[carabiner]

China doesn't have good Mexican food. But they really are a remarkable country. Building high speed rail over their entire country in a few years, shiny new hospitals in days during a pandemic. Sometimes I wish they would occupy California and shut down our racist concentration camps (sorry, for-profit prisons), then ship the homeless to dorms in the Central Valley. Of course, they would also build out our high speed rail in a couple of weeks, just as they are modernizing Africa (rather than dropping "aid" like Americans).

[dirtyid]

Sadly, most countries don't have good Mexican food. Pet theory is easy for undocumented/labour Mexicans to sneak into US who absorbs 98% of the diasphora. Rest of world has dearth of Mexicans who opens restaurants because that's not a skill set they look for in economic migrants. Lucky to have some good Mexican joints in major Canadian city, but most places don't. That extra border hop filters out a lot.

[gibb0n]

Yeah I feel you, I'm in Australia and it ain't great. Tex Mex

[unmole]

> Building high speed rail over their entire country in a few years

Ah, the high speed rail network to podunk provincial towns where nobody can actually afford the fares. Built by taking on insane levels of debt which will hobble China Railway for decades to come.

> shiny new hospitals in days during a pandemic

And yet keep imposing lockdowns while the rest of the world has limped back to normal. All the while pushing inferior vaccines and ineffective cures.

Do you understand how bad the healthcare system in China is? Even highly paid software engineers have to resort to smuggling medicines from India because of the absurd costs at home. I know because I personally helped my colleagues procure anti-cancer drugs.

> then ship the homeless to dorms

I think the preferred term is reeducation camps.

> just as they are modernizing Africa

By building white elephant projects and leaving them with unsustainable levels of debt. Do you see a pattern?