Your story reminds me of a relative of mine who worked in a retail women's shop and talked about the Chinese cutting lines, looking at clothes and then just dropping them on the floor. We don't want them to drink, the experience has made them sound like a raging racist against the Chinese.
My experience, however, has always been great! English, French, Chinese or American--most people can't become wealthy without becoming intolerable.
Lei has the best theory I've heard about the balloon . She says this is the first time gov't leadership is being totally replaced with CCP's leadership (in a month). So no one is really working, paying attention, lame ducks, so whoever launched the balloon either screwed up or might have had some desire to embarrass Xi. She believes Xi is actually in serious political trouble and did not want this.
