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I have seen videos about how they have invested in their cities and public transit and the cheap futuristic cars and rich cousine the people make in China itself. But from I understand now their education system is kind of useless with their entry test forcing people into a certain career they don't want, so companies hire more on likeability, queer rights is horrible, women's rights are behind and while it isn't quite dystopian people are scared to say anything that offends the government. And everyone knows they have the most invasive privacy system, they will even use it for things like knowing automatically that you paid for a train ticket wheb you walk in so it feels like a plus as long as you're a good citizen. The cost of living compared to wages is definitely lower there right now though, but I don't think I would ever move to China. Honestly, almost anywhere looks better than the US in the 2020's. I think Mexico looks better in most places. Europe looks so so much better.
People in China definitely don't live scared to criticise the government, I've had plenty of Chinese exchange students and discussed openly politics with them and they have no problem doing so. In fact, people in China have a much better opinion of their system of governance than we do anywhere in the west:
Queer rights need improving but are not horrible, people are free to have a relationship with whomever they want (though older generations may not understand it and may show prejudice), and there are even well-known "gay hubs" like Chengdu, where you can find plenty of overtly gay clubs, and there's increasing homosexual representation in media. The laws need to catch up, but the country has developed a lot faster economically than it's realistic to change culturally, and thankfully China has no threat of a right wing party taking away the rights once they're earned!
You're giving a botched description of the western media-manufactured conspiracy theory of the "social credit score". Much in the same way that a criminal in Europe pending trial wouldn't be allowed to board a plane, this applies to China in long distance trains, simple as that. I'm a Spaniard with a thick beard and face recognition didn't work on me when I visited China (lmao), and it was never a problem because there are always helpful workers as an alternative.
Unfortunately, not most of Europe, you're probably referring only to a few Nordic countries and possibly France or Germany, where wages are decent for highly trained workers. I'm living in Spain, and my friends with PhDs can't afford to get into a mortgage, and everywhere in Europe there is continuous degradation of the welfare state thanks to neoliberalism imposed by the EU, and now it's threatened even more due to far right parties rising because of the 20 years of economic decay without an end in sight + capitalist media conglomerates.
That's true. There's a lot of discrimination but I wouldn't say that the government is to blame here. There's this internet meme that goes "if you dont do xxx you are gay" and gay here supposed to be a negative word. This isn't just some homophobic people's thing, it's young people's common language that's pretty widespread.
Social credit scores don't exist, but the privacy system is invasive. Literally all social medias and games are required to have ID verification. The first thing that appears after you have logged to most (if not all) online mobile app (for games, even offline ones) available legally through ways that the government expects (like app stores) is an ID verification popup requiring real name and ID. For games they are legally required to limit children's game times during weekdays and all nights. It isn't even effective as most children just input their parents' ids. At the cost of the whole nation's onlined, socialable people's anonymities. Its really painful because WeChat is on the list of verification demanding apps, and people cannot live without wechat.