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I don't think westerners would want to live in a country like China. If that's the case, why don't people just immigrate there?
But people are immigrating over there.
But due to the Soviet Union collapse event, there's still huge skepticism on how well China is performing and how badly the US is performing right now, despite the fact that China is already ahead, widening the gap at an accelerating pace and with no end in sight.
We're going to see a turnaround of events in speed, size and scale like we've never seen before.
Comparing the economies of China and USA is not the same thing as comparing the quality of life for Chinese and US citizens. You are somewhat correct when you say people are immigrating to China, the overwhelming majority going to China are expats. China makes it incredibly difficult to become a permanent resident.
I would say the attractiveness of living in a socialist or even communist country is based on a lack of understanding of what that actually means.
Because uprooting your life and moving to a different country is really hard to do as anybody with even a minimally functioning brain would understand?
"if your country is so bad why don't you move" sorta vibes
but to answer your question, westerners have no idea what china actually is.
We completely agree on that. Westerners cannot conceptualize what China is really like.