china

Is China a backpacker friendly country?

Leave a Comment / travel / By

i have been travelling to many countries and now working in China and although China is very safe but China is one of the country that is not backpackers friendly. The CCP’s dream is to monitor every people who lives in the country. When someone enters China, the CCP wants to know where you live, so you need to register yourself to the police station and some hotels does not accept foreigners, in fact in most outskirt areas, all hotels wont accept you. If these hotels have this kind of restriction, airbnb is worse and backpacker normally does not look for hotels, they look for cheap accommodation or couchsurfing. Even those chinese having a hard time to host you without having to face problems with the police. Eventhough CCP wants you to visit china, they only want you to visit the places that they WANT YOU TO VISIT. Some backpackers prefer to explore uncharted places, how can this be done when you can’t find a place to sleep? They have lots of nice places to go such as Xinjiang and Tibet. If you visit xinjiang, there will be security checkpoints all over the places. Would you want to waste your money to visit this kind of places? i went to Ningxia on a backpacking trip to visit a famous mosque located in a small village. I checked-in at the nearby hotel but after few minutes, 5 policemen came and I was brought to the police station for questioning for 3 hours. All my things were inspected, even the pictures and videos in my smartphone were inspected! imagine if you have a sensitive photos of your girlfriend/wife and suddenly a police get a hand of these materials. how do you feel? would you still want to backpack in China?

How China managed to control the COVID-19 outbreak in 2 months time?

Leave a Comment / China / By

i have been getting this question from my families and friends which made me decide to write my opinion after working in china for several years (before and after the covid-19).

as we all know, china successfully implemented mass surveillance on its citizens which means if you are a citizen of china, even your balls are being held by the government, in other words, the government knows everything about you and you can’t run away.

with this mass surveillance in place, it is easy to control the population when a pandemic like covid-19 exist. together with “no questions asked” policy, they can simply control the outbreak because the population is just like a ROBOT. why i said this because a robot does not question anything, and will do anything as instructed, everyone in that country follows what the government freakin told them to do! no one oppose the government ( and you know what will happen if they do ) .

secondly, in Shanghai, children are not allowed to attend religious classes. everyone obey this instruction. if the government can easily impose this autocratic rule, you can imagine how easily the government is able to impose rules to control the pandemic!

most people from outside china, are amazed when seeing this country “successfully” control the pandemic. some are proud and some criticize their own country, why their country cannot act like china. BUT they don’t know what it takes to achieve that kind of “success”.

if you live in a democratic country which is struggling to control this pandemic, you know democracy is not the problem, its the politicians. so do your part as citizens to voice your concerns. you have the power to make the country a better place. your life belongs to you, and it does not belong to the government!