Cottenlai_Zhou [they/them]

Nah, it was a proof of concept that ‘lost’ to regular HSR. The regular metro already does its job, just slower and cheaper. They might do other maglev lines elsewhere but I imagine the Pudong Line will remain mostly just a novelty.

and next time I go back I intend to do the maglev train from Shanghai to… wherever it goes

It goes from the airport to the middle of nowhere, thanks to NIMBYs. It’s basically a rollercoaster.

All good points, I know Uyghurs do face racism in Chinese society, though there’s a big difference between that and extermination. Westerners talk about Xinjiang like it’s a second Holocaust, and I’m pretty sure there weren’t big Jewish celebrities in Germany in 1945.

There are a bunch of Uyghur superstars too but that won’t stop libs talking about genocide.

Lol China doesn’t give the slightest shit about what you say or have said in the past on some western website. Even if they did care, you’re really not improtant enough to be worth the diplomatic incident.

You’re fine, go.

Got nothing else to add that others haven’t except that it’s very weird to refer to world leaders by only their first names.

But, as you said, they go too far.

They don’t “go too far”, they do things outside of their intended ideological character because the liberal showrunners need to make them unsympathetic again.

Are you making a joke or is your pro-car argument sincerely “girls like them more than bikes”?

Is this a bit?

⁹On the rare occasions most people need to carry heavy cargo, they can hire a truck or something.

I ride a bike around my city daily and have never had a puncture.

Sure, riding sucks in some conditions, but the weather is completely rideable 90% of the time. The other 10% I can ride the metro or bus or taxi. Bikes aren’t going to work in every city obviously, but they’ll work well in most.

The conversion doesn’t have to be total anyway. Even if only a quarter of the cars on the road become bikes, that’s a significant improvement for everybody.

Trains can take you most places and busses will take you pretty much anywhere trains don’t. Taxis fill the gap on everything else.

Just go travel somewhere like China or Japan or a lot of Europe and you’ll see for yourself.

landlordism

Was it Khrushchev who Mao took swimming in the Yangtze, knowing he couldn’t swim so he’d have to wear water wings?

You can use alipay and/or wechat pay with foreign cards these days, as far as I know.

Is there a practical reason to count moon phases? Like its not impossible they were just counting the moon for fun but is it not more likely they were keeping track of the days for practical reasons ie. the period hypothesis?

Sounds like this person is from Taiwan

Where do you get that impression from?

China’s really not going to care about some kid chatting shit abroad, I feel like you’ve been reading too much western propaganda.

Don’t waste the MSS’s time.

You’re worried because some rich teenager doesn’t like the government?

A conditional surrender would involve negotiation, obviously.

I never wash my rice

This is just bad cooking