China is not really dystopian

Spent a few months this year there and while it’s hard to manage 1.5B people, all of government is an experiment.

Speedrunning into dystopia.

Peter McCormack said it best recently: The UK tries to emulate China’s control state and they do it very badly. Instead, they should maximize what they’re really good at, to differentiate themselves from the rest of the world—namely, creating a free state so that the people can thrive.