Here! Here!
It’s even more night-day in China between the big cities and outside them as it is Liberal-Conservative here in the US between the coasts/major metros and the heartland.
Base survival in the China hinterlands. Corruption is worse. People are a commodity to be used. Freedom is limited.
There are good people in China, of course and the history and base culture is very interesting; but I’m glad I haven’t had to go back in a few years.
I follow a couple of guys on YouTube who have lived in China a decade or more, married Chinese women and one has two kids.
They show the bright lights and fancy parks but they also take to motorcycles and scooters to show the REST of China. They don’t sugarcoat things.
Some of the things they talk about are sickening, like milk dogs, gutter oil, the pollution and the rampant corruption.
They have shown videos of people dining on fine foods and people eating rats just to survive.
They attempt to balance things.
I keep an open mind but the truth is the truth.