As you all on DU know, I live back in China again with my wife after the Green Card debacle

[AZLD4Candidate]

With all the things happening here, I will try to give a on the ground update.

Anyone with any questions, please ask me. I will answer to the best of my ability.

This is a nervous time now. I have job offers in Beijing and Changzhou. My wife is terrified to go to beijing now.

BTW, my wife and her small community in the rural part of Jiangsu support the protestors.

[Skittles]

1. thank you for the updates

wishing the best for both of you

[Lasher]

2. Tell us about the protests in cities like Beijing and Shanghai.

What does that look like to you?

[AZLD4Candidate]

3. Lots of people mostly younger than 35. Police are being very heavy handed

Snatching cell phone and deleting videos. Threatening women with violence. Attacking men and black bagging them.

It's very, very tense. It's a powder keg right now in Shanghai and it's bleeding over into Kunshan and Suzhou too.

Personally, I believe the army will roll in and start firing again. All it will take for this to erupt is a bullet killing a child. If ten adults can spark this level of protest, then a murdered child will explode it.

Authoritarians only know one response. Brutalize unarmed protestors.

[Lasher]

4. Is this why your wife is afraid to go to Beijing?

Tell me about your job offers.

[AZLD4Candidate]

6. between the protests and the lockdown, she is terrified.

1: beijing: 35k a month, two year contract, free two bedroom apartment on campus, full benefits, wife on health insurance, lots of monetary benefits included. middle school assignment. attached to the most prestigious university in China.

2: other offer: 31k a month, two year contract, free three bedroom apartment off campus, full benefits, wife on health insurance, growth opportunities. high school assignment. Chinese school set up by a prestigious posh private British school in Manchester.

both give free tuition for children. beijing is an AP school, other place is an IGCSE/A-level school.

[Lasher]

7. Thanks, AZLD4.

You and your wife stay safe!

[Dorian Gray]

5. Are you not worried

about expressing your opinion online? I have many a friend who live in hong kong, and they're circumspect about posting on social media.

What kind of internet restrictions are there in China? I know they don't allow websites like Twitter, though they've been flooding the zone here on twitter with porn under searches for the cities where protests are being held.... But a website like DU would not fall under their radar? How closely are things monitored.

[AZLD4Candidate]

8. i have VPN so I get around the blocks. DU would be blocked any other way.

They have no ability to monitor non chinese websites, which is why their internet has pretty much turned into an intranet.

China has one of the most censored internet systems in the world. The CCP uses western media to propagandize, but denies its people use of the media or to even see it.

Blocked sites:
youtube
twitter
wikipedia
facebook
instagram
snapchat
Line
whatsapp
telegram
tinder
new york times
google
yahoo pulled out of china
DU
craigslist
blogspot
aol
netflix
most western news agencies
discord
patreon
zoom

and this is not an exhaustive list

[Dorian Gray]

9. Can you Tik Tok freely? lol

[AZLD4Candidate]

10. Of course. It's Chinese. I can wechat, taobao, weibo, renrenwang, and youku too.

I can Voov too.

[Celerity]

12. Be very careful m8, you are in a technologically advanced authoritarian nation state that uses

massive surveillance to enforce totalitarian rule. You already have a large target on your back as an American citizen living there.

[electric_blue68]

15. I think Celerity has a Good Point! Please be more careful!

[station agent]

11. Posting here might not be a great idea. Please be careful nt

[oldsoftie]

13. Get her, find a loose border, and get OUT.

[DemocraticPatriot]

17. YOU are FINALLY Reunited ???

I hope it is so!!!!


Yes, I recall your long heartbreak from your posts here...

[AZLD4Candidate]

19. Been reunited since Early September.

[DemocraticPatriot]

20. very glad to hear it,

I am happy for you both!!!


I wish you luck in resolving all further difficulties....!

[BlackSkimmer]

18. I remember in one of your updates you said you had a job already at a prestigious

school. What happened that you’re now looking again?

[JCMach1]

21. VPN's can be blocked, make sure you also install TOR and link to bridges while you still have access

ORBOT works well for your phone...

Also, put TOR on your laptop.