China is a big place. Saturation with security cameras is an urban thing.
Yea that incident was in Guangzhou, I assume nowadays its probably filled with surveillance cameras.
Also, something I’ve learned in America is that people make a lot of noise about keeping kids safe, but that’s all just smoke. I can’t speak for China
China might not have guns and mass shootings, but domestic abuse is an issue that the law doesn’t really touch on, especially is its more covert like verbal abuse or even physical violence if it didn’t cause serious harm…
Especially if its not a spouse-on-spouse thing but its a parent against a child…
Like there are things that would trigger a CPS investigation in the US that in China they wouldn’t do much about, cuz its just treated as “discipline” and its “family matters” and legal system isn’t touching this.
I think my parents fear of CPS is why once we arrived in the US, they stopped with their um… ahem “disciplinary actions” against me.
(Also maybe cuz I got older and can sort of fight back??? Maybe 🤷♂️)
(I actually cant even remember a specific instance of my mom hitting me anymore… must been a repressed memeory by now, but I’m pretty sure it happened)
Also teachers have meter sticks to hit kida with…
Okay its not a beating, but I remember like you had to put your hands out and then the teacher slapped your hands with the ruler…
Dont remember what for… maybe “behavior problems”?
Or perhaps poor grade is also one of the things… idk, memory in 1st and 2nd grade isn’t exactly flawless…
But corporal punishment seems very acceptable in China…
Saw a movie recently about Taiwan’s education system (not the main story, but the backdrop of the plot, main movie was about Taiwanese Americans moving back to Taiwan), and in the plot, the parents encouraged the teacher to use the ruler thing as a form of discipline… wtf… that was actually the thing that jogged my memories…
(The point being, same culture, even being politically divided and with a different government, the culture is same… adults just get to do whatever as “discipline”)
I mean as a 2nd child born in violation of the policy… 👀
(I heard some stories about kids being kidnapped by state-sponsored people and trafficked to get them forcibly “adopted” to prospective parents somewhere else, and also the whole international adoption thingy, cuz they targed families that had more than one child… allegedly… who even knows for sure…)
Edit: But nowadays, ironically, they have population crisis… 👀