@baybal2 E: since your reply is dead (i vouched) >I read a lot of your previous posts. It feels you have zero idea how China works. >You are too young, too si

@baybal2 E: since your reply is dead (i vouched) >I read a lot of your previous posts. It feels you have zero idea how China works. >You are too young, too simple. I've read a lot of your China posts. You do good comment on manufacturing and industry post 2000s. Otherwise, from what I remember about your background, Russia / east Europe, schooling in Canada then work in SZ. It feels like you think your experiences when Russia was failing somehow explains a failing PRC that is mostly succeeding. You may have too much ex-soviet trauma like other east-european diaspora I talk to who try to extrapolate their experiences growing up in broken post soviet states to PRC because "commies bad". I'm pretty sure I'm older than you, lived/worked in PRC before you (90s-10s) and stayed in touch with developments (beijing/shanghai) longer than you. Hardcore commies / regime insiders have been bailing China for comfy life in west since forever. Not the same industries will rejuvenate, things come/go according to industrial policy, but the cycle will continue. Xi killed industry my family was in dead for a few years, it's booming now. While other sectors stay dead. I've hanged with PLA generals, with more stars, and did all the "eye opening" experiences expats brag/allege gives real understanding of PRC. Except it doesn't. I also have family / relationships with PRC nationals who were part of elite patronage networks. Which is every bit as much of a shitshow as you allege, except I also recognize the broader political system largely works and read enough academic literature to have a sense of why. Whereas your recommended literature on understanding PRC at bottom of thread: >The few people remaining brave enough to open their mouth are either from religious cults on one side, or former regime insiders themselves on another. If this is cheek in tongue endorsement of FLG / Guo / other dissident media, then it explains a lot. >diaspora decided to stay in the COVID ridden West, than to return to China. Not for a lack of trying. Flights into PRC was extremely limited on top of quarantine. Most people with means I knew tried to go back, but couldn't due to hassle. Eventually they just waited out for vax.