depressing... :/

I mean I guess this is a sort of "trial run" of what her eventual death would feel like...

Like... now I can call her... cuz now its just separated by an ocean, in this era, we have instantaneous communications...

someday it'll be separated by a barrier between the mortal realm and... whatever world beyond... the afterlife... spirit realm... or whatever...

I guess this is what my mom meant when she said she wanted to get married give birth to children... this same emptiness that I'm feeling...

I might never find love in life :(

Funny enough my older brother is also in China right now because mom pressured him to do marriage 🤣

(My parents are arranged marriage btw)

Welp its kinda awkward for a days old post to finally show up in Piefed instances as "3 Hours Ago"... 😶‍🌫️

"Please list everything bad about this world"

Bruh, there's already enough doomerism in c/worldnews, no need for that energy in c/asklemmy