Maybe silly but at my Korean classes there’s a seemingly “apolitical” guy working in IT who plans to work in China’s IT sector and we talked a bit about it. Just talked about how it’s exciting but wishes it was less difficult for him to go, that they’re making huge leaps in the IT field etc. Just nice to have a convo about it without Uyghurs or muh political freedoms or whatever coming up.
One of my friends is from Hong Kong and he talks about China like it’s a normal country, how disgusting of him. Wants to go there once to work in IT as well. Or to improve his Kantonese and Mandarin.
On a serious note, many people with non-Western roots think like this. Almost as if Western propaganda is targeted at a certain audience.