But also markedly better in many. I've worked in Changsha on and off for the last decade, and I'd move there to live in a heartbeat. The modern US I wouldn't touch with a hundred foot pole.

That's subjective of course - but, while I don't know what you're taught in the US (it's actually exciting to learn that you still have schools, I thought they'd all been converted into gun ranges) about China, that some people are clueing up to the reality being different is an objectively good thing - even if it's not all sunshine and roses in Xi's world either.