I lived in china for 6 years. The level of censorship can be matched by no one else. You experience the suffocation only when you've lived in china for a considerable amount of time. But having said that there are a lot of VPN services out there too to provide access to blocked content.

The issue with china is the level of eye washing that goes on. Stuff they don't want you to know, they're pretty good at hiding them.

I remember the G20 summit which was held in hangzhou. Hangzhou, despite being a very beautiful city, was inhumanely polluted! A couple of months before the summit, china shut down all the industries in and around hangzhou and any foreigner who went for holidays were asked by the universities to not come back until the summit was over.

During the summit, China was able to showcase how _clean" and pollution free their country is and that they're not hugely responsible for the global warming that's happening and all that stuff!! After the summit ended, we were back to suffocating and days of not being able to get out of the house for pollution!

That's China for you!