Why China Sucks at Soft Power - China's Reckoning (Part 4) 

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I skipped this, but you’re welcome

Same. Being teased about those extra videos every single time has finally convinced me to go for it.

Absolutely, same here!

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For me it was the Macau video. It’s unlisted right now, but that was an amazing video.

For me it's the wendover documentaries, really considering subbing to it

Way too verbose to contribute

The question then arises - What today's children will learn, and when some of them ascend to power - how will they behave?

@spam ham Xi's family got purged during this time, his father got public humiliation, her sister killed herself and himself was forced to work in the countrysides. It was a crazy period when China was the enemy of the 2 superpowers which both threatened to nuke them, the Chinese youth were raised to be prepared for WW3, so it's nothing for them to hurt relations by responding against western aggressions since they have survived the times when both the capitalist bloc and communist bloc wanted their deaths. Actually, countries like Russia, Iran and Serbia are happy about that and see this as an opportunity to get revenge from the USA, they are also acting more confidently.

Not to mention a generation that learned to condemn teachers elders and authority figures only to be reprimanded and told to go to the country side when Mao got it's wish and eliminated his political enemy.

@Troll McClure The last month's events and the astonishing drawing together of the West and its allies has definitely come as a shock to them, it seems

I guess that is exactly why Trump was so vocal on China. On Twitter as well.

@HS Ooi at least he is out of the game now, but Xi will stay in this position for long long time...

@kakapos_ I guess you didn't see how much action is being put out by Biden as well. Nothing changed, its just an illusion of choice.

@HS Ooi You can just google what the Biden administration did up until now... you may disagree with them but they do in fact work

Unintentionally explained taiwan's political situation

I'm convinced of the video's hypothesis of china doing this as a front for their insecurity because Russia under Putin is doing the exact same thing and everyone can see thru it Also, remove? Mitigate is more like it, u can't remove US involvement in east Asia when Japan and Korea are its 2 biggest most vital economies

You are correct on it but I think Beijing missed the timing due to internal issues. When Beijing Biden took over WH; it truly was the best time to make peace instead of doubling down on expansionist policy while breaking yet more trade agreements with the US~etc. It fact it has gotten even worse... since they saw some opportunity to overcome even the US at that time... with US's uncoordinated withdrawal from Afganastan, Burma's successful military coup (Beijing was supporting supply/coordination and now even giving them submarines...) and democracy countries can't really do much about countries that outright rigged their election by detaining challengers (e.g Belarus, Venezuela Nicaragua etc... sanction can't be the only solution) Needless to say; I felt Washington was only trying to make Xi step down to restore the past relationship w/o fixing many of the rooted problems which didn't work out. The people at large probably won't be satisfied with that. I am somewhat concerned if Russia will end up annexing part of China "Again" like the past during the Chinese Civil War, World War etc... Japan abandoned its military was able to recover well despite being the only country that was nuked during WW. Their pacifism stance is/was the oldest policy that remain unchanged since the WW and Japan greatly benefited from it. 1) Other nation's citizens don't see Japan as a threat anymore (excluding mainland communist-china and Korea)... Japan's greatest soft power was their gaming & animation LOL. Ps. benevolent + Beijing don't mix well. US's reputation had fallen but so had the credibility of China due to Beijing's actions and numerous broken promises. Both sides will have difficulty restoring them so I am actually more interested to see how the other 3-9th global power will react. USA was the undisputed global dominant power which was able to dominate its benevolence towards China... for it was the only country that redirects all war-reparation fees to free education for the Chinese in USA after War and despite its dominance... didn't try to do land grab like the former European power, USSR/Russia/etc. That clearly isn't something China is capable of when it has already unofficially annexed so many lands from other neighboring countries and even provided weapons to Burma's military who started a coup killing thousands of civilians. Beijing is no longer the welcoming China it once was under Den's leadership =/ May he rest in peace and not see the present-day China.

Well, they now seem to not working on soft power at all, and rather just buy their allies.

This all got reversed when a single dictator took power for life by nixing constitutional term limits. Now it’s all about protecting one man power in the guise of the party and the people.

Guess their movie industry is stuck in the 80s or a poor copy of Arnie blockbusters era Hollywood.

I don't know if American's would consider those movies to be particularly good for the basis of a diplomatic policy.

@Ryan Healy IDK "One man army changes the world.. somehow" could describe alot of American mishaps aboard... Mostly it just seems to confuse and tick off most other countries so I wouldn't recommend it though.

