I've lived in China for 5+ years and have been in HK for a decade now. This is not "becoming China", it's just the collapse of the western world into tyranny while everyone else looks on in cautious amusement.

When I travel through certain western nations I VPN back to HK to avoid censorship and monitoring.

I also use dedicated devices when travelling through countries like Australia because customs have searched and imaged them in the past, demanded my passwords etc.

As a side note, I also didn't travel to any "free" countries during covid because they all wanted to force me into getting an mRNA "vaccine". China didn't do that to me.

There's a reason why the manufacturing of consent for some kind of war with "bad" countries is ramping up - the threat of war is a great distraction from the rapid onslaught of anti-pleb fuckery.