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“Just why would you visit China?” “What’s there to eat besides insects?” “But it has a horrible track of human rights abuse.” “I’d rather go to Europe.” For years, most of my social acquaintances have been reticent about the idea of visiting China, deeming it ‘dangerous, disgusting and boring’ for no obvious reason than what they’ve been told or what they have read about in foreign news outlets. Although Egypt has a plethora of Chinese restaurants and receives millions of…