Typical response out of weakness: when questioned, point finger at someone else.

@gstlb Well thats not the full quote, he probably said something about fantasy and selling, but the only part you pay attention to is that.

I’ve noticed the same thing.

Why does opening up has to mean follow u blindly, why we open up but u don’t open to us

If u do a statistics, average Chinese know more about the west and travel more to those countries than a western person know about china. That’s why every western person so nervous and wanna know what China is on this show. So who is more open? Really

That was funny

Haha you think Japan hates China, wait until you see Southeast Asia

I don't get it.

@Ibnu some of SEA hates China because of the sea thing but Korea, Japan and Vietnam hate it even without any conflict

@Robert Abella not really. Korea Japan and Vietnam hates China becaus of wars in the past. Few years back the rest of Southeast Asia actually get along pretty well with China for centuries, as historically we're very good trade partners and tributaries with China. But since China suddenly got rich.. yeah it's amazing what money can do to anything.

Savage, which country are you from

@Sagoda I think the Philippines

@Flow Sounds like something Duterte would do

@Dean Churchman Sadly the PH pres is the reason why the diplomat apologised.

@Tom Cruz literally the entirety of SEA has some sort of beef with china lol

I am Greek. China bought our main port. If anything goes wrong, it is on us. We sold it to them. China might be behind many things. Our collapse is on us though. I wish you the best good people of Brasil.

As a Chinese, I'm almost shocked that China is not blamed by everyone for everything related...it feels weird, mate

@Franco Zheng even harder to believe that those time was just a couple years ago, now people just, cope with it, and find another one

It was designed to keep people outside, but now it functions to keep themselves inside.

Oh- lol! I didn't notice that!

​@Yaxiong Zhao Just because the US does it doesn't make it any less right.

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@Xin Yi 手机号必须用身份证实名注册…

To be balanced, it's also because western narratives on China are 98% negative during a period of peace and prosperity, and where the socialist Chinese government vastly outperformed western ones during the pandemic.

@Mark Liu To be honest with you though, do you know that the Chinese are infamous for not publishing true numbers on anything, also would there be so many negative articles if the population, in general, didn't view china so negatively because of its own actions?

See you guys in 500+ replies

​@Mark Liu I would not put all your beliefs in the Chinese reporting of accurate numbers. Time will tell...

@TheRedHunter "Chinese are infamous for not publishing true numbers..." That why China is outperformed. Didn't you see it? You already didn't believe China.

The courruption isn't even hidden all this fake cities being built and the land policies, even the river diversion project instead of just raising the water price easily. These people need to be in n power and have to have connections and legacy left behind doesn't matter if it will ruin future generations of the country. They are so rich they could honestly raise water prices but God knows if that GDP is even true or are the numbers screwed up in there.

A video full of prejudice. It seems that a defenceless China is friendly in their eyes. No, it is the defenceless China that can be easily controlled by them that is friendly. Don't only see one side of China, China is not only friendly, it is also powerful and can not be bullied. Why is China getting tougher after 2010? Because even if China joined the WTO, even if China is willing to make friends with the world, the European countries and North American countries are not willing to share even a little profit with China, and try to make China succumb to their bullying with very strong means. For example, in photovoltaic, telecommunications, networking and chips, if there is even the slightest chance that Chinese companies will overtake them, they will do their best to suppress them. They just want the Chinese to make cheap socks for them. After ten years of being bullied, China has had enough. The Chinese people have had enough. As a result, China's diplomatic posture has become increasingly assertive in recent years. Because some people don't know what friendly is, they just want to keep China under their control.

If you're not in China, then you ought to be. By the way, it's one word - "cannot".

"Because hitler can do it, why i cant do it?" Hans, famous germans Sorry for my lame jokes haha But seriously the phrase is just like a child sibling fight like " why my brother can do it while i cant?"

@Alexander Ludwig Thaddeus Van D'Arc Although it is childish, it is not unexplainable nor that unreasonable.

US diplomats do not go out of their way and slander their host countries. You're basically burning bridges and good luck trying to get anyone to work with you in the future. Even during the Trump era, it was really mainly the president doing it, and it still caused damage. When your entire diplomatic Corps does it, then it is effectively policy and you can't blame the individual anymore.

@Comrade of the Balance its irrational and invalid argument about what the artist said, if it just follow other style than its meant to be unoriginal, if theey want to create their own identity they should find something unique to create their own identity. And its not wrong to follow other path, its just unoriginal

John Rambo's radio callsign in the second movie was "Lone Wolf"

For veiws ofc

@Tim ? The least he deserves is views for this incredibly detailed and extremely low in bias series.

