South Korea’s coastguard said Tuesday it had arrested a Chinese national who tried to enter the country after travelling by jet ski from China – a journey of more than 300 kilometres (186 miles).
Wearing a life vest and helmet, the man crossed the Yellow Sea on a 1800-cc jet ski from Shandong province, using binoculars and a compass to navigate and towing five barrels of fuel.
“He refilled the petrol on the ride and dumped the empty barrels into the sea,” the coastguard said in a press release.
That’s actually pretty badass.
Does anyone know what the sea is like on that trip? I would think if it was not very calm this would be a nightmare.
I don’t really know but…
Looking at it on a map it looks like it’s a huge bay, enclosed on 3 sides. I doubt there would be any significant “swell”. There might be small waves whipped up on a windy day but barely enough to trouble you on a jet ski particularly if you’re moving.
The main risk would be exposure. Too hot, too cold or too much sun even on a cold day can really fuck you up.
I’ve sailed there, granted it was on a merchant ship, and it varies a lot. If it’s little or no wind or a slight breeze from the west he would be fine weatherwise but when we had a small storm pass through it was a bit rough even on a 200m ship. Would look carefully on the weather report before attempting this, especially since he was towing his fuel.
Hope he gets asylum.
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not fast enough, clearly
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Does hexbear like china?
I think you mis-spelled “fellate”.
That is what you do to USA, though.
They have too cute a logo for such ugly ideas. It’s not fair!
Hexbear really does live in your head rent free eh?
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SKCG didn’t want to identify him but someone else identified him anyway. lmao why do the agencies even try.
Bro studied in Iowa 😐
Lol
Real OG
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“Let’s work together and topple this invisible wall” Mr. Kwon said in the Twitter post
He described himself as “dedicated to overturning communism.”
showing images saying “use our votes to overthrow the government”
Hoh boy
Voting is the proper way to overthrown the government. The other ways are more violent.
What about when the “proper” way doesn’t work?
Vote harder
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That shirt is giving big “Fuck Trudeau” vibes. It’s funny how libs who claim to be leftists will cheer on Chinese right wing extremists (Kwon Pyong) just because “China bad”.
Word soup
Your brain is a thinner soup
right wing means things I dont likeoh shid oh fug I misread the comment I thought it was typical liberal accusations of China being right wing 😳 😓
I can see how the phrasing of my comment could be taken that way. Edited for clarity.
Here’s another article that claims him to be a “critic” of the Tiananmen Square “massacre”. A thing that objectively did not happen.
I should learn early 2000s CSS so I, too, can make a website full of fun notions.
More retarded Tankie propaganda. You will never find a legitimate source that backs up your claims.
From the sites “About” page
The second objective is to develop a correct theoretical line in particular… In short: pro-Stalin (against historical nihilism, anarchism, etc.), pro-China (for their chosen road of Reform and Opening Up and against “Maoism” and Sinophobia), and pro-“identity politics” (for a broad understanding of class and against the idealization of “patriotic white workers” as the revolutionary subject, etc.). We consider the populist strategy of courting brittle and ineffective “united fronts” by leaving serious questions of principle unaddressed a mirage.
Westerner genociders: we decide legitimate sources of information for everyone around the world, get in line, untermenschen!
I should learn to read! 😅
Never trust a boater.
Didn’t the US 4th Psyops Group literally admit to organizing Tiananmen Square in their recent recruiting video?
Kk tankie
Kk dronie
Good one
Why didn’t he just take a plane? Just a stupid publicity stunt.
You really didn’t think this one through huh
Maybe you can explain it to me? Nobody else can.
Citizen of dictatorship country criticizes govt with a fucking t-shirt
Is aggressively pursued for beating and jail time
Flees to other country, gets caught anyways by said dictatorship.
Maybe if you weren’t a brain dead tankie troll you’d understand better buddy :)
He wasn’t wanted. He was a free citizen leading a normal life after he was in prison for inciting violence against the government for spreading messages that Xi is equivalent to Hitler and participating in Tienanmen revisionism to glorify that time when students violently attempted to create a counter-revolution and killed 200 soldiers while the US cheered them on hoping for another color revolution.
So after that he decides to pull a publicity stunt that he absolutely didn’t need to do and what he chose to do was flee to South Korea, a US military vassal state that literally just asked the US to station tactical nukes on it.
