Most people who did business with China from the 2000's on who aren't NGO plants generally like Xi, because he made things way easier for American businesses and consultants by reducing local corruption. Also, many if them saw the infrastructure reforms occur in real time while things sat at a stand still in the U.S.
My father remembers going to Dongguan when it was mostly fields and then going back every two years over a decade and every time the entire city looked different, either new roads, new buildings, new train lines, new airports, etc. It will definitely become difficult when they have to start tearing stuff down, but I am hoping they are working on that.
While living in South Korea I knew people who had done business with China. To this day, I have never heard a South Korean say anything positive about China, although this may have been because I was a lib when I lived there. I once even overheard a conversation in a restaurant among Korean boomers talking about “중국놈,” an aggressively rude way of referring to Chinese people. And, meanwhile, every Chinese person I met in Korea was nice and smart, although now I strongly suspect them of being libs. One admitted to me that she thought Tibet should be free; another was the son of a banker. But they were still both just very pleasant people to be around.
South Koreans had their own boom around the same time, so they think that it is because of capitalism and the 'unique character of the Korean people' (racism) that they are successful, not because they also used a planned economic model which leveraged their close relationship with the U.S., like Japan, however they were willing to export their manufacturing capabilities like the U.S, unlike Japan.
Korea is weird because I want to like them, but South Koreans are just such assholes to everybody, especially in the eSports scene. I would guess their lower end working class is probably fine, I just never interact with them.
There is a lot of cool stuff that happens there but it mostly isn't reported in the corporate media. A majority of the people in the south support the DPRK and they do all kinds of cool strike action all the time. Out of all the imperial core countries, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Greece seem the likeliest to fall to communism within our lifetimes, but South Korea might not be far behind. That being said, they tend to be remarkably aggressive g*mers.
Most people who did business with China from the 2000's on who aren't NGO plants generally like Xi, because he made things way easier for American businesses and consultants by reducing local corruption. Also, many if them saw the infrastructure reforms occur in real time while things sat at a stand still in the U.S.
My father remembers going to Dongguan when it was mostly fields and then going back every two years over a decade and every time the entire city looked different, either new roads, new buildings, new train lines, new airports, etc. It will definitely become difficult when they have to start tearing stuff down, but I am hoping they are working on that.
While living in South Korea I knew people who had done business with China. To this day, I have never heard a South Korean say anything positive about China, although this may have been because I was a lib when I lived there. I once even overheard a conversation in a restaurant among Korean boomers talking about “중국놈,” an aggressively rude way of referring to Chinese people. And, meanwhile, every Chinese person I met in Korea was nice and smart, although now I strongly suspect them of being libs. One admitted to me that she thought Tibet should be free; another was the son of a banker. But they were still both just very pleasant people to be around.
South Koreans had their own boom around the same time, so they think that it is because of capitalism and the 'unique character of the Korean people' (racism) that they are successful, not because they also used a planned economic model which leveraged their close relationship with the U.S., like Japan, however they were willing to export their manufacturing capabilities like the U.S, unlike Japan.
Korea is weird because I want to like them, but South Koreans are just such assholes to everybody, especially in the eSports scene. I would guess their lower end working class is probably fine, I just never interact with them.
There is a lot of cool stuff that happens there but it mostly isn't reported in the corporate media. A majority of the people in the south support the DPRK and they do all kinds of cool strike action all the time. Out of all the imperial core countries, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Greece seem the likeliest to fall to communism within our lifetimes, but South Korea might not be far behind. That being said, they tend to be remarkably aggressive g*mers.
Good to know!