Talking about matters that are important to the powers that be is always unsafe, unless you vehemently agree with them. You are only safe in the West if the government considers you a clown that nobody will pay attention to. Someone like Julian Assange they will do their darndest to destroy.

It's like China, respect the local politics and it's an amazing place to travel.

Much safer than let's say France.

With China, that might not be true given the recent unprompted stabbings of foreigners.

US professors on an exchange program: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna156485

A schoolbus of Japanese children: https://www.ft.com/content/954dd160-3102-477f-b816-1a1769f0a...

In China, everyone can tell you are a foreigner because of the ethnical/racial differencies.

These seem like isolated freak events in a big country, a bit like saying USA is dangerous because of school shoitings

It’s hardly a secret that the Chinese government stokes nationalist sentiment as a useful way to get legitimacy and distract from domestic issues. The problem with doing this is that you start flirting with the possibility of violence.

This isn’t even the first time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_anti-Japanese_demonstrati...

And the government is well aware of the dangers given that the opinions that they need to rein it in come from the same state media that promotes nationalist sentiment. Xi’s China in particular is far more nationalist than its predecessors.