[ashwinaj]

I am talking about Chinese citizens criticizing the Chinese govt. __in China__ the same way as American citizens can criticize the American govt. in America, if it wasn't obvious. And by criticizing I mean openly criticizing in public, not hiding behind some pseudonym online

[PeterisP]

It comes off as a play on the old Cold War joke (crude translation of how I remember it being told in the 1980s in Russian) with an American and a Russian discussing about their regimes; and the American proudly says - we have freedom of speech, I can go next to the White House with a banner saying "Reagan is a fool!" and that's going to be okay; to which the Russian responds - so what, that's not any advantage, I can also go to the Red Square with a banner saying "Reagan is a fool!" and there won't be any problems...

[the-dude]

An American and a Russian are sitting in a bar, arguing over whose country was better. The American argues,

"See, in America, I am free to do whatever I want. If I wanted to, I could walk right into the White House, slam my fist on the President's desk, and say 'Mr. President, I don't like the way you are running our country.'"

The Russian then said, "I can do the same thing."

"Really? You can?" asks the American.

"Yes," continues the Russian, "If I wanted to, I could walk right into the Kremlin, slam my fist on the General Secretary's office, and say 'Mr. General Secretary, I don't like the way President Reagan is running his country.'"

Sourced from https://upjoke.com/ronald-reagan-jokes