Safe to go to China with a US passport?

[mpbk]

Tim Cook is there .. or was there..

I would say considering all the macro geo political financial shit going on .. it's safe.

China does not need shit blowing up next week.

Old maxim: never say never.
Not sure where they are on the balloon issues... They won't refuse a free negotiating card, if it happened to fall into their hands, like Russia.

Just joking.
Don't say anything. Don't make faces. Have fun!

[Crankshaft]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUX-UAtKI2E

Which Hooters has the best looking girls? Just came back from Bangkok and the one in Nana was pretty good.

[hullexile]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUX-UAtKI2E

I was taken up to the tea plantations by a student. Then we walked down the mountain across several streams (13?) by stepping stone. Unfortunately it was in a typhoon so the stepping stones were often underwater. Hard getting taxi when soaking wet.

I also walked up a hill overlooking the lake and found a Taoist temple complete with monks (I don't mean the big touristy Buddhist temple). My colleague, a member of the CCP, denied there were any Taoist temples in Hangzhou!

[East_coast]

I was taken up to the tea plantations by a student. Then we walked down the mountain across several streams (13?) by stepping stone. Unfortunately it was in a typhoon so the stepping stones were often underwater. Hard getting taxi when soaking wet.

I also walked up a hill overlooking the lake and found a Taoist temple complete with monks (I don't mean the big touristy Buddhist temple). My colleague, a member of the CCP, denied there were any Taoist temples in Hangzhou!

I just walked up a hill and spent a few hours listening to ladies singing songs while picking tea leaves. Such lovely melodies. They let me pick tea with them for a while. They were 20x faster at least

[HK_Katherine]

I don't think it's an unreasonable question. My husband won't go to China these days (we have been in the past). After those Canadians got arrested as pawns it does worry me.

[redslert]

Those Canadians were not as clean as you think. There are thousands of Canadians expats in China.

[AsianXpat0]

Guilty until proven innocent is indeed easy enough to apply to 50 centers. Fortunately the consequences for personal liberty aren’t quite as serious.

The coverage on the WSJ reporter taken in Russia was interesting, apparently the first taken on charges of espionage since the end of the Cold War. Cases like those of Ching Cheong and Cheng Lei make me wonder who exactly has the Cold War mentality.

Anyway to me it’s a question of risk tolerance. There are indeed thousands of flights that operate safely daily, including by carriers with less enviable safety records, but whether you want to get on one is a personal choice. As correctly pointed out, as merely a transitory tourist, in all probability one wouldn’t be singled out as “unclean”, or for people less conclusive of the relevant facts, unlucky.

[East_coast]

Those Canadians were not as clean as you think. There are thousands of Canadians expats in China.

Evidence?

[Pauljoecoe]

Evidence?

Can't be bothered to research it but I remember reading back when it was news about one having some drug smuggling convictions or something of that ilk.????