Gucci_Minh [he/him]
His character arc from Hillary stan to decently principled socdem is actually pretty impressive
Can’t go back to China right now because of Corona travel restrictions but I still keep in touch with family. Most of them live in tier 2/3 cities so life is pretty good and “normal”. Some are still farmers though and they’ve seen the biggest improvements over the past 30 years where in the 90s they were in small dingy brick huts with 2 rooms and now they have a state provided apartment and a cheap utility van (Wuling is pretty much a meme at this point but hey it’s cheap and it hauls produce).
I’ve seen an increase in disillusionment with the America worshipping where going abroad to study or work was the thing to do but now at least with the talks I’ve had with my own extended family that interest has died down a lot. The mass media in China has also become more patriotic and overtly communist (e.g. Korean war and Taiwan reunification focus, increasing coverage on CPC projects) which probably has something to do with it.
As for COVID, yeah it’s business as usual. Affected regions get locked down and tested hard, not uncommon to have the entire population of a county tested 5 times in 2 weeks. But then once shit calms down people can go outside again and do normal people things, which is a luxury I haven’t had in a while.
If foreigners are planning to visit (once restrictions are lifted) I’d still recommend staying in tier 1/2 cities and the touristy places because I think a lot of first world citizens get really shocked when they see a developing country doing development and it sort of breaks their brains that they have to squat to shit (srsly how are y’all such weak squatters it’s really not that hard) or sometimes experience environments that aren’t perfectly sterile and geared towards utility over comfort.
Shuli Ren
Anyone with a Chinese sounding name writing columns for western propaganda outlets is either:
- Brainwashed west worshipping lib who thinks if they act white enough they can be honorary whites too
or
- Falungong/Falungong adjacent CIA plant
Beware of the Boba amerikkkans, and don’t listen to anyone Mao would have dunce capped.
If I had a sufficiently powerful laser I could point it at one of the retroreflectors they put up there and get a reflection back, there is actual proof, and the fact that the Soviets even acknowledged it says a lot about its veracity. Do you think that just because some of the stuff that the US says is true that I’m to take the other things at face value without proof? If NBC cites CBS cites AP cites Reuters cites CBS cites NBC… am I supposed to just be like oh well there’s a lot of citations so clearly it must be true? Please try to challenge this “west good by default” mindset that you have, it clouds your judgment.