"We don't have many of them where I'm from either. They're on the mainland."

For all her patriotism as a kid, she doubts that there are too many real communists in her country.

"They're..." She bites her lip. They're bad, they're evil, they're saboteurs... That's what people like Instructor Bai say. But she's never learned too much else about them. "The people who live on the mainland. A lot of the people in my country used to live there, but they chased us off. You've really never heard of them?"