I was in shenzen in 1995, and it looked even worse than that 1980 picture of it. Dirt roads, dusty, dilapidated infrastructure, shoeless children wandering the streets, open sewer pits, etc. Now it makes nyc look like a third word country.
That's because none of the '1980s' shots are from then. Probably taken in the last decade, perhaps even more recently. Many places in China, even in those cities, still look like that today.
I lived in China, loved it, dead impressive development, but this is dishonest propaganda.
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u/Euphoric-Potato-4104 4d ago edited 4d ago
I was in shenzen in 1995, and it looked even worse than that 1980 picture of it. Dirt roads, dusty, dilapidated infrastructure, shoeless children wandering the streets, open sewer pits, etc. Now it makes nyc look like a third word country.