cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/62620960
The Chinese travel and tourism economy grew 9.9% last year, more than twice the global rate and much faster than the 0.9% pace registered by the US, according to new data by the World Travel & Tourism Council, a trade group, and lead research partner Chase Travel.
Ironically I think that about China. I could still say “Fuck the US and Trump” here relatively easily. If were to say “Fuck China and Xi” there’s a relatively good chance I could get disappeared.
I’d love to go back to Hong Kong for example, it’s one of my favorite places in the world, but after what happened there, frankly I’m afraid unless I was on my absolute best behavior.
What behavior exactly are you thinking you’ll do that you’ll get disappeared for? Sometimes when I’m having spicy conversations, Chinese people will use my non-chinese phone for translation instead of their own, or move the conversation to whatsapp instead of wechat (you can send whatsapp apk via wechat lol), but the level of concern was more like fear of getting seriously inconvenienced than disappeared.
There’s different conversations you have in different contexts.
No thanks, I don’t want to deal with that type of shit at all. I’m not going to be visiting the US or China because of that, I’d rather go chill in Taiwan.
Taiwan is cool, but you’re comparing Hawaii to the entirety of mainland US and Alaska, if Hawaii had sone strange history.
I don’t think Hawaii is really analogous but I get your point. I’d still rather chill in. Taiwan though even if it’s significantly smaller.
It’s not a perfect analog, but I mean it’s still 1 place, whereas mainland China is a million diverse places.
Comparing Iceland to the entirety of Europe would fit too. It’s an interesting place, but if someone said they would rather go to Iceland than an entire continent, you’d assume either the person saying it was a huge fan of something that existed only in iceland, or didn’t understand the scale and diversity of the places they’re talking about.
Not necessarily, there are different types of travellers. Some people like packing many destinations into a short time and some prefer to spend more time on one place. We’re pretty far off the original topic now though because not visiting China has nothing to do with the diversity or size of it but because the CCP is an authoritarian regime who can go fuck themselves. I’d like to go back to Europe sometime though.