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Extended family does not seem to matter. The brother of one of the top leaders of the party (Yu Zhengsheng) has defected to the US long before Yu being elected into PBSC (Politburo Standing Committee), the board of directors for China inc.

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Indeed. For all of modern Communist China's problems, taking revenge on family members isn't known to be one of them. They focus on a individual's own loyalty to the state and whoever holds power. As is to be expected, as part of the point of Communism is to destroy the family unit and replace it with the state. This is different from, for example, Japan, where their are explicit laws mandating familial responsibility for (adult, not only juvenile) relatives.

Wow, you started great there and then went off the rails. Why does everybody bring grade-school lessons about Russian communism to the current Chinese situation? The cultural revolution ended a long time ago and they're not proud of it.

Chinese society is extremely family-oriented. Xi Jinping has been much more aggressive with government power than his immediate predecessors, but his biggest themes are conservative and traditional. Lots of taoism and confucius.

I'd posit that their government doesn't go after (han chinese) families because it turns one dissident into 50.

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