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China Poised to Become Top Tourism Economy as Foreigners Skip US (www.bloomberg.com)

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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.

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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

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.