I honestly agree with the zero case policy, but there has to be a unified rule for everyone to follow!!!!! I can totally feel your frustration.

Sorry to hear about your bad experience. As you said, the issue you came across in Zhangjiajie is definitely not nation wide thingy. It is mostly at some regional and small cities where admin skill of the officials is just low. And they place their own regulations on top of what is passed down from the central government, which is largely not proper or necessary. I still remember your experience in Meizhou, which is very similar.
To avoid travelling to smaller places for now is not a bad idea, although it would be really depending on where you go.

This is nothing compared to what oversea Chinese experience on a daily basis from being living at western countries (i.e. racial discrimination, etc). You should not feel bad at all but instead just talk to some Chinese and ask what kind of treatment they received as foreigners or immigrants from western countries. I must say it's ten times as bad at least, and a lot more frequent, and can be due to any reason not just Covid.

好就是好，不好就是不好！我们要勇于承认错误和不足并改善它，这才是一个社会和一个国家趋于变好变强的必要条件！

What an absolutely awful experience, I don't know how you came through it all quite so unscathed. In all my years in Asia, I've never had quite such a terrible thing happen to me. And it's such a contrast to the perfect China that Daddy wants you to believe in, eh? Good thing you had the presence of mind to inform the officials that you are financed by CGTN, that probably saved you an evening of total misery, being cold and hungry. Still, not as bad as in the West, where you'd probably have been locked up for the night, maybe even shouted at by a cop. And at least it gave you a reason to make another inane video.

Actually you should go back to the UK as the Chinese government will never ever take you as their own people, they not pay you a half penny for your videos either!

你知道，确实有些人会过度的使用他所拥有的那么一点点权力。这件事情在世界各地都是一样的。另外，大城市更加兼容开放，小城市相对薄弱。你之所以后来被允许了，是因为有更高级别的更懂道理的人做了判断。基层管理人员确实会做事比较死板。

这段时间我们这边带星*的都进入不了公共场所，疫情又严重了；疫情期间还是少四处游玩了，会影响很多人。

这就是懒政，有的工作人员每天都要接触大量的人群，处理问题就一刀切。前天我所在的小区开始处于防范区域，需要做核酸，所以早上我就去附近核酸点采样了，中午回来就不给我回小区了，说需要48小时核酸证明，而那时我核酸结果还没出来。。。然后我在外面游荡到晚上才回家。

Empathizing with you Ollie. Hopefully by sharing your experience, you are putting pressure to get more reform implemented to reduce or even eliminate such unethical behavior based on personal biases or prejudice. Communication and understanding can be ways to reform and improvement.

Hi Oli, sorry to hear your experience, but don't let it get to you. Discrimination is a human condition, you'll encounter it wherever you go in the world. I'm an overseas Chinese living in Australia for many years, here I've had people telling me to "go back where you come from". Many times we got picked for random drug swab test at airports, somehow security profiler think we look like drug mules, and we notice the ones they picked are mostly non whites.
When I traveled to smaller towns, if I was the only Asian person around, people will stare at me. The same when I went to some European cities. I can hear people whispering "look…tourists…Japanese? Chinese?" I took a bus in NY once and a woman suddenly grabbed my shoulder just to ask what my ethnicity is, very alarming and unusual, because NY is full of Asian (maybe not in that particular bus?). When you look different from everyone else around you people gonna notice. The Covid situation made it worse. People in big cities & touristy areas have seen many foreigners so they hardly notice anymore, but if you want to explore off the beaten path, get mentally ready. Most of the time people are okay if you're friendly to them, with some exception, of course. Don't stop exploring, you are doing great work, I really enjoy your channel. Cheers!

经典笑话：校长要求明天上午十点全校开会，于是教导主任通知要求九点半全员到齐。然后班主任要求九点大家到齐，最后班长通知学生八点半必须集合。

Oli你好:很感謝你拍這段視頻我是台灣的觀眾一直有關注你和你的父親的影片,很難過你遇到這樣不愉快的經歷.因為這場疫情讓人不能輕忽,這場疫情可說讓全世界的人聞之色變,也破壞了人與人之間的信任,在西方國家更是常有華人或亞裔人士被莫名的攻擊….期待疫情能夠早日止歇,也希望你這次不愉快的經歷不會影響你對中國的觀感,我喜愛中國也很認同中國的防疫!再次謝謝你為我們分享你的影片,期待你的新作

Hi oli, I am sorry to hear what happened to you and your friend, since I am also living abroad I can completely understand your feelings because so many times I got discriminated here in Europe especially unfortunately due to politics difference between China and these European countries and covid firstly detected in China. there was a long period of time some local European people walk away from me immediately because they believe me have covid even I have been living here for almost five years already, however, there's no any single media here in Europe really care about us suffering racism and discrimination I guess mainly due to politically correct, nobody could make our voice heard even some of us tried to contact media, they all refused to report it just simply replied sorry to hear that. As a Chinese national I just wanna thank you for speaking it out to let us understand we still have a lot of places aspects in terms of governance in especially local small places in China. And that's important for us because only we know problems so that we can improve. But again as a Chinese national myself I am sure things will be getting better. And my best wishes to your father a complete recovery and healthy.