This guy is as right-wing reactionary as they come.
That’s an awful long winded way of saying he was jailed for wrongthink.
Chinese people don’t have freedom to travel…
Lol what. Jesus man, who told you that?
I lived there and experienced it firsthand. All residents of China must apply to travel within China. These days it’s mostly automated and quick for convenience, but you will be monitored at various checkpoints in the system.
For the most obvious example, you must register with local police within 24 hours of arrival in your destination, a service hotels usually provide free. This means that you must present your travel documents to check in to all hotels. This applies to all people, not only foreign individuals. Moreover, all lodgings are not legally registered to host foreign guests. So there are many hotels that non-Chinese people cannot even stay in.
I hope this helps relieve your incredulity
Nothing you said backs up your original claim. And more importantly, is completely irrelevant.
Lol you lemmygrad people hate hearing from people who have actually lived and worked in China.
If he tried to buy an airplane ticket it’s possible he would have been denied. Riding a jetski across open ocean is pretty dangerous and not preferable. Also, there’s no guarantee that you will be allowed entry to your destination. Risky move all around. Especially because the Korean island of Jeju has visa-free travel for Chinese passport holders. So maybe it was a stunt but… Risky move.
Oh speaking of passports, China stopped issuing new passports in recent years. I am not sure if they started back, but it was definitely an issue during the Shanghai COVID lockdown, as rich Chinese people were trying to leave and lay low elsewhere. It’s possible that the guy’s passport expired and he had no way of traveling by air.
Lol you lemmygrad people hate hearing from people who have actually lived and worked in China.
No it’s very interesting actually, when it’s relevant. You claimed that Chinese people didn’t have freedom of movement, then went rambling on about how Chinese people do have freedom of movement.
If he tried to buy an airplane ticket it’s possible he would have been denied.
You just pulled that out of your ass though, didn’t you?
Riding a jetski across open ocean is pretty dangerous and not preferable.
But it gets you in the news. It was a stupid gimmick and you know it.
So maybe it was a stunt but… Risky move.
So we’re in complete agreement.
China stopped issuing new passports in recent years.
Jesus christ man. Use your brain.
It’s possible that the guy’s passport expired
Pathetic.
I mean, it’s obvious that you have no idea WTF daily life is like in China. I just ran down a list of possibilities and explained how travel works in China and you just posture like a bratty toddler.
Why do you feel a need to knee-jerk glorify and defend a nation-state you’ve never lived in or associated with? I didn’t even badmouth the place, simply described a facet of life in China without hyperbole
Rich boater fucks around, finds out.
😏
Haha apathy about a citizen escaping political persecution
You’re a piece of shit for this comment
Stop believing propaganda lol
“Everything that isn’t my view point is propaganda”
Cool 1984 tactics buddy, propaganda sadly still has a real world definition for which my calling out your apathy to a scenario (fictional or not) is most certainly not l m f a o
I know you feel like you’re right and justified rn (or maybe you’re just another furry avatar troll) but you look like an absolute prick to everyone else.
Look at that fucking jet ski! This is not some poor victim of oppression. This is a wealthy idiot who fucked around and found out.
Suffering is suffering dude… surely someone who’s actually fucking Queer would understand that no?
Or are you that troll I smelt from the beginning. I love our talks.
Okay but I’m literally a communist, like??? Do you think I feel bad for the suffering of wealthy idiots with giant godamn jet skis who declare themselves enemies of communism?
Look. We’re entering the next Cold War, and it’s probably going to go hot this time.
Pick a side, lib.
Capitalists and leninists can both be wrong. I’m fine with small c communism myself. But staunchly opposed to the system lenin created.
Hey you first buddy
Yeah, somehow China brainwashed me from the other side of the world despite not speaking Chinese lol
It is pretty weird tbh
It can’t possibly be that you have been exposed to propaganda from your own country!
What exactly did he find? A country better than china? (china is cringe)(china genocides due to communism)(genocide is an inherent part of communism)
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Eh, kinda yes but really no. Communism always leads to autocracy, which again always leads to genocide. So saying communism doesnt lead to genocide is splitting hairs and doesnt really help with preventing genocides
He found the inside of a jail cell lol
