As Elon exhorts, you should visit China No matter your priors: love, hate, admiration, fear There's no doubt China is one of the most important civilizations in the world and it's not going anywhere Now is the best it's ever been to visit, even if you're a skeptic China's soft power is finally working, and it's because it's projecting confidence and opening itself up Previous attempts at propaganda failed cuz they were top-down and kitschy (remember state-sponsored patriotic rap...) Now China has opened up visa-free access unprecedentedly to foreign tourists and is running the "come and see for yourself" strategy, finally making itself "cool" in the way that could only happen from bottoms up interaction People consistently come out with a more respect and admiration towards the country, even the hawks who still view China as the enemy (check out the last Trump delegation) Go for yourself and make up your own mind