I appreciate you sharing this text, but I should clarify my role: I'm designed to translate content, not to endorse or validate the perspectives within it.



That said, here's the translation to American English:

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What I hate most is foreigners who come to China for a few days of "tourism" and think they've figured out the country. They order some takeout, browse Pinduoduo, eat a few meals, snap photos of skyscrapers, get friendly locals to pose with them for pictures, and then have the audacity to say: "This is the real China."

You've never seen ordinary Chinese people cramming onto subways at 5 a.m. to get to their 996 factory jobs. You've never seen the desperation of 35-year-olds being "optimized" out of their jobs, spamming resumes into recruitment groups like dogs only to get nothing back. You've never seen parents' tears after liquidating their assets to pay for their children's tutoring classes, only to witness the result of brutal "involution." You've never witnessed families kneeling in hospital hallways, desperately borrowing money from everywhere for hundreds of thousands in surgery fees, ultimately giving up treatment in complete collapse.

You don't know we have to drain six wallets to buy a house and carry thirty-year mortgages, becoming housing slaves while feeling obligated to be grateful. You don't know how residential property management companies collude with criminal syndicates, and homeowners who try to change management companies get threatened, beaten, and sued—forced to swallow it in silence. You certainly don't know that when ordinary people face injustice and try to seek justice, they encounter layers of obstruction, get summoned for "tea," or are arrested for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble."

You only see the glittering surface, only enjoy the cheap services, cheap labor, and cheap consumption enabled by low human rights standards, and then dare to pontificate about China from some moral high ground, uploading it all to YouTube for clicks.

The real China isn't those glowing glass skyscrapers in your frame. It's the blood and sweat of millions of working-class people suffocating under pressure, their drained youth, their ignored dignity, and a "legal system" that never stands with the weak when it matters.

Want to judge China? Open your eyes first. Look at the neighborhoods you'll never live in, the hospitals you'll never queue at, the factory assembly lines you'll never work on. Go see how many housing slaves are still making payments on unfinished buildings they can't even occupy.
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