I mean... I know quite a few Chinese people, working in a large, expensive university like I do.

Their views on their gov't are interesting and very little of what the US media says about China lines up with what actual Chinese people say about their life experiences being from China.

First and foremost, the US pointing the "human rights violation" finger at China is as laughable as it is absurd.
Every country has dirty laundry in the human rights dept. The US's prison system is appalling from any perspective, and a travesty of human rights. It has been repeatedly shown that the entire criminal and judicial system in the US has been subtly manicured to disproportionately criminalize, incarcerate and strip the right to vote from specifically blacks, but also many minority groups.

So, like, perspective helps in understanding why they're so unconcerned about that stuff. Most Americans aren't concerned about the prison system or the fact that many of our laws are designed to persecute US citizens. Grain of salt when judging.


Also, I work in a university, and I can't exactly speak to student life or life on other campuses, but it's not like the Republican students are being openly persecuted any more than they're also openly persecuting the Democrat students. The faculty tends to be more Dem than Rep, but it's not 1-sided by any means. I don't have any idea what percentage of students are what political affiliation.