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So here's the thing: I'm reading all these anti-ICE news articles from within the US, but I go on baidu and qq news and can't find a thing criticizing Xi Jinping... hmmm... weird right? Why is that you think?
As an Naturalized American citizen born in China, I'd say if you are white and have birthright citizenship, you are, on average, in a better position than an average Han Chinese born in China. Maybe this would change in the future, but I'd still say for the time being, US is still better, at least if you are white.
There are edge scenarios where an Han Chinese could potentially have a better life in China, but that's not the case for my family. I lived in a shitty part of Guangzhou that tourists don't get to see, just like tourists visiting the US don't typically go to Flint Michigan, or Kensington, Philadelphia, PA
Also FUCKING HUKOU I was BORN IN GUANGZHOU and they never give me Guangzhou Hukou status... so my family are just treated as second class residents. Me and my brother were not allowed in Guangzhou Public schools. Our Hukou was inherited from parents, and they are from Taishan, its rural. So my parents ended up paying for privately-run schools that are lower quality of education in Guangzhou cuz otherwise we'd be left behind in the village and that would've been even more depressing.
And my parents had to be either busy working all day, or be looking for work the entire day. Didn't see them often, sometimes grandma wasn't even available to look over us and mom took me to work.
And don't get me started on the One Child Policy that NEARLY resulted in me being forcibly aborted by the CCP against my mother's wishes. Fuck them. They sterilized my mother for the policy violation.