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

26 November, 2025 ยท 1,035,030 views ยท 1,523 likes ยท 49 reposts

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ We barely see any tourists at all

The tourists in our hotel are domestic or international Chinese

The rest is ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ 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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