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Foreword:   This was originally written on Saturday September 30, 2023. This is the fourth post in my series on China 🇨🇳 and Taiwan 🇹🇼, and it will probably be the last one for a while. You know, until I review Weekend in Taipei , that movie that I mentioned in my Boy Kills World review . We all know that movie won't be getting a Chinese release 🇨🇳. Like, that movie seems like it was practically designed to piss off the Chinese 🇨🇳, and not get approved by the Chinese censors 🇨🇳.  It's not even a particularly political film. It's a movie about a DEA agent who's going after this drug lord who relocated to Taipei after a sting operation against him failed, and is married to an old flame 🔥 of the DEA agent's, who also happens to be a criminal herself. She's a transporter, meaning shes drives criminals around to wherever they want to go. She acts as getaway driver for any criminal doing something illegal like rob a bank, and she also acts as a courier, wi...

  Note:   This was originally written on Friday September 15, 2023, four days after I wrote that other post about China 🇨🇳 being the world's propaganda factory. This is the second entry in my series on China 🇨🇳 and East Asia. I can't wait until I get that North Korea 🇰🇵 one that I wrote, that one's a banger, let me tell you. Do people still say banger these days? Is that a slang or lingo term that people still use? I don't know. I'll still use from time-to-time, even if it is outdated. I still slang and lingo from the 90s and 2000s.  Anyway, I wrote this because at the time, I was thinking about China 🇨🇳's economy and how it was struggling, how it was slowing down, and not recovering as quickly as some thought that it would. China 🇨🇳 had some of the harshest COVID restrictions 🦠😷 of any country in the world, and they had a Zero COVID policy 🦠 even going into 2022, when most other country had already wind down their COVID restrictions 🦠...