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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t have much China knowledge but studied abroad in Russia in the 90s.  American kids really need to be schooled on what it means to live in an authoritarian country.  There was a kid on another study program that was writing a paper on something (maybe the Russian black market?) and was thrown out a window.  His family was told he jumped but all of the American students at the time throught he was pretty clearly thrown.  (And I thought of that story each time a Russian oligarch or political operative accidentally fell out a window over the past few years)
 knew a kid that was beaten senseless by a military guy he spoke to disrespectfully.  In retrospect, I did not take it nearly seriously enough.  I got detained once for questioning and was threatened by someone that was trying to extort a bribe that she would call the police on me if I didn’t pay her the bribe she wanted.  As a 20 year old American kid, I really just did not have the experience/respurces to handle myself in that environment.  I was like “you can’t say that to me!”  When of course she could.  
So I’d really make sure he understands what a dictatorship means, not just on an academic/theoretical level, but on what the mindset of people who live under a dictatorship is.  It’s just  totally different way of approaching things in order to be safe.
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