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You can easily find examples where you can replace China with the US. And now with the current American leadership I can't say personally that I trust the US more than China at this point.

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Would you prefer daily life like in US or China?

lol you watched too many hollywood movies growing up that you can't imagine daily life an another country being as good or better than living in America you silly goose

They weren't talking about simply any other country, but China specifically. In terms of government interference and freedom of thought, at this point I think the US is still pretty clearly the better place. From the point of view of the EU, though, it is edging closer to China.

I'll take cleaner air and no social score thankyouverymuch.

I wouldn't want to live in either country, but for entirely different reasons for each.

Why would you live on those countries? US taxation law implementation is like the Chinese suppression of your other freedom.

I haven't been to US, but all my friends that visited it were quite disappointed with quality of life there (coming from Poland). But I've recently spent a few weeks in China and I'm really impressed with how advanced it is in terms of infrastructure and technology, I don't think US or even EU is anywhere near where China is right now. So it's not as simple a comparison as it first appears.

My guess is that during your visit you never left the Tier 1 cities of Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Beijing.

Your guess is wrong, other than big cities (Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu and Xi'an) I've also visited smaller cities (under 100K) and villages in central China.

It's not only about QoL. Personal freedom, government accountability and democracy is as important. If not even more important. Coming from ex-Soviet state you should be aware of that (saying this as your neighbour from Lithuania).

Even if democracy in West (or at home) is far from perfect, it's lightyears ahead of China.

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