Russians are traveling to China a lot because they're blocked from most places
🇨🇳 We barely see any tourists at all
The tourists in our hotel are domestic or international Chinese
The rest is 🇷🇺 Russians
Everywhere I look actually is Russians
Even Beijing's new airport at some points has signs in Chinese, English....and Russian!
I didn't expect this
Apparently Russians are blocked from traveling to most places so they come to China a lot
And they do a lot of business now
The Chinese we talked to say the Russian businesses for Russians in China are complaining that the Russians are spending less and the money is drying up though which is an interesting anecdotal point
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