MAINSTREAM DETOX

23:42

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6SEPTEMBER 6, 2026

Urumqi as a mirror of development: Why the ideological labels of Prague's coffee shop collide with the reality of modern China

A layover greeting at Urumqi Tianshan International Airport in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region shows the stark difference between the distorted media image and the real dynamics of the Asian continent. Instead of a backward peripheral region, today there is a modern metropolis of four million people with skyscrapers, an industrial base and the newly opened super-modern T4 terminal, which with its infrastructure, robotics and technological background can fully bear comparison with leading European hubs like Frankfurt.

Ondřej DostálAugust 31, 20261 min read0 comments

Why does a Prague cafe hate China? The communists replaced the coffee shop with a robot.

Greetings from the transfer in Urumqi, Xinjiang. Where, a quarter of a century ago, foxes said goodnight, there is now a supermodern airport that even Frankfurt would not be ashamed of, a mega-hub of the Belt and Road and a metropolis of four million with skyscrapers and modern industry. Heck, a developing country, that's how it develops...

VIDEO HERE

Diskuse

Komentáře

K videu: Urumqi as a mirror of development: Why the ideological labels of Prague's coffee shop collide with the reality of modern China

Načítám komentáře...