So you’re a German software engineer who is fluent in Chinese, and reads pro Chinese “newspapers” from Singapore? You also happen to be awake at all hours of the day, and speak completely fluent English. You’re also a German who for some reason is extremely pro RPC? Color me skeptical. It’s also hilarious that you just did exactly what the top comment pointed out you would do:

> Claim to be part of a group held dear by the audience.

> Antistatement: Im totally against <topic>, but <propaganda narrative talking points >.

Btw, the interview questions seem very clearly aimed at creating a narrative, so yes. There were no personal questions, only questions aimed at supporting a narrative.

China has a documented history of such tactics. For example, state TV aired the “confessions” of Chinese human rights lawyers Wang Yu and Jiang Tianyong when they were in detention. Lawyers literally convicted of “subverting state power”, “inciting subversion of state power” or “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”.

Women coming forward in the US is hard enough, and women being silenced here is still a problem. Never mind a country where no state official is investigated for such things, where there is no free press to independently investigate these things, with a history of arresting and disappearing activists.

But let’s hand wave all of that clear and consistent history away, or pretend it doesn’t matter.

Show me an open and transparent investigation of Zhang Gaoli. I’ll wait.