kurosawaa @ kurosawaa @lemmy.world

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Listen, I literally lived there for years, I have family there, and I visit all the time. People buy and use Chinese goods every day. Xiaomi smart phones and gadgets are super popular. Chinese phone brands like realme and oppo outcompete local brands. People buy Chinese groceries all the time, especially flavorings and hot sauces. People import Chinese books, watch Tencent TV, and listen to Chinese music. They speak the same language so of course people will buy goods and media content from China.

Even though virtually everyone hates the Chinese government, most people still interact with Chinese people, media, or goods on a daily basis. And this isn't even getting into business supply chains; Taiwan's dirty secret is that most Taiwanese businesses are very pro-China, even though your average person is worried about China having too much influence.

I lived in Taiwan for over 5 years, most people use Chinese products every day. China is their largest trade partner.

The components in those Taiwanese and South Korean products come from China. You can't avoid the world's second largest economy in a globalized world.

Most people start by ending up on the join Lemmy website and are bombarded with info about the fediverse, and the description of each server makes it sound like you can only interact with local commities. If you link someone straight to lemmy.world I imagine they will have no problem signing up.

One of the Chinese word for red panda is literally Firefox, 火狐, that's where the web browsers name comes from.