>>2807525
no america rip, as well as a few other countries i think
feel like china's kinda past its peak tho
first been there as a boy in 2011, last in 2018, and i can definitely see the changes, whether for better or for worse
probably changed much more since then, with an intervening global pandemic and all that
china in 2011 was wild, like you didn't even have to wear a seatbelt in a car etc. shanghai still felt futuristic, but it sort of had this frutiger aero optimistic future thing going on, especially with the expo having happened a year ago. and other cities sort of saw the same thing, even the lower tier ones
e.g. back then there were still old village districts, where you could get skeevy street food and stuff, many of which have now been razed or "renovated" (gentrified, in our terms)
nowadays there are a lot more malls and everything is more sterile
>>2807525
agree that SEA can often feel like "china X years ago", especially southern china
