> Yes, they are. There is a world of difference. In the West you normal people have so much power they do not even realise.

In my West people are jailed without trial (Guantanamo, and other secret prisons) or cases are fabricated to bring them to jail (Assange).

> I have lived in China as a privileged engineer/expatriate.

> Basically most people have no idea what a country without rule of law(like China) is.

So you give up priviledges to return to a country where the rule of law is observed.

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