Comment by itchyouch

As an East Asian, not really trying to argue that China hasn’t accomplished great things.

While I can’t speak directly to this, but from watching The China Show on YouTube, the tradeoff to the amazing amenities is that the personal-injury risk from failing infrastructure has been fatal, but covered up by their propaganda. Anyone on the receiving end of it, will deal with devastating consequences, if not fatal.

Infrastructure and manufacturing corners are cut in ways that look great, but literally kill their population and tourists.

Building foundations are not thick enough, buildings aren’t built to proper fire safety standards, underground pipes leak, leading to roads constantly failing, high rises burn down, sewage pipes literally blow up due to methane build up like someone detonated a bomb.

Drainage grates are fake and flooding cities, drowning people in vehicles, while the QA of car battery manufacturing is causing electric fleets of cars in parking lots to burn.

And the aforementioned occurrences are happening in tier1 cities.

I sound hyperbolic, but China is great at quickly cleaning up and quickly rebuilding, so it doesn’t seem nearly as bad as it does.

Once I learned about the infrastructure, I realized my cousin’s business trip accident in China was not a randomly rare accident.

He broke his back in China when his rental car’s front wheel popped off the car.

Chances are most folks are fine if they go. But I would be very weary, because the probability of a disaster is not nearly as high as it ought to be.