中国有很多垃圾人！当时应该打110报警

感同身受，我在国外留学，去年回国的时候，尽管我是中国人，尽管当时已经走完了所有隔离流程，最后的时候还是在火车站被卡了好几个小时，就因为我身份证上的户口所在地有确诊，然而我回国后压根就还没去过那里，我被扣下以后，我一说是从国外回来的，尽管我有所有的手续和证明，他们还是很惊恐的表情，并更加坚定地不放我离开。
现在中国有一部分人，确实对于疫情过于敏感了。我作为一个中国人都不是很理解，更不会要求你去理解了。
但是，因为当下确实疫情控制的很好，这种情况段时间内应该不会被改变，所以我只希望你能单方面的接受这件事，尽管经历过的人都觉得很抓狂hhh。
我这么说只是想告诉你，这些人并不是针对你或者针对外国人或者针对哪一种人。只是在他们的逻辑中认为，你身上所有跟疫情有关联的因素越多，你就越危险。比如你出生的地方（就算这个出生地是中国的某个城市也是如此），尽管你几十年没去过了，但是现在那里有疫情，他们也会对你特殊对待。
不知道这么说明你是否可以理解，同时也希望你不要对中国有过多抵触情绪。
谢谢你的视频，祝你接下来在中国的日子越来越愉快。

As a Chinese, I often encounter this kind of thing, especially when I go to small places

You are completing about China….be happy that you are in Australia you couldn't get in or out for two years even the state's were closed so stop complaining you are a hypocrit in EU we were constantly in lockdown…..

那些扯地方政府为人民负责的都是FP。赤裸裸的区别对待，就不要再拿来美化了。

特权阶级是怎么产生的？这就是最好的样本。当然，现在信息透明，特权阶级收敛了很多，但是老百姓不要指望特权离你远去。希望在中国的外国人尽早的认识到这点，不要盲目的崇拜任何一个国家制度，包括欧美。

即便知道你和其他人都是从深圳而来，而外国人身份比较特殊，当地的执法人员加倍警惕，如不小心他会丢工作，特殊时期特殊对待，希望你不要再抱怨了

越小的城市越死板机械化 大城市还行..我经常出差前连核算都不做 到车站告诉他们我老婆要生了 来不及做核酸…多数人听了都直接放行…但是也遇到过一次 死活不让上车的..没办法 第二天走的

非常抱歉，给您留下这些不好的印象，你的经历非常真实，请把它当成人生阅历的一部分来理解吧。像张家界这类旅游区，在中国其实很多。做为中国人，其实很悲哀的告诉你，在中国去很多旅游区，你都会因为有些人，而感觉吃了一堆的苍蝇。对比，在欧洲旅游，旅游区的人文修养和待客之道，比中国的旅游区好的多了。
疫情下，地方小官员，怕被问责的各种防疫懒政，确实在小地方普遍存在，这也是真实的中国，也是我们自己一直在努力寻求改变地更好的中国。
当然，不可否认的是，西方国家制造的反华浪潮和民粹，在中国社会必然也会引发相应的反弹，在中国的西方人也必须承担西方人所引发的相应敌意。
最后，还是和你说声抱歉，为你在我的祖国遇上的不快。中国还是非常不错的，相信你在平常的生活中，还是能体会到。

That guy was covering his ass, he doesn't want to make decision on his own. And then when his reasons for refusing entry were proved false, he just doubled down on it. I hate those kinds of people especially when they are in public service.

比起中国人在外国受到的不公平，这算什么？？

Sorry to hear that. It sounds really unfair but glad it worked out at last. The example of fear make people doing weird things.

