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I know what happens. I put on a bunch of weight, the automatic immigration gate wouldn’t let me through and I got sent to the desk with a person. they told me it was because my face has changed too much grin they made a new picture and I was fine after that.

I lost a bunch of weight recently and while the machines let me in they wouldn’t let me out without going to the big desk again for a new photo.

The real estate market doesn’t account for 30% of the economy. Though I suppose there’s a bunch of way to measure “the economy”.

There is pent up demand for housing yet property marketing is dropping. Actually it may have bottomed out but who knows. Beijing wants to correct it and that’s what’s been happening.

I have property in tier 1 and tier 2, it dropped to pre covid levels. I wasn’t doing property for quick flips but I definitely noticed it.

The scars of covid are everywhere in China just like most countries. its going to take a while for it to recover. just like everywhere else.

China collapse remains a click bait dream for the time being if you ask me.

when measuring centuries a bit of give and take is fine.

It was after all a protracted team effort of subjugation and well, by today’s standards, genocide.

Most nations would be a bit butt hurt about it or at the very least work to prevent it from happening again.

China opened up long before the soviet union collapsed. that’s just wrong.

like 20 years wrong. You really need to do some reading chief.

it’s a thing and kind of rough

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation

Common sense would dictate that we look into the cause of the pandemic. But I totally get the fear of the pointless propaganda war that would have probably come out of it.

It’s beyond belief at this point how much the western press will bend any story about China into China bad.

maybe 40 years ago. but 20 years ago was 2003. China was not like India or Africa is now.

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haven’t been back since I got the Rate limit message.

Sync brought me to reddit. I’ll happily follow sync to lemmy.