Blade Runner's New Jews – China, the diaspora, the future Hollywood won't show (terminaldrift.substack.com)

So where the hell is our Chinese dystopian future? Where are the Hollywood blockbusters set in Neo-Beijing? Why does every sci-fi movie still fetishize the same tired Tokyo aesthetic that peaked when Reagan was president?

The answer involves Japanese porn, dying neon signs, and why the Chinese are basically the Jews of Asia.

> ...maglev trains that hit 430 km/h

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?