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The first mutual 'Like' became an appointment just a few hours later . The meeting place was in a bakery in the north of Beijing where they put too hot tea. She arrived with a pink jacket with gold buttons and a white wool hat. He appeared in a black turtleneck that gave off Nenuco's smell.

When he first met, she extended his hand. He threw himself instantly to give him two kisses. First error. Always respect the customs of the person who plays at home and not invade their space.

The appointment continued with the little harmony with which it had begun. Under the protection of a mobile screen, everything is easier. Especially when it comes to understanding. Because it is in the face to face when you realize that the telephone translator is not effective. You don't have that pause. And to ask him what he does in Chinese, you need several minutes and the high neck starts to cause an uncomfortable sweating. The tea was still burning when the date was over.

The second 'match' arrived hours after that failed match . This time there were many emoticons with little hearts in the previous chat. Because it became another face-to-face meeting after a few hours. It was already dawn. The place: a British pub in one of the most central walking areas of Beijing.

She arrived with a blue blouse, tight black jeans and heels. He was still in his jersey smelling of Nenuco. They greeted each other with a handshake. But there was no fluid conversation possible. She only spoke Chinese . English. Although this time the appointment ended unexpectedly well, totally opposite to the previous one because neither of them really wanted to talk. It's the good thing of not understanding you in any language. That, sometimes, you go straight to the point.

The other 'Great Wall'

Well, if you have reached this line it is because the subject has caught your attention. So let's start at the beginning of the story . For the Great Wall. The stone one, the other one, the digital one. That great firewall mounted by the Chinese 14 years ago so that the people were not corrupted by the "evil cultures" outside. That big block to "western perversion" applications and browsers. Luckily they copy everything. And when they want they do very well. We go with one of the best: the Tinder 'Made in China' .

His name is Tantan and it works exactly like his counterpart that Spaniards like so much: you can't start flirting with the other person if the Like is not mutual. The male section is quite boring . It could be divided into two blocks: there are the gym muscles with the same bangs and putting little bones in front of the mirror. And then those who leave, more intellectual roll, posing with a book in their hands, looking melancholy behind a window while the heavy rain falls on the ...

In the female section there is more variety . Something that is totally objective, regardless of the sexual taste of each user. Because you find girls who pose with anti-pollution masks or with Pikachu stuffed animals. Others, more instagramer, put 50 filters on the face and even enlarge the eyes . The latter is the most common. And the strangest thing. Then you stay to take a piece of cake with a girl who in her photos looked like from the Canary Islands, and a girl appears whiter than milk and with her eyes torn. And he tells you that she is a rebel, an anti-system, because she is 23 years old and has not yet married .

If you criticize the regime, forget about flirting

There are also girls like the user Coco. It was his first interaction with a western boy. I wanted to know many things from outside. The boy also from China. The words Hong Kong and democracy came out. "Don't put that around here. Delicate issues, no," she said. The words censorship and spy regime came out. And Coco blocked it.

Clair and Sophia did the same (yes, they are Chinese girls, but they put on those names . And that usually means they speak English). The first said that she was tired of Westerners getting the name of China dirty talking about lack of freedom when "it is the freest country in the world."

For her part, Sophia began to rant against the United States, saying that she is to blame for the wrong face that China has throughout the world. " People think we are oppressed here or something ," he said. And some reason is right. When the questions continued, they both blocked the boy. Moral: it is clear that this is not the case.

In truth, Tantan is a great invention . Or at least a great copy. It has served so that many young people leave a little of the established social structures. That they are disinhibited without fear of altering the codes of conduct established by the Communist Party for the public.

Desperate men, women with filters

The creator of Tantan, Wang Yu, says that the application has more than seven million users every day and that there have already been more than 3,000 million interactions. If you do vip and pay five euros a month it is easier for you to have them, because you can see who gave you Like and give it back. But, as in the Spanish Tinder, they are the ones they really choose.

" Women like 6% of their recommended users while men do it at 60%," explains Wang. What Tantan CEO has failed to explain very well is why his game to flirt sends you a message Threatening to expel you from the application if you raise the tone -sexual, from mutual respect and consent- during a chat conversation.

It is also logical that they carefully select their Likes because the men's catalog is much broader . And the heart button is limited and, when it runs out, you have to wait a day or two to be able to play again.

There are many men because in China, in general, there is plenty. Specifically, 30 million to make a balance proportional to the number of women. To find an explanation for this demographic disaster, we should ask those politicians who in 1979 decided to implement the one-child policy , in force until only four years ago.

Communist heritage

In those 70s the population grew too fast and that was incompatible with the economic explosion of what is now the second world power. Births had to be regulated so that new children would not devour more bread than there was. Then that restriction worked. Or so they thought from Beijing. But they did not have that when it came to limiting parents to have only one child, they would always give preference to having a boy .

A recent international study published in the American scientific journal PNAS pointed out that this practice of selective abortion has prevented the birth of nearly 800,000 girls a year . Making calculations, if the one-child policy has lasted 36 years, we can point out that there are now almost 29 million fewer women in China than there would be if that policy had never been established.

That is why there are so many men involved in applications to flirt as Tantan in search of a partner . Another thing is the reason why most of them pose in their photos by putting little bones in front of a mirror while climbing the shirt a little so that you can see an abdominal retouched with photoshop.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

• Tinder
• China
• Hong Kong
• U.S
• Canary Islands

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