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Traveling to China in 2024
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this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2023
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Exciting, any idea where you'll go?
My generic advice is to setup WeChat and Alipay payment systems. Everything runs off of one of those apps, and it'll make your travels much easier.
I'm really interested in using the high speed rail, lol. I'd like to see the wall and other major attractions, but I also have a deep desire to see both the urban and rural areas because I know both are beautiful in that country. I want to talk to people as much as possible but having a hard time learning Mandarin so I might need to find a guide.
Ahh, is WeChat like snapchat here in the US? In terms of being super common
WeChat doesn't have an equivalent in the US. Everyone in China uses it, even old people. On the surface it's a chat app but it's also integrated with payment systems and mini apps. It's very common for a restaurant menu to just be a WeChat mini-app, I think even customs does their border forms via WeChat.
HSR between Shanghai and Beijing is a good call most of the time, only 4 hours and a well travelled route with frequent service. Helps that both cities are very much worth seeing.
Wait that's way cooler lmao
But yesss and I'm sure the view on the way is lit as fuck also going 250mph in a train is just so dope to me, I have literally never used good public transportation in the US (shitty subway in NYC/Chicago, but the shit is ghetto asl and dirty)
This probably a pipe dream but are there any known spots that Chinese politicians hang out at? I know there's like 90 million in the CPC, but I had a dream where I met Xi once and obviously that means I'm going to run into him when I'm there xd
No it doesn't matter that the country has 1.5 billion, I WILL be meeting Mr. Head of Modern Socialism Xi whether you dirty tankies like it or not
Fr though, that’s probably the only way you’ll get a conversation about Marxism and communism.
The majority of the Chinese aren’t all that knowledgeable about it unless they pursue politics as a career. Some older people might have traces of MZD thought, but it’s not really a thing.
To be fair, a lot of what we’re learning here is revolutionary theory. It’s theory, when applied, would lead to a revolution.
China’s already had their revolution. They don’t need to know how to start another one. They need to know how to protect itself from imperialism while advancing socialism. (Because it’s a third world country) One element of which is to be nationalistic, but in moderation.
If a revolution is to succeed in NA or the EU, we would have to take a different approach, as they are mainly first world countries. Nationalism in this context means to advance imperialism rather than to resist imperialism.