Tuesday, March 26, 2024

There are more than 10 million missing people in China every year, so why do many people say that China is safer than Japan?

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It is IMPOSSIBLE to be missing in China.

Every street, road, highway, store, phone, internet service, electronic device is monitored by AI. If you wear a mask, the AI can demask you via the thermal imaging of the cameras.

I will relate a story.

In 2019, a tenant totally destroyed my house that I was renting out to him. Then after he destroyed it, he skipped town, and I wasn’t able to visit my apartment until two months later.

At that time, the case was cold. He fled Shenzhen, and when Lord-knows-where. His phone number no longer worked and he was gone.

So, I went to the police and filed a complaint.

The next day they found him. Picked him up. He was in Jiangsu in a small remote town in the mountains. It didn’t matter. They had a complete video record from the last time he left the apartment to the cars, the busses, the trains that he rode in. Everything was tracked.

Today, it is impossible to commit a crime in China in secret.

Now, there was a time, say ten years ago where people did disappear. Kids were stolen. Young people were kidnapped. Some of the stories that I have heard and read about were totally horrific. And nothing to take lightly.

But that has, over time disappeared.

Oh, sure, there are elements that still persist in the darker and dimly lit areas of China. But the vast bulk of the crimes and criminal activities have been culled into non-existence. From 2013 to present. Step by step. Arrest by arrest.

China plods on.

And is ridiculed at every turn. Like, for instance, this “question”.

But still…

China today, 2024, is a very safe place to live.

UPDATE 20MAR24

There was a horrific death in China. A 13 year old boy was tortured by bullies from his school, and he died during the torture. It rocked the entire nation. All the boys were caught and are facing serious punishments.

13-year-old boy in N. China’s Hebei bullied and killed by three classmates
Photo: Sina Weibo A 13-year-old boy in Handan, North China’s Hebei Province, who had been suffering long-term bullying from his three classmates, was reportedly killed by the classmates and buried in an abandoned vegetable shed on Sunday. The three suspects have been arrested by the local police, Xinhuanghe news portal of Jinan Daily reported on Wednesday. An investigation team has been dispatched to verify if the boy, a middle school student from Feixiang district, had suffered bullying at the school, the local education authority in Handan said. The victim, named Xiao Guang (pseudonym), was bullied and killed by his three classmates at 5 pm on Sunday. His body was buried in an abandoned vegetable shed not far from the home of one of the three suspects. An official from the Zhangzhuang village told the Xinhuanghe news portal that the three suspects have been caught by the local police and the local public security bureau said that the case is being dealt with. According to the victim’s father surnamed Wang, the boy left home at around 1 pm on Sunday and lost contact with his family around 5 pm. The boy’s family members searched for him for five hours until 10 pm but there was no sign of his whereabouts. After receiving the alarm, the police found through surveillance that Xiao Guang was hanging out with three male students, who unanimously denied that they had met the boy. By checking Xiao Guang’s WeChat messages, the father found that his son had transferred some money to one of the three suspects. Facing with the evidence of surveillance and money transferring records, the three students admitted that Xiao Guang was buried in the abandoned vegetable shed. Wang expressed deep grief when the boy’s body was recovered and his face had been badly destroyed by the shovel, according to the report of Xinhuanghe. Wang was shocked that the three students, aged 13 or 14, were not only suspected of killing his son, but also buried and attempted to damage his body. Xiao Guang was a nice boy with good temper and character and he loved to help his parents with house chores, Wang said. Wang said Xiao Guang had previously expressed his reluctance to go to school but the parents did not take it seriously and did not realize that the boy had been bullied for a long time at school. Global Times
Detention of 3 teens over the gruesome killing of a 13-year-old classmate sparks a debate in China
The case will be a test of a change in the law that lowered the age at which children could be charged with a crime from 14 to 12.

But the thing here is that the boys did this event in an “abandoned” room, in a old building. They thought that they were not being watched.

Nope.

The entire event was caught on video.

On a camera, too small to be noticed.

And that video made it’s way to the Chinese citizenry that are now calling for immediate death to the bad bullies. (I tried to post the video on youtube, but I got a strike for attempting to do that. Sorry.)

In China, you cannot commit a crime without being filmed. 

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