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Despite the title, the video isn't actually about how cheap the country is and how cool that is for tourists. This YouTuber is best known for traveling all over China on a motorbike and showing what life is like for locals, highlighting the unique parts of their culture, etc. She talks with folks about the sanctions that cause their economic situation. Recommend this video and her entire channel.

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[โ€“] kristina@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure she's a communist party member, she's cool.

[โ€“] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is there any evidence for this? I'd love to see it

[โ€“] kristina@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

She's said some communist stuff in the past, generally she tries to aim for a mainstream "normal" audience. There's also the fact that she's interviewed a lot of party members in China, some were even pretty high up. Not concrete proof but regardless she's fun to watch

[โ€“] jack@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

There's this one video she did in a minority region in Southern China where her companion was a badass motorcycle riding woman from a tier 1 city. She was teaching Yen how to drink according to local customs, slamming booze with the village elders, and talking about all the local development. She couldn't more obviously have been a party cadre on rural assignment.

[โ€“] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck I didn't know anything about that, that's amazing