@Joshua Lucas Some people are very victimized by the CCP's propaganda, and refuse to accept any evidence that goes against the CCP. It's sad. I suspect @Subjective doesn't believe what was said in the video, and probably thinks he's taking CIA money or some crazy BS.

@Joshua Lucas extremely low bias? Are you kidding me? It’s extremely biased.

There's a reason STEM people tend to fail in politics and even regular management: they're too tunnel-visioned to listen or care about what actually motivates people.

The Canadian people, and similarly the Australian people, are the closest thing that Americans have as brothers in terms of culture, demographics, and politics.

I mean we are basically US-lite

@PrizmaK the less radical, more happy US

@Falling Pictures Productions I am not sure anyone is close to us in politics. What other country has two fucking "parliaments" lol. People complain the American political system doesn't work but don't realize it was built that way.

@Megan H Quite a few countries have two Houses of Parliament, Congress, or whatever else they call their national legislatures. It’s called a Bicameral legislature and can be found in places like France and Italy

That's a classic mistranslation, the original word"虚则实之，实则虚之" have far more meaning than weak or strong, please check your source before quoting anyone's words.

@Morgen Q Then what would the Correct translation be?

Lols, It is exactly what it is in the art of war, in layman term it's called bluffing, don't let these Chinese fool you, they always make all these "Chinese quotes" have some special meaning the West never understand so they feel they are more "superior" in philosophy when in reality they can't beat the sh*t out of the West. So when you ask more they will say "oh, you will never understand these and that" "oh, Chinese culture is very deep beyond other civilization's understanding" in this case "it cannot be translated", sometimes it is true but most of the time it is what it is. The purpose is to confuse the enemy, and there are different levels of confusion, yet i don't think you can do more in translation for this quote. Edit: Chinese is my first language, so i know when poeple are bullshitting or not

@Morgen Q Play the part of a lion cub, when you are truly lion, and a Wolf Warrior, when you but a wolf cub... There, got the right translation for you.😎

@John Kuang Right... well, I will stick with the above translation, and to heck with any lost meanings. I get what the quote is talking about, so nothing else matters.

prediction? lol - just a plan in action.

lol China has followed the example of the US for the past 40 years and we realize that hard power and soft power depend on strong military power, economic power, technological power and determination to use force, freedom of navigation, global deployment and power projection

A video full of prejudice. It seems that a defenceless China is friendly in their eyes. No, it is the defenceless China that can be easily controlled by them that is friendly. Don't only see one side of China, China is not only friendly, it is also powerful and can not be bullied. Why is China getting tougher after 2010? Because even if China joined the WTO, even if China is willing to make friends with the world, the European countries and North American countries are not willing to share even a little profit with China, and try to make China succumb to their bullying with very strong means. For example, in photovoltaic, telecommunications, networking and chips, if there is even the slightest chance that Chinese companies will overtake them, they will do their best to suppress them. They just want the Chinese to make cheap socks for them. After ten years of being bullied, China has had enough. The Chinese people have had enough. As a result, China's diplomatic posture has become increasingly assertive in recent years. Because some people don't know what friendly is, they just want to keep China under their control. Since you said China is now aggressive, let the rest of the world does not like. Then why have so many European and American politicians visited China in recent months? Because they know as long as they come for cooperation, China will always be friendly! Just look at the smile on the face of US President Joe Biden at the recent US-China meeting.

He does have a handful of videos on the US (not counting tons of videos about specific companies he's made). In particular, I'd recommend the one "Self Driving Cars Won't Save Cities, But This Will" and also the one he did about the SAT (but you may as well watch that one together with the one about China's standardized test).

I wouldn't call it that high level, it is mostly superficial. Tiananmen Square Massacre is more like Beijing Street Riot Quelling.

Like anyone else, he needs to give people reasons to support him. And this is way better than any other common promotion. Nebula is amazing, it gives creators a platform to do what they want without having to worry about BRvids idiotic rules and algorithm. It's a thing that's been needed for years and many people, including me, happily pay for that. It almost feels bad to get such a cheap way to do it though IMO.

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Isn't it kinda hard to cramp up all these points to one video???

Not every countries has those kinds of vital threats though.

@Me Neither yes they do. They are just different

@Steven Oviedo cite me a major threat to Switzerland's existence.

