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This might just be a weird quirk of my own social group, but that βstraight to jailβ episode of Parks and Rec I think genuinely poisoned people against Venezuela and Iβm halfway convinced it was an op - like literally coordinated with the State Dept or something.
300 million tourists last year is an incredible number
now I want to go to xinjiang
I'd like to visit China but the country is so big and stuffed full of history literally anywhere would be a good spot to visit, I wouldn't know where to start.
Yunnan. Perfect first foray into China.
There, I saved you a tough decision
If I go I'll spend a month over there. It's only a 10 hour ride from Beijing to Kunming via HSR
In my opinion beijing is a bit poo. If you are flying in there, don't stay too long. So much more to see.
I'd much rather visit Chengdu in Sichuan, but I've been wanting to go to Gansu to see the Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park for like around a decade. I think I'll round my future trip to those three provinces if that's feasible.
Edit: and Chongqing too. I want to see the future
Basically every city is the future in China. Chongqing is just very very big and has unusual geography
Iβve read that Chongquing is actually quite shit for a first visit. Itβs foggy and humid all the time and itβs just really confusing/geographically hostile to get around.
Best recs for Yunnan??
Me rn, I want to go next year but there's too much to do
I want to do a proper week-long backpacking trip but idk how to research where those exist, I found the Minya Konka trek in Sichuan but that's about it. That puts me in Chengdu which sounds like an incredible city. Seems like everything in tibet is off-limits to foreigners without a guide? Wish I could find more options in case I'm missing anything
Maybe Yunnan is a solid addition like people are saying. I was already considering it for tiger leaping gorge
kunming hexbear meetup 2026 be there
I love the idea that China is just so evil, so intelligent, so supervillain coded that they can hide something in plain sight from 300 MILLION people coming to see every inch of the city. Only the smoothest of brains could come up with this one.
I just saw a video of ice ghouls kidnapping a family on twitter. Anglosphere can go fuck itself, especially the island anglosphere where they had a "protest" against muslim communities in I think last year?
I just wonder how why we can't take the BBC to court for lying when it was been proven again and again?
is the BBC seriously rehashing this shit again?
Did they not see this side because it doesn't exist in the way bbc reports? Most likely.
300 million people visited and not a single one of them saw it, really makes you think 
Iβd happily flip off the camera with both hands too if it were the BBCβs.
We're definitely not mad our operations to promote instability in the region failed, do NOT put in the papers that we we're mad because we're definitely not
Maybe im severely out of the loop, but I was under the impression there were human rights abuses happening in China against uyghurs. I get that the US and UK claiming China is evil and doing human rights abuses is hypocritical as fuck. Theres definitely a lot of misinformation about it all online.
Surely its possible, if not extremely likely, that China is doing awful shit to minorities in the same fashion that the US, Canada, UK or anyone other world power do all the time.
Im curious why there is an outright denial of it
Because they did not. At best you could claim that they ran abit of a police state, which is inherently abusive, similar to how minorities in American cities are currently treated, but the difference is that China brings in work, and offers free work training with anti-radicalization and Maderain language courses. Not only that, but most of this was at the behest of traditional Uighur community leaders, whose institutions were the primary targets of radical Wahabi terror bombings. The target wasn't Uighurs or Muslims, but the specifically radicalized ideology coming out of Saudi Arabian funded Afghanistan/Pakistan groups.
Not only that, but the height of these programs was in 2012-2018, with the U.S. 'reporting' on it starting in earnest after the programs had already began to spool down. Reporting on it now is quite literally pulling a KONY2012.
Mainly because it's just allegations without evidence and circular reporting all the way down. You're looking at anti-China propaganda, funded to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars every few years by the anglo-American governments and arms industries. BBC is one of the main offenders in terms of pumping out these allegations as fact. It's state media and the British government wants its subservient China back.


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