I think it's accurate to say that if the Chinese government thought techno music represented a threat to their continued control of China, techno DJs would not be allowed in.
Personally, I work with a lot of Chinese people, and have friends working in China, and as with the USA, it's important to distinguish between the people and the government. I think it's great there's enough of a scene in Shanghai -- expat or not -- that they can fly Bone in. I'm a lot more concerned about the ever-tightening death-embrace that the USA and China are in -- they loan us money, we buy their products, and because of this two-way economic leverage, the US has no leverage over China politically. Keep in mind that the ongoing genocide in Sudan continues to be possible in large part because China is buying oil from the Sudanese government -- any other country's sanctions on Sudan mean little when China floods Sudan with hard currency.
