Cottenlai_Zhou

Nah, it was a proof of concept that 'lost' to regular HSR. The regular metro already does its job, just slower and cheaper. They might do other maglev lines elsewhere but I imagine the Pudong Line will remain mostly just a novelty.

and next time I go back I intend to do the maglev train from Shanghai to… wherever it goes

It goes from the airport to the middle of nowhere, thanks to NIMBYs. It's basically a rollercoaster.

Lol China doesn't give the slightest shit about what you say or have said in the past on some western website. Even if they did care, you're really not important enough to be worth the diplomatic incident.

You're fine, go.

Got nothing else to add that others haven't except that it's very weird to refer to world leaders by only their first names.

Was it Khrushchev who Mao took swimming in the Yangtze, knowing he couldn't swim so he'd have to wear water wings?

You can use alipay and/or wechat pay with foreign cards these days, as far as I know.