[GingisK]

...it's hard to tell what is real coming out of China and what is agitpop.

Unless, of course, one has direct communications with people living there. I do. They are pretty happy, overall.

[riri]

I should walk some of that back, because they did show video of drives and walks through, what we would consider, normal neighborhoods. Nice would be an understatement.

It was super interesting watching the Chinese youth and American youth interact during the time of the TikTok ban. (Many, many Americans downloaded the Chinese version).