Blade Runner's New Jews – China, the Diaspora, the Future Hollywood Won't Show
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The answer involves Japanese porn, dying neon signs, and why the Chinese are basically the Jews of Asia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA1NJf6bw0M
That's only one short track, connecting a major airport not even straigth to downtown, but rather the outskirts of that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_maglev_train
And it isn't doing well, economically.
> Our movies should be set in Neo-Beijing.
Try 'Prodigy' corporate owned (one of the big five) New Siam, out of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Earth
edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobius_(TV_series) probably, too. But haven't watched that, so far.
No further complaints ATM. Just shrug?
However, the whole point of the maglev when it was built was to be a new model of innovation for transit. 20 years ago HSR didn't really exist in China, and now most of the trains run at nearly the same speeds.