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Russians are traveling to China a lot because they're blocked from most places

26 November, 2025 · 1,035,256 views · 1,509 likes · 47 reposts

🇨🇳 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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