>>214606100
>People have now started to talk about China not as if it's a developing country (which is what they themselves claim to be), but the same way that people were talking about Japan in the 1980s
wtf are you talking about
It's a set dichotomy that seems to fall along political lines here where libs love China and think it's epic sauce for their density, insane public transport infrastructure, and futuristic skylines, or they say it's a disgusting fucking shithole 2 weeks from collapse with dilapidated dogshit buildings and dog-eating, degenerate freaks populating the streets
I definitely don't think people glaze it in the way people glazed 80's Japan though. I remember my dad telling me about visiting Japan in the 80's and talking about salarymen waving bundle of cash to call a cab, how it was insanely futuristic for the time, how people only wanted Japanese cars, how Hawaii was going to only be populated by Japanese summer homes, how people actually feared it was going to overtake the US any day. I don't think it's that similar. There's more fear and skepticism of China since they're an adversary and also a lot of doubt in the feasibility of their sustained growth, especially with the demographic info we have now relative to Japan in the 80's.