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Arnaud Bertrand

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Extremely telling that some of the most popular content on Xiaohongshu/REDnote are video of people shopping in Chinese supermarkets.This guy
is buying a trolley-full of fresh food - meat, fish and vegetables - for RMB 160 or about $20 (link to the post:And actually that's comparatively expensive in China: if you want to buy fresh products, you shouldn't go to branded supermarkets (especially foreign brands like Aldi here) but to local producers' markets which are virtually everywhere in China, with prices maybe about half of those in the video (because you cut the middlemen).This is the social media equivalent of this famous Boris Yeltsin video where he goes grocery shopping in the U.S. Except this time around it's Americans experiencing the reverse culture shock, realizing how unaffordable basic necessities have become in their own country compared to China.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1880503864140657080
 
When modern westerners go to China they tend to be blown away by how great the cities and inner city rail are....our cities and increasingly rail too are Sovietish......the breakdown of our cities is well known.....less well known to Americans is how bad European rail has become.....Amtrak has always sucked, and is getting worse.

Its not that it is old....it is bad....a lot of the new trains are worse than the trains of 30 years ago.
 
When I was in Germany a train being more than 3 minutes late was a big deal and almost never happened.....Now being less than 20 minutes late tends to score as a win.
 
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