因为前不久张家界刚经历过疫情，有些政策可能过于严苛了，作为张家界本地人也只能深表歉意。希望下次春暖花开、疫情好转，再来一次武陵源吧！

我們澳門人現在到國內旅行也超不方便，那些三四線城巿他們把澳門看成境外高風險地區

你说的是对的，我虽然是中国人但遭到相同待遇，带是我也只能忍了。因为我知道有的人办事就是很机械的，我只能说希望这些办事儿的人以后能越来越灵活。

現在香港非常疫情嚴峻是有人帶菌不正常途徑回中國，所以增加內地感染，好多內地官員問責要辭職，香港官員仍然無人落馬，中國太多人，所以政府一定要嚴禁有任何漏洞，無辦法，因為有1小漏洞不聽話自私人搞到香港現在地埗

How did your display of Westerner’s superiority complex work out for you this time? Modern China will no longer take any abuses from foreign or domestic disobediences. Looked back at the American foreign administration got slapped on his face when he talked down to the Chinese diplomats at the world stage. China is no longer to behave submissively as before when being challenged. Listen and learn! Comply with the regulations when you are told by the Chinese authorities or you may face more embarrassment that you brought on to yourself!

Speaking of discrimination, Chinese even gets bitten up or scolded with vulgarities in UK, it’s just a unhappy encounter only yet you make so much noise, describing yourself like you are ill treated, and all the freedom and convenience that you have enjoyed for past 2years are all because of those strict isolation measure, please comply with the rules or leave!

What's more, depends when this was. If it was within the recent past then surely the point is you guys had been in Wuhan which had four 'medium risk areas'. Where did you get the 星号
Xīng hào? Don't the regulations mean if you have one, you have to quarantine for 14 days? So weren't the officials technically right?

As a Chinese Australian, I have experienced similar discrimination within China. A lot of time, it may seem like discrimination toward you because of who you are, but the truth is they are just taking matter into their own hand and covering their own of ass. In your video the guy whos not letting you into the city was not following covid regulation protocol, he put his personal need before the government regulation, this happened to me before too. The reason I think he picked you and your friend is because foreigner stand out and let just say if there is a covid outbreak in his city, he is going to be the one to be losing the job. From my experiences, if the people are giving your trouble and willing to change their mind later on after some talk, then he is not discriminating you, but rather he is not doing his job properly, and this has happened to me multiple times. In large cities like Beijing, Shanghai, or ShenZhen people follows protocol a lots, however what I have noticed is that in smaller cities or places further out, people often less likely to follow government regulation and often create all sorts of problems, and often backfire on their ass. It can be frustrating at times when thing like this happens, but remember might is right, I know its wrong to think it this way, but lot of times it works. 有的时候，在国内小地方的人真的很烦！特别SB!

Sorry to hear this. At least that person lied about his discrimination, not discriminate you openly to your face. What I have experience in the US, is open discrimination at my work. I am a Chinese teacher, I have been told that only French and Spanish class are running in two sections, and I have enough students to sign up for two sections of class. Imagine that the person told you they only allow Chinese, French and Spanish in, not allow the American and the British in.歧视都是不对的，但起码他歧视外国人还遮遮掩掩，好过他歧视你，让你同伙的法国人进却不让你进，只因为你是英国人。你说是不是。再打个比方，有人偷了你的钱包，与有人当面抢你的钱包，给人的感觉也是不一样的。

目前上海是网格式全市筛查中。对与这次的疫情反扑，的确有人为疏忽管理漏洞导致的。

Every place has some shitty people~~~

这不是很正常的事情？外国游客到任何国家旅游都有可能遇到工作人员的刁难，因为这关乎到国家安全问题。如果你能拿出一些作为媒体工作者认证过的许可或者通行证之类的证明，你可以很轻松的进入允许的场所。

quite happy to see the real negative side of china from your channel. nothing is perfect in our real life. lets keep positive anyway.

First of all, as a Chinese, when I travel in other cities in China, I usually first understand the control methods of the destination city, and even call the local control department in advance, because the control strength of each city is different,
Secondly, I remember in Zhangjiajie that local officials were held accountable because of poor management and control, so some of them liked the one size fits all management. I'm sorry this kind of lazy politics has brought you a lot of inconvenience

去年在河南我也經歷了類似讓人嚴重不適的情況，有的酒店不讓你住，甚至回京要求的核酸檢測當地也不給做，這是一種怕擔責一刀切的懶政行為，應該把你們的經歷發給國家衛健委或者人民日報，國家應該保證外籍港澳台人士在沒有違法和破壞防疫政策下的個人權利，和本地人一視同仁，同時也是保證健康碼綠碼通行的合法性有效性

I’m very sorry for your story. Local police in China often do whatever they feel like.

Come on, take it easy, people are people, everywhere,