Thanks for taking the time to go into all this detail. If nothing else I will keep an open mind that everything we know in the west is wrong, and hope that a world led by China is a world worth wanting.

I wouldn’t have thought open homosexuality a possibility in present day Iran.

Men kissing men in public, holding hands, hugging, slapping each other’s bottoms (probably). But always no-homo. That’s the usual way.

If things are indeed that progressive, like the Iran before the current theocratic government, everything I know is wrong.

But do you do it in public, online or offline? What about protests? What about strikes?

Where are the independent news organizations and invitations to during media to prove to the world everything we think is wrong with the Converse government is a lie?

Why the great firewall of China?

You’re right that’s a thing, it isn’t that.

My Chinese friends living in New Zealand as dual citizens are afraid to criticize the Chinese government even in private online conversations. That says a lot, I think.