If you want some proper advice, don't on social media saying you don't trust the Chinese police....especially when they have all your details.
If you want some proper advice, don't on social media saying you don't trust the Chinese police....especially when they have all your details.
Maybe they thought you worked for the bbc.
shanghaiist.com/2017/03/03/bbc_sign_forced_confession.php
Security directives to local govs are extra tight this year and ever year progressively in order to catch the petitioners that try for Beijing.
Personally I'm not going to worry about any of this.
Considering how chaotic the world is currently, any country trying to keep things in order, is doing things right. Russia and China understand very well to avoid deepening a chaos, the kind of chaos Europe is voluntarily sinking into. Theres enough problems on their own, allowing a social chaos in some countries now would have serious consequences. It goes without saying.
I rather doubt if the measures under discussion are very likely either to allow or prevent 'social chaos' - at any rate we are not having it here at present, tho the future may be a mess everywhere.
Alien, you could have said like that in the 90's, behind a big pile of them Chomsky books of yours, and things would have been cool. While plenty laowais aint got no clue whats going on around them, as they are so full of themselves, your case seems to be that your brains have stopped updating. Its okay anyway, why not boil some city water and go up to Xishan slurping it, and write some poetry of the amazing world around?
For once Peter is talking some sence.
At the end of the day its having a photograph of your passport, no harm done. There are reasons for it I'm sure and if It makes a train journey safer for anyone then by all means it should be done. China isn't sitting back like Europe and for that its should be applauded.
Passport issues
Police are required to give you a receipt if you hand over your passport.
If a police officer takes a photo of the passport I would expect a photo of the officer's ID.
I would call the police( nearby) if some obscurity guard was asking for photos of my passport.
Maybe Peter has been right for years and it's only now that it's being realized. People are very quick to shoot people down, just because their opinions or perceptions are not mainstream. Very dangerous indeed it is.
@vicar
Now let's not get carried away. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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