I lived in China for a while (2009-2010), and it's always been like this. They can (and will) jail you for whatever reason they want, and will seldom tell anyone. I had an Indonesian roommate whose uncle was arrested. He went on a business trip to China, and just vanished. They found him in a Chinese prison via private investigator- 4 YEARS later. Took another 2 years to prove his innocence of tax evasion. I was nearly arrested for trying to go to my class. To the officer who wanted to arrest me, there was no valid reason for me to go into the building aside from helping Chinese students cheat on their standardized test. If two of my Chinese buddies hadn't come by right then and pulled me out of the situation, I'd still be rotting over there.
My nephew is entrenched there, in or near Shanghai, since I think 2015.
It was his dream to join the diplomatic corp and studied China and their languages in high school including 6 months there as an exchange student.
He flat refused his very liberal Portland and now Bend OR parents' efforts and the purchased flight home in late February, said no problem being American there and free heathcare if he got sick so he was just going to wait it out in his apt and teach his students online.
My brother said he was fine in early March when he related the above, acted like they were worried for no reason... but has gone radio silence to our Mom and with anything family related online since then. I fear they don't have any contact fromtheir only child since but are afraid to say that in any communications. And no one wants to ask.
I suppose my Mom's tart he chose to stay in the bed he made rather than be smart or careful is still true. But I truly fear the worst of got sick and no message allowed to be sent out of China- or he got taken away as a foreigner when things got really bad there.
I lived in China for a while (2009-2010), and it's always been like this. They can (and will) jail you for whatever reason they want, and will seldom tell anyone. I had an Indonesian roommate whose uncle was arrested. He went on a business trip to China, and just vanished. They found him in a Chinese prison via private investigator- 4 YEARS later. Took another 2 years to prove his innocence of tax evasion. I was nearly arrested for trying to go to my class. To the officer who wanted to arrest me, there was no valid reason for me to go into the building aside from helping Chinese students cheat on their standardized test. If two of my Chinese buddies hadn't come by right then and pulled me out of the situation, I'd still be rotting over there.
God was looking out for you by the sound of it.
Indeed He was.
My nephew is entrenched there, in or near Shanghai, since I think 2015.
It was his dream to join the diplomatic corp and studied China and their languages in high school including 6 months there as an exchange student.
He flat refused his very liberal Portland and now Bend OR parents' efforts and the purchased flight home in late February, said no problem being American there and free heathcare if he got sick so he was just going to wait it out in his apt and teach his students online.
My brother said he was fine in early March when he related the above, acted like they were worried for no reason... but has gone radio silence to our Mom and with anything family related online since then. I fear they don't have any contact fromtheir only child since but are afraid to say that in any communications. And no one wants to ask.
I suppose my Mom's tart he chose to stay in the bed he made rather than be smart or careful is still true. But I truly fear the worst of got sick and no message allowed to be sent out of China- or he got taken away as a foreigner when things got really bad there.