[knzhou]

> However, I have no fear of speaking publicly about Guantanamo Bay and then traveling to the US.

I think you're too optimistic. If you'd made similar comments during the Red Scare, you would have ended up like Qian Xuesen, the Chinese-American who devoted the best years of his life to developing American technology, but who ended up fired and placed under house arrest for years for his ethnicity. This process of arbitrary arrest of Chinese people has never stopped -- and in recent years it has dramatically accelerated. Obviously, it doesn't make the HN front page. Nobody cares.

Before I joined HN I was quite naive, but now I understand that many Americans are anticipating a second Red Scare with glee, and some even long for World War III. Representation in films and politics and so on is a nice wish, but it will obviously be impossible under those conditions. As will many other things.

[nouveaux]

I see your point regarding Qian Xuesen and that whole thing was a tragedy for United States. Similar things can be said about the US treatment of Japanese Americans and internment camps.

Your point is exactly why we need to be afraid of any government's suppression of free speech. We need to support people like Jimmy Lai so the likes United States and the CCP cannot suppress the voice of good people. We need to be fearful of any government arresting anyone advocating for freedom. Regardless of your government, the goal is to support free speech and the freedom of the press.