​@Me Neither Landslides and avalanches will get worse with climate change as they already have in other mountainous countries like Bhutan. Plus the French peaking Jura region has a separatist movement.

lol China has followed the example of the US for the past 40 years and we realize that hard power and soft power depend on strong military power, economic power, technological power and determination to use force, freedom of navigation, global deployment and power projection

@Louis Wu and there lies the problem with talking to either people here in America who's never lived in China, or people like yourself who has never lived in America. America needs an enemy to unite themselves through their problems, happens to be either Russia, or China depending on the day. I completely agree (China's doing the same thing, whether you like to admit it or not and this has been the way many years before Trump. where we are now is not a Trump started problem). BUT both sides like yourself make the problem sound so simple: "x reason, that's all". This is why I appreciate that video, and clearly, you didn't learn a thing from it, because you are unwilling to believe it. You don't have to remind me of the west propaganda. I can tell a true propaganda vs not. I see it everyday. Also for your information, the propaganda goes both ways, for example Chinese media make Covid sound way worse here in America than it actually is. I don't expect you to believe it, which really means there's nothing more for us to talk about until you acknowledge that both sides does the same thing, especially when you just go around calling other people "idiots". Grow up child. Or don't grow up, stay in your small world of "only inside China" forever. I really don't care.

@Louis Wu Your words would have made sense if china only verbally abused US. But that's not the case. It's showings hostility to US allies, india and even some asean nations

A lot of places depend on China but China also depend on a lot of places as well. It makes sense why they do what they do but it’s still kinda stupid. You need to engage in trade with everyone but you also go around pissing everyone off.

I really recommend Caspian Report. It's a bit dyer but it is world class.

I would also recommend whatifalthist for geopolitics and philosophy

@Breathtaker What about AlternateHistoryHub?

Please, please, please engage the politicians in your country, and stop them from doing so.

It's also a coping mechanism for the West, to tell itself that China apparently isn't a major power to be taken seriously? Or? Either China is or isn't. Are they? Lol. Any convincing needed?

@Dude Trust Me china is a rising power, but thats about it, it will definetly stand in the higher schelons alongside the united states, Japan, south Korea and Germany, etc, but i very much doubt they will be able to become the premiere global super power like the united states did, much less with their militant attitude burning soo many bridges with potential allies I mean they literaly forced both the united states and the european unión to reindustrialize, india was ln the fence but now it's buddiss with the US as it's the vast mayority of SEA, quad is a show of what happens when you anger the rest of the world and put them against you

randomguy8196 CCP is far from a united party, even suggestions of assassination plots, but yes it is not as bad as Japan politically right now. But the trade war and the hostile diplomacy. Talking about the influence of the west and rejection of Western culture. Especially the friction in the league of nations, not quite there but it is shaping up that way.

A video full of prejudice. It seems that a defenceless China is friendly in their eyes. No, it is the defenceless China that can be easily controlled by them that is friendly. Don't only see one side of China, China is not only friendly, it is also powerful and can not be bullied. Why is China getting tougher after 2010? Because even if China joined the WTO, even if China is willing to make friends with the world, the European countries and North American countries are not willing to share even a little profit with China, and try to make China succumb to their bullying with very strong means. For example, in photovoltaic, telecommunications, networking and chips, if there is even the slightest chance that Chinese companies will overtake them, they will do their best to suppress them. They just want the Chinese to make cheap socks for them. After ten years of being bullied, China has had enough. The Chinese people have had enough. As a result, China's diplomatic posture has become increasingly assertive in recent years. Because some people don't know what friendly is, they just want to keep China under their control.

i think he literally answered why he made one on China specifically, i don't think he'll be making a series like this again.

@Fahim Rind It would be nice to see an objective & deep analysis like this one though

Issues with infrastructure, decentralized political system making it difficult to pass, two party system, (these factors makes it hard to do anything long term), military industrial complex. Just to name a few of the many problems that needs to be addressed.

@trajan politics is not about choosing best, but choosing least worse, which currently is ruling, there are chances of improvements , but now they to started appeasement 😓

I think a series on China (like this one) is more needed because China is not open, and their politics is very opaque, and their structure and organisation are inscrutable (meaning, "cannot be screwed with", right?). Whereas the US system is open and reported, and while there are some secrets, all the pundits would have sussed out the secrets and put it all out there.

