Quality_Fun

i'll be flying to china in november, and there are some things i'd like to know beforehand.

• will i be able to access the websites and apps i currently use? i use the free version of protonvpn if necessary. will it be enough?

• will the average person understand enough english to hold a basic conversation? i speak some mandarin, but i don't consider myself fluent in it.

• i can only recognize a few hundred characters and words and can handwrite even less, so how will this affect my experience?

• what is the traffic like?

• anything else i should know?

thank you. despite these concerns, i am genuinely looking forward to my trip.

i've been hearing more and more of this collapse narrative, which got me wondering why it started up again.

i recently had a conversation with a user who said that there is indeed some amount of this supremacy and that chinese ethnic minorities do suffer hardships and discrimination. while i never thought otherwise, i want to know exactly how bad things actually are and if they can be improved.

https://reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/slvq41/im_a_commie_myself_but_wtf_is_this_like_even/hvuaiou/

these are all problems china is said to have. how serious are they, what problems would manifest as a result of them, and is there anything the government can do to address these? and if it can't, then what would china look like a few decades from now?

i was reading a thread about the pla, and a conversation about its supposed new hypersonic missile caught my attention because one user really seemed to understand what i and i'm sure many users here have noticed ourselves: that for whatever reasons, the threat of china is simultaneously seen as strong and weak, and that the west will always be technologically superior to it. i like to call this schrodinger's china, which i've also seen others use. as for why? well, the reason probably starts with an r.

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What I have always find interesting is that there seems to be a "psychological" blo

i've often heard that once the prc's economy is large and strong enough, the roc would eventually willingly join. i haven't been convinced. the trend has been just the opposite - as the prc's economy has grown, the roc has become more and more pro-independence than ever before.

u/WheelCee summed it up in a comment, which i will share here.

I want to dispel this notion of "economic reunification". There is no possibility of reunification with Taiwan without force, or at least the threat of force. None. Let that sink in.

There is a common belief that as China grows in economic power, the people of Taiwan will just voluntarily want to reunify with their motherland. What does the evi