China travel: Americans and other Westerners are increasingly scared of traveling there as threat of detention rises CNN 3/10/2021 © leah abucayan/cnn/Getty Images
Jeff Wasserstrom is a self-proclaimed China specialist who is seriously considering never returning to China at least, he says, not while President Xi Jinping is in power. © Lintao Zhang/Getty Images AsiaPac/Getty Images Chinese President Xi Jinping with then US Vice President Joe Biden inside the Great Hall of the People on December 4, 2013 in Beijing, China.
The American professor, who for decades made multiple trips a year to China and was last there in 2018, hasn t focused his career on Tibet or Taiwan lightning-rod issues which attract Beijing s ire at lightning-quick speed but he has written about cultural diversity and student protests in mainland China, and appeared on panels with people he says the Communist Party is clearly upset with.
Has the risk of arbitrary detention made China unsafe to travel to for foreigners?
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