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by idiomat9000 288 days ago
No, it is not. It seems that way if you are a (s)expat in the honeymoonphase. Then you learn the language and look into the abyss.

In it families who can not trust one another, hierarchies of incompetence with bribes upon bribes, no legal recourse to anything, a caste system of actual misery and no perspective for that to ever change. And that is peace time. In wartime the ethnic majority progroms and kicks everyone else out of the country.

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Literally none (0%) of this applies to China.

Burma, maybe. But even that's a stretch. You're exaggerating for dramatic or comedic effect, that much is certain.

But have you considered that China Bad?
Spoken like a Han with a good hukou https://archive.is/lRne7
> Literally none (0%) of this applies to China.

Isn't corruption the reason given by Xi Jinping for removing from their position multiple high ranking CCP members, generals, regional representatives and billionaires?