There are a few low-key disgruntled ex-pat forums around that give some interesting and hilarious on the ground anecdotes about stuff that goes on in China. It

There are a few low-key disgruntled ex-pat forums around that give some interesting and hilarious on the ground anecdotes about stuff that goes on in China. It's a billion people though, so who knows. Based on my totally ridiculously uniformed foreigner viewpoint, they don't have the kind of societal narrative distribution like they do here in the west. The official one is patriotic and contrived, and it doesn't go very deep. There's not that progressive push to change the country in one direction or another through influence and advocacy that seems ever present in the west. People are pretty much focused on what's right in front of them and that's it.