Actual permalink to the tweet: https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/940058014886780928

The previous tweets in the thread seem more relevant here:

https://twitter.com/BeijingPalmer/status/940010649010233344

> I'm generally skeptical of anyone who makes a week-long trip to China and comes back awed by 'how advanced they are in X.' In my experience Chinese academics and firms lie their ass off to visitors.

https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/940013406458757120

> Unfortunately...yes. It's economics- photos of "foreigners looking impressed at X" is pretty much a requirement for any sort of fund raising here. Western counterparts have incentive to play along so they can say "the Chinese are beating us at X" and get more funding back home.