“No one can measure what people inside China truly think, because dissent carries a heavy price, and many Chinese abroad stay cautious too. But those who dare to speak freely tell a different story. The American chaos is real, yet it is the visible surface of something harder to see: liberty, power checking power and a society free enough to keep inventing. The noise is the sound of a nation arguing with itself rather than obeying one man or one party. What many Chinese viewers see is not a nation falling apart, but a freedom they have never been allowed to have at home.”
—Yan Zhou, The Hill