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@jacob gagnon I'm sorry for your nationality then :'(

Yes USA has soft power that’s correct but USA doesn’t allow other people to have hard power. That’s why USA praises Korea and Japan’s for their soft power but never allows them to have hard power

@Eric b I have no idea what’s that’s got to do with what I commented…

Yeah i agree, this is a video that i would recommend to anyone with an interest to near history and Chinese political situation

I åm chinêsê ånd I wånt tó têll yóů : Yóů cån't find åny rêdêmptión ór hópê in Chinå, it's å cóůntry withóůt thóůghts. å dêgênêråtê pópůlåtión, å sóůllêss pópůlåtión. This cóůntry hås pródůcêd nó nåtůrål sciêncê, nó sóciål sciêncê, nó hůmånistic thróůgh its históry. Chinêsê pêóplê håvê nêvêr thóůght ónê thing tó clêår in thêir thóůsånds yêårs históry. Thê êlitês in chinå's históry årê åll êgóists ånd nårcissists, thê cůltůrê thêy crêåtê is růbbish. Thê Chinêsê hås thê cåpåbility tó livê with thê big liês hånging åbóvê thêir hêåds, CCP dêcêivês ånd ênslåvês thêm, thêy årê willing tó dó êvil fór CCP, fór bênêfit. Thêy årê idióts dåncing ůndêr thê cóntról óf CCP. Thêy årê mórålly dêpråvêd ånd dårê tó dó ånything. I têll yóů hónêstly, this cóůntry drivês mê cråzy.

@ssdfrs ohuiu Don’t blame the people for the government’s actions

@ssdfrs ohuiu very funny lies, keep it on

and taking that into account means someday china gonna declare war on atleast taiwan and maybe even the US

Every country in the world play nationalism

@David Liu No. every country has nationalist but not every country does irrational, dangerous things just to feed the ego of its own people. You don’t see Germany going Germany first and wanting to leave from the EU

@Supergamer Grill Germany gain the a lot of benefits from EU such as labors from eastern europe and a large market for german products. USA, Australia, Canada, Japan, India are all being more nationalist in their actions, so why is it wrong for China to have some extent of nationalism in forign action. The younger generation of China has been more nationalistic than the chinese government. We have friendly relation eith Pakistan and a lot of African countries. We are willing to make trade deal with EU which benefited both sides. We are playing more Multilateralism approach. China is just fighting back because USA and his fellow aillies (except Europe) don't want to be friend with China since the Trump administration.

As someone with chinese roots, I completely agree. Most east asian culture would rather build a tough shell instead of admitting and improving. My dad taught me to try and make mistakes if and when I could so that I would learn instead of hiding from it. To this day, I'm grateful that he taught me that

You have to make a clear difference between “small dog barks loudest” and “pushover standing up against bullies”. U should make the distinction. Since bully can morally abduct the oppressed that don’t every fight back, if you fight back, you are the small dog that barks the loudest. 😂funny huh.

But the American don’t have face at all, that’s why they can have a president that cares nothing on the American stage and jokes all day😂

@Soonly TaingI disagree with u and I’m Chinese as well, it’s cultural difference, Japanese and Korean both care about face much

@Soonly Taingapanese care face more to the extent of suiciding

A video full of prejudice. It seems that a defenceless China is friendly in their eyes. No, it is the defenceless China that can be easily controlled by them that is friendly. Don't only see one side of China, China is not only friendly, it is also powerful and can not be bullied. Why is China getting tougher after 2010? Because even if China joined the WTO, even if China is willing to make friends with the world, the European countries and North American countries are not willing to share even a little profit with China, and try to make China succumb to their bullying with very strong means. For example, in photovoltaic, telecommunications, networking and chips, if there is even the slightest chance that Chinese companies will overtake them, they will do their best to suppress them. They just want the Chinese to make cheap socks for them. After ten years of being bullied, China has had enough. The Chinese people have had enough. As a result, China's diplomatic posture has become increasingly assertive in recent years. Because some people don't know what friendly is, they just want to keep China under their control.

Wait until tonga gets angry .

It's a problem when most countries people view your country negatively. China has zero cultural exports, and it's too aggressive in such a short span. Its reputation is going downhill. Fast

@Shivansh NA Well, Anger does not make any country stronger. Anger or goodwill cannot make bullets or bread free. History clearly tells us a lot.

@IDEA Edward it's meme of Tonga time

@Bill Bopperton Let me tell you something that this video doesn't tell you. After the 2008 financial crisis, Obama immediately decided to contain China. The United States continued to encourage neