>I’ve been to impoverished areas of China and it was safer than any place in the US for example. I've read of accounts by two different Western women who hitch

>I’ve been to impoverished areas of China and it was safer than any place in the US for example. I've read of accounts by two different Western women who hitchhiked alone across China in perfect safety. One cannot imagine this happening in any other BRICS country except maybe parts of pre-Ukraine War Russia.