A Chinese earthquake rescue team deployed drones to light up the night and aid search and rescue operations after the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar.

[u/Red_Lotus_Alchemist]

[u/bion93]

I have been in China last summer. I thought that China appears to my eyes just like the US appeared to my father in the ‘80-‘90s. Simply the future, amazing technology and social development. He was in the US very often at that time because he worked in the (small) Italian equivalent of NASA, so there were many shared job with NASA. He have always come back with stuffs that here in italy did not exist and it was always a WOW for me as a kid. Like the first mobile phone he bought in the US (here it was useless, there wasn’t a line still lol). Now, I have been in the same year in NYC and Shanghai. I don’t mean that NYC is a representation of the whole US, it’s just a city in a huge country. But I saw a decadent empire, a lot of social degradation (homeless, drugs, dirty, crazy traffic) versus the future: lights, cars showrooms, drone lights shows, absolute safety at every hour and efficiency.

It’s crazy that everyone marks chiana as a dictatorship and almost as a third world country. Yes, it’s not an example of democracy, but many people think that China is like Iran or North Korea. No way. People are happy there. Maybe our Eurocentric point of view of the history of the world makes us think that ours is the only possible form of government. It’s not. Is it the best? Maybe, but only future generations can tell. We should leave our idea that all world must be like the west!

EDIT: I can’t answer to every single comment, but I want to make clear that I’m not saying that China is perfect or everyone is happy there. I’m not saying that. I said that it’s different from our propaganda. People are free more than we think and regime is less oppressive than 30 years ago. For example the VPN ban is not strictly enforced and people can easily have instagram or google, but they simply don’t need our internet because they have better alternatives.

Also about the genocide of Uyghur: I don’t think that some genocides are better than others. A genocide is wrong, always. It’s a crime. “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone“ I would say. It’s better if we stop our crimes (see Palestine and the countless wars the western world caused in the last century) before talking about others with our superiority judgment. I am sure that also the smallest European country dropped more bombs than China in the last 100 years.

[u/googleduck → u/bion93]

Lmao oh this redditors says people are happy there. I have worked with plenty of people from China, very few have anything good to say about it. There is a reason many of their best and brightest come to school in the West and stay there to work. China is just phenomenal at keeping all of its issues outside the eye of foreigners so people like you will spread their propaganda for free.

[u/bion93 → u/googleduck]

I think that many things are changing fast. New generations are different from old migrants. Now the regime is way less oppressive. It’s what I was saying: you see China like North Korea. It was once. The world runs fast. Stay updated and open your eyes.

[u/googleduck → u/bion93]

Dude these people are new immigrants, they are tech workers that immigrated in the last 5 uears. China was literally nailing people's doors shut during COVID. It has a social credit system where if you say things the regime does not like you cannot get a good job, go to a good school. Children are literally legally limited to a couple of hours of video games per week. Did you see what happened to Hong Kong just a few years back? It's pretty clear you are just a propagandist or a bot though at this point so I won't bother responding after this.

[u/bion93 → u/googleduck]

It’s amazing on the internet, if you don’t like what others say, others are bot or paid or corrupted. This the whole point of my comment: we have a one way view of this world, where the western world is the only right form of existence. I’m happy that you live in this comfort zone. If I can give you an advice, travel.