I've been to China and before entering the country I was hugely critical of all the things we read on our mainstream media. However, after spending time travelling through large parts of China I'm on the opposite side now. People in China are so calm, so polite and helpful. Their streets are extremely quiet because there is not a single motorized two wheel vehicle. Even though it is a 1.4 billion nation, the largest on the planet, people live comfortable lives, they have space and time to recreate together (you literally see people exercise before and after work everywhere) and most importantly the nation is not divided. Yes, they have problems and not everything is perfect, but heck, they are 1.4 billion people and their president is not Trump, they don't hate each other and nobody shoots children in schools, people don't spend all day on Twitter to kill each other and nobody gets publicly shamed for a small mistake. Their problems in relation to their size are literally peanuts. Maybe democracy and freedom the way we know in the Western world is not that great for everyone after all. They are in a unique position and China is doing pretty well, so whatever they do which makes you think is bad, it seems to work for them better than for the US.

On one hand we read how foreign nations manipulate and taint the minds of our people through social media and that we drown in fake news, biased one sided reporting and an agressive ad driven consumerism which makes us vulnerable, but on the other hand we are critical of a nation which basically says no to this through censorship. Maybe the only way to keep 1.4 billion people at peace is through censorship, who knows? We only have one country to measure this experiment and they seem to be doing fine, right?

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Lol, lots of people saying I was in China only for a day or what not and pointing out all the problems the country had to justify their criticism. I don't say they don't have problems, I'm saying their problems in relation to their unique size are actually not that big. The US has also lotsbof big problems, 100s of years of slavery, Vietnam war, Iraq war, killing lots of innocent people for no reason, Guantanamo bay, torture, etc

Yes, China is not a role model in human rights when you look at their history, but please save your poor criticism if you can't honestly compare two things without national pride and bias.