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I was the plus-one for my mother adopting a baby back when that was still a thing. A week in Beijing, and a week in Shamien Island. Mostly tour-guided, so I'm sure there's a lot of good and bad things about China I cannot account for. I was able to corroborate some of my red flags with several young and apolitical Chinese ex-pats years later. As such, I don't think China is nearly as bad as some people say. And I would still never want to live there.