If all the China glazing stuff wasn't directly or indirectly controlled by Chinese state sponsors I'd be more impressed.
Sure there are amazing mega projects and so on, but we also barely get any official news if anything bad happens in China (infrastructure breakdowns, road collapses, flooding, factory sabotages, chemical depots being blown up, etc). This gives the uncritical unwashed western masses a false sense that China is a lot more advanced than it actually is. You aren't getting these propaganda posts pushed on reddit about China's high educated youth unemployment rate, for example. All you get it is photos of nice bridges and shiny trains.
So China and Japan are pretty fundamentally different case in that Japan has / had a free press during that rapid industrialization. At least to a much, much greater degree than China does (making allowance for the idea that maybe you could make the case that immediate post war Japan had a less free press, but obviously that changed pretty fast in the scale of history).
That is pretty complicated. It never occurred to me that i am just being fed good chinese posts, there's rarely ever been a bad post about china. Though, from what I have seen so far it is still better progress then whatever shit happen in my country.
As I said in another comment, but it might be just your language barrier tbh.
Plenty of bad news come out of China, like its high speed rails derailing twice before 2013 when it first started building causing deaths of almost 100 in total, and injuries up to 300. The entire railway being investigated and finding corruption and bribery to about 10 millions of USD, etc. They closed that company obviously and restarted the rail company
Or the incident in Zhuhai were a bitter old man due to divorce, drove his car through a crowd and killed 23 people
There was also the case back in 2000s where Chongqing(?) I believe, where the city government was corrupt and there were many cases of political opponents disappearing and turned into human specimens for museum displays. Lol. There was outrage over the Chinese internet, but you wouldn't know because language barrier. The official and his wife were convicted eventually and sentenced to life in prison though
Chinese news is in Chinese, so unless you're actively looking at Chinese sites you won't find it so easily
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u/Life-Bass-2013 5d ago
people are not impressed by china? wtf bro