Well, yeah, we’ve (the US) has been doing that the past few years, but we’re certainly not the only ones. In fact, the company my wife just started at sends people to China regularly, and they give everyone they send burner phones.

Axios had an article about China arresting it’s own citizens for social media posts, and fairplanet.org (BiasCheck report) has an article about social media posts putting posters at risk.

Here are a number of articles about foereigner detention in China; I tried to filter out ones which had a less than “mostly factual” rating on BiasCheck.

• Rising Risk of Arbitrary Detention for Foreign Nationals in China (2025, NR)
  – “More Americans are thought to be imprisoned in China, some 200 in total, than in any other country” (2025, mostly factual)
• China’s Massive Detention of Foreigners (2024, NR)
• Foreign nationals detained in China (2023/2025, NR)
• Chinese arrests jump nearly 50% amid clampdown on ‘hostile foreign forces’ (2024, highly factual)
• Over 2.4 million people ‘arrested or prosecuted’ in China last year for national security offences (2024, highly factual)

It’s important to note the CSL classifies criticizing the Chinese government as being a criminal national security offense; for example, the article from FirstPost.com mentions mailings of

journalists, human rights lawyers and activists particularly based on online content they have shared.

Trump is adopting fascist playbooks from current and historic regimes; “fascism” as defined:

A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) 

not as the lazy synonym for “Nazi” which is commonly used. China absolutely is a fascism, as is Russia, and the US is rapidly approaching it.