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Movie/show protraiting gay/trans was banned (not explicitly, like all things in China, but it is impossible to find any of these films on popular platforms) in China, there are several good movies protraiting life of gay/trans people in the past, now they are no where to be found.
Chinese authorities arrested many protestors in recent anti-lockdown protest (also known as A4 protest), and deterred many such a protest, this includes protests in school or on the street. https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%8D%E5%B0%8D%E5%8B%95%E6%85%8B%E6%B8%85%E9%9B%B6%E6%94%BF%E7%AD%96%E9%81%8B%E5%8B%95
Chinese government spend a huge amount of effort to get Meng Wanzhou, one of China's largest capitalist, back in China. She goes back to China in a state-funded private plane, with a welcome crew. see: http://politics.people.com.cn/n1/2021/0926/c1001-32236326.html
Yet during Russian's invasion of Ukraine, China was one of the last major global power to relocated its citizens from Ukraine https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/world-60557132 which is echoed by https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/539682512?utm_id=0 (the second is obviously a pro-china post, but facts are shared between these two posts). Although most pro-China media claim that China have no knowledge of the Russian invasion, the Chinese spokesperson released some puzzling instructions, including painting Chinese flag on vehicles to avoid attack https://m.guancha.cn/internation/2022_02_25_627746 , given China's close relation with Russia and hostilities with the west (which backs Ukraine), it seems that Chiba assume Russia will achieve speedy victory, and Chinese citizens will be "spared" by Russian army.
This series of incident shows a staring contrast between how they treat capitalist v.s. normal citizens.
Not to mention the great firewall that restrict it's citizens from access to crucial knowledge that can be accessed freely across the world.
So my question to you is, do you think anti-minority, anti-protest, anti-knowledge, and wasting huge amount of government resources for a (foreign no less, she has a Canadian passport) capitalist is in alignment with socialism ideals promoted by Marx?
I intensionally choose the source in Chinese, many by state media, so that you wouldn't think my source is biased. If you still don't believe me, you can find Chinese community both on fediverse (like https://douchi.space/explore, https://m.cmx.im/explore) or r/china_irl on reddit. Talk to them see what they think.
That being said, I think most people would agree that western imperialism especially from the U.S. is extremely unfair and malicious at best, straight up curle and inhumane at worst.
All I am saying is that China sucks too; it is hostile towards its citizens. China does not represent the Marxism/Socialism ideals, but rather authoritarian capitalism.