the US, english-speaking media tends to only point out extremely good, and extreme bad things about china.

this paints a really extreme (go figure) picture of china. some people think it's the most amazing place on earth and some people think it's some kind of post apocalyptic hellscape.

as always, the truth can be found by actually going there, something most people with very strong opinions about china have never done and probably never will do, in all likelihood