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> I just feel that it is very tragic if a person cannot choose his own nationality and destiny. The really miserable people, such as North Koreans and many Chinese, if you are willing to help them, you should say no to the visa system and let the national borders cease to exist.

I think you would enjoy reading the Terra Ignota series[1].

[1]: https://www.adapalmer.com/series/terra-ignota/

> His political leanings are clear. Of course, when asked about Xinjiang, his reply can hardly be used as a criterion for whether he has been brainwashed. If he publicly said this in China in the way that Westerners think he has been "brainwashed", he would have been arrested.

lol this is always one of my pet peeves with Western "journalists".

"Hey I've got this celebrity/author/whomever from China here, let me try to have a Barbara Walters moment and ask them a profound question about something-controversial-in-China that will get them or their family killed!"

I'm not sure what the solution is, but I'm convinced it's just journalists patting themselves on teh back.

I mean even coming from a democracy I don’t feel responsible for domestic or foreign American policy. It’s not even really a gotcha question. I don’t run the country.

> Because his writing style is so poor and very wordy, there are almost no golden sentences

Did you read it in Chinese? I have only read English translations of his work, and I assumed the style issues were more related to the translation than anything else.

Yes. In fact, Liu's Chinese writing level is far lower than the average Chinese writer. In the original Chinese version, there are actually many words that are offensive to female (this is understandable considering his Chinese background and age). But as far as I know, these are optimized in translation. So his imagination is better amplified.

Unlikely, since the translator is an author in his own right, and his work does not suffer from this problem.

If you can’t separate the books world and the person, then you are just gonna make everything hard to be enjoyed. Every person has issues either you know it or not, say your favourite writer, you just haven’t found out a secret that pisses you off about them yet.

> To overuse the word "concentration camp" is to disrespect the tragic dead of World War II.

What? No. Not at all.

The exploitation and killing of prisoners in concentration camps predates WW2, and the use of "concentration camps" to describe those camps is fully appropriate. From the killing of the Boers by the British, to the genocide of Armenians by the Turks, to the killing of undesired by the Germans, to the forced internment, "re-education" and sterilization of Uyghurs by the Chinese.

you are right. But what I mean is that there is no need to make exaggerated reports, but it should be discussed from the perspective of the Chinese government's serious violations of laws and human rights, even if the Chinese government will argue that "this is my internal affairs." Exaggerated reporting is a barbaric and dishonest act that does nothing to solve the problem and prevents the public from understanding the true context of the matter.

There are no real receivable counter-arguments to the fact that forced-sterilization of a population group fully qualifies as "genocide", and, as such, warrants to be widely and thoroughly reported, with all the gravity an alarm necessary for such a serious matter.

We can go even further by adding that in such blatant violations of human rights, requiring a "balanced" reporting considering "the other side's" views is not much more than an attempt at diluting the seriousness of the situation to distract away from the facts. But then again, in the light of current conflicts in some parts of the world, it seems to be a favored approach.

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