For 99% of Chinese, the so called holiday abroad or indeed holiday within China is in fact a culture tour rather than enjoying a relaxing holiday in a beautiful place to rest your body and soul.
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Its mainly for culture, lifestyle, and bragging rights. For Asians from the tropics, the climate is a bonus. There is actually no right or wrong. South East Asia is great, but Western countries are just a different experience.
I have enjoyed travelling to Western countries too, but I don't worship the West. I know that Paris has some great points of interests, but there's plenty of ugly under the surface too. Nevertheless, if there are SEAsians looking for cooler climate, culture, modern cities, and photographs, China is the better choice for today. Its closer, cheaper, cleaner, safer, and minus the racism.
Theres no practical or feasible way of returning to a gold standard(or any hard commodity based standard) short of starting off fresh after a complete collapse of the global financial system. All the contrarian economists who chant about going back to the gold standard never address the elephant in the room: “how?”
A fiat peg would be the first(of many) steps of going to a gold/silver/etc standard, but you never hear them make statements like “1 gram gold = 1 yuan” or “lets back each dollar with 1/100th oz of gold” or “20 USD = 1oz silver”, etc.
So say they manage to do that first step, then you can start going down a rabbit hole of other issues and unforeseen consequences like how to handle all the outstanding debt in the world. Creditors would demand to get paid back in gold, leading to everyone suddenly going on a mad scramble for gold, skyrocketing it's value and making the currency peg in step 1 almost impossible to maintain.
Now you're back at square 1, or worse yet, a complete collapse of the global financial system(but then, they'll finally get there fresh start after unimaginable economic chaos).
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Europe is chockfull of UNESCO sites and museums to explore, and many of them are quite beautiful. And for what its worth, they marketed it well to the world, so people come. Don't know how attractive it'll remain with all the crime and the locals growing less hospitable, but the attraction is there for a reason.
I enjoy my trip in Asia, Cheap and great food with beautiful people (except for arrogant HKG people). My business is in the travel industries, Europe and North America is my bread and butter were I derived most of my profit BUT instead of a relaxing trip (me and my wife usually escort the group) I'm always exhausted, after 5 days of the 2 week itinerary I feel bored and want to go home. The food suck and expensive, I always crave for Asian cuisine especially RICE. There is a silver lining though, when I come home I lost a lot of weigh and my wife is happy.
I wish I can say that so confidently when the richest and most powerful nation on Earth couldn't even guarantee the existence of South Vietnam from a bunch of forest-dwelling rice farmers, or the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from a bunch of mountain-dwelling goat herders.