I was this year in China. Grindr in Beijing was pretty quiet, but I was mostly visiting various tourism attractions. Destination gay club was crazy busy, it was Halloween. English was challenging there. No dates in the capital.
Grindr in Shanghai was similar to Taipei and I had sometimes two visitors per day in my hotel near Bund. The most interesting one (but not fun-wise) was one Korean. „So you are from Soul?„ No, I was born in Pyongyang“. 🙂 Hotel did not care about my visitors. One twink insisted I try his cock in the dark corners of the central park, late at night. He was a nice guy, showed me the „family sauna“ (more like an entertainment complex), the male part was very gay with some eye candy. Action starts after 23, however, foreigners cannot stay there for a night. Shanghai parks are very quiet and nice at night, well designed, with water bonds, really romantic.
Politically some twinks were concerned about the future, but some in line with the official policy. The wakeup call for the concerned ones was China covid policy, which incarcerated people in their homes (twinks in their uni dormitories) and the first period without the food..
I expected to see lots of handsome guys on the streets and public transportation, but not so much. Ladies were really beautiful.
I would say its easy for western tourist, everything is app based. In some supermarkets Chinese can pay for their groceries with face recognition!
The amount of cameras and police is a bit like in a dystopian movie.