I lived in China for a little over 2 years until February 2019. I left when my job was put on hold because of the “Wuhan Virus.” I decided to take a trip to Africa to see how many countries I could see until the whole thing blew over. It turns out that you can see 3 countries and then you go into lock down for half a year, it never blows over, and the virus becomes a pandemic. But that’s another story; maybe I’ll blog it as S for South Africa I posted a little about it here.
China is a big country, just 2% shy of the size of the United States (where I’m from), but with almost 11/2 billion people living in it compared to the the 1/3 billion1 population of my country. And there is some disagreement about what “China” actually is. Without getting too political, The People’s Republic of China as it is currently known, has some disagreement with the rest of the world as to what is and isn’t part of it. The word China itself is a word given to it by the West. Some say it’s not a country, it’s a people.
All this is to say that any generalization about China will be wrong. But I am going to do it anyway. What follows is my very opinionated view of China.
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