In a recent video on Twitter, he compared the China of today to 2019 and was completely shocked at the speed to progress and change. Says it’s like stepping into the future.
1 - Automation: From trains to taxis to purchases - everything is done seamlessly with super Apple Pay.
2 - EV: 30%-40% of the cars are fully electric. You can get Teslas but you have Chinese brands that offer sedans for $10k.
3 - The air is much cleaner. Partly due to EVs.
4 - People are more respectful of societal norms. There is better service everywhere you go.
5 - Less foreigners, even in touristy areas. Most white people are actually Russian.
6 - In factories, robots do the work in contrast to the perception people have in the US of China just throwing cheap labor at every problem. Factories set up their own e-commerce platforms and sell directly on China’s TikTok.
7 - It feels like over the past 5 years, everything by in China just got better, while everything in the US just got worse.
r/china sexpats tend to enjoy bonding over the shared trauma of getting explosive diarrhea after overexposure to non-mayo substances, it’s something of a tradition in white people social bubbles in china
Different gut biome, it takes a while to line up
The first time I went to Mexico all the
stories had me thinking that I was going to shit my guts out. I ate nothing but street food the entire time and never had any issues. I don’t buy the “gut biome” explanation there’s gotta be something wrong with them.
Fact: there’s a 100 percent crossover between the diaper fetish subreddit and the China subreddit. Source: my heart, which is always right.