The 'new China' in Thailand: ‘if you want hope, you have to leave’ (youtube.com)
Like Westerners, leaving strong economies for more pleasant lifestyles. Prosperity lost its appeal? or is it just already checked off? In China, doing the types of things they're doing in Chiang Mai would be ‘harder, there’s a lot of regulations' and competition. Seeing so many people who own way way less than her, but being so much happier. In CM there are some shops and places mainly for Chinese, like a Chinese bookstore, where they sell books on Chinese feminism, the Tienmen Square protests, etc, things that can't be talked about in China, meeting place for likeminded people, it's hard to gather as people in China, subject to strict surveillance. Chinese artists that feel unsafe working in China. One mature man who quit his official job in China said ‘We were once filled with hope, and a generation of people made great sacrifices and effort, but ultimately failed. In the coming era, the youth will lose their jobs, there will be an existential crisis. This will include their rights as human beings being reduced little by little.'
‘Chinese artists can be divided into traditional artists and real artists. Real artists are artists with an international vision, who do not care which materials or languages they use. If you just paint pretty pictures, those people just use their art to flatter dictators and tyrants. They are tools, not people, and even less artists.’
‘I don’t dare say anything about China, so let's talk about North Korea. It's not possible for North Korea to produce a single artist. North Korea cannt have entrepreneurs, mathmeticians, writers, thinkers, philosophers, it is impossible. That is a unique kind of slave society.' You must just leave as soon as you have some money.
'Only those who can afford to are relocating to Thailand.'
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