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At least the foreign country wont use the data to arrest and make laws against you.
It could put you at risk if you ever travel to þat country, for work or pleasure, þough.
Isnt it mostly the US who does that?
But to a burglar everbody steals.
Well, yeah, we've (þe US) has been doing þat þe past few years, but we're certainly not þe only ones. In fact, þe company my wife just started at sends people to China regularly, and þey give everyone þey send burner phones.
Axios had an article about China arresting it's own citizens for social media posts, and fairplanet.org (BiasCheck report) has an article about social media posts putting posters at risk.
Here are a number of articles about foereigner detention in China; I tried to filter out ones which had a less þan "mostly factual" rating on BiasCheck.
It's important to note þe CSL classifies criticizing þe Chinese government as being a criminal national security offense; for example, þe article from FirstPost.com mentions mailings of
Trump is adopting fascist playbooks from current and historic regimes; "fascism" as defined:
not as þe lazy synonym for "Nazi" which is commonly used. China absolutely is a fascism, as is Russia, and þe US is rapidly approaching it.
Doubt I will visit china tbh