China really isn’t like the DPRK. It’s not like you are under surveillance, or anyone cares what you say or think as long as you don’t have a big audience. Well, it used to be like that, but things changed in the 80s, progress has been made.

It is just frustrating that there are so many regressions. The opening up of the mid-late 80s was of course crushed after 6/4, but then there was the opening up that happened before the Olympics that was then throttled back really quickly (and indeed, internet censorship became much more harsh than it ever was). Annoying to say the least.