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deoh Incazz
December 12, 2018 at 12:38 pm
Yes I hope all these Chinese leave Europe and go back to their dictatorship and never come back. We do not want them there. Also they have to realize China is not safe too. people get stabbed every day, this year two genocides of primary school kids in China, but the black fake media do not report this because they have to show that everything is safe in the land of now law!
Markus
December 12, 2018 at 1:54 pm
the difference between (Western) Europe and China is not as much the absolute value of safety, but the gradient: in China things are indeed improving, here in Europe things have been detoriating rapidly with the last three years!
Apart from that: here in Germany we have also stabbings, rapes, assaults and muggings committed by so-called “refugees” (not to be mixed with real refugees) on a daily basis, and the mass media is reluctant to report without bias…
All over all things look very much at par now, but when extrapolating the outlook for Europe is bad! And right now there is very little change in politics which implies the needed changes to take place in the near future…
Gi To
December 12, 2018 at 3:09 pm
The last couple of years there has been 100 of thousands immigrants to western europe from muslim countries. For years there has been increasing crimes from muslim immigrants.
There are problems but I do not think it is less safe to get to Europe and study. You need to get information from students in the city where you want to study and they will tell you more about the safety in the city and in the country where you want to study for some time.