Actually in the USA we have 5x the prison rate of China.
Of course the official rates ignore people in "administrative detention" which is what China does to a lot of its political dissenters. But even if you add those back in, the USA has 4x the detention rate of China. (We are also ahead of every other country in the world.)
It would seem that if you're afraid of landing in prison, the USA is a much worse country to be in than China. Not slightly, much. (And a brief glance at the jail statistics will convince you that our justice system is not color-blind. For instance I've seen no data indicating that drug use rates are significantly different among whites and blacks. But incarceration rates for drugs are very, very different...)
Of course the official rates ignore people in "administrative detention" which is what China does to a lot of its political dissenters. But even if you add those back in, the USA has 4x the detention rate of China. (We are also ahead of every other country in the world.)
It would seem that if you're afraid of landing in prison, the USA is a much worse country to be in than China. Not slightly, much. (And a brief glance at the jail statistics will convince you that our justice system is not color-blind. For instance I've seen no data indicating that drug use rates are significantly different among whites and blacks. But incarceration rates for drugs are very, very different...)