My wife is Chinese. Since information is so censored in China she never got an idea of how "evil" (for lack of better word) the Chinese Communist Party is.
But with all of the flooding in China, she's been shocked by how bad it is in China. The communist party did nothing to help people from stopping the flooding, and then it's been literally hiding the bodies. And then it's been mercilessly cracking down on anyone trying to report about it.
My wife has been hooked on her cellphone for the last week watching all of the news with the shocked expression of "I had no idea it was this bad, i'm ashamed to be Chinese".
Laowhy86: https://youtu.be/XxmKcdrpHB4
87,000 dams in China are not only meant for hydroelectric power but also to control water to other Southeast Asian countries. Water is power in many ways. Now their shoddy workmanship is coming back to haunt them and the Chinese people will pay for it in more ways than one.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-tallest-dams-in-china.html
Yeah, everything is about appearance. China looks like a super power, but there's no sewage, no drainage. Huge building fall apart in a few years, there are blackouts, and none of the plumbing ever works. Everyone seems to be focused on doing the least amount of work possible so they can pocket the difference.
I know an engineer, well accomplished with multiple inventions and patents, who has been doing business and traveling in China off and on for over 30 years. He told me the chinese are very low skilled in anything engineering, says a 2 year US community college student can out perform any experienced chinese, says they are lost. Anything good is stolen. He has 14 cases in litigation around IP and patent infringement.
I joke with my wife about this a lot. "You guys go to school and study from dawn until night, and then you just end up copying us anyways". She's come to realize that Chinese education, is about wasting people's time with busy work to create peons who cannot challenge authority.
Many dams were built under Mao and with no standards. The USSR couldn’t keep up with the west, Reagan’s SDI and broke apart. China will fall under its own weight and corruption and I hope soon for the sake of her people who have never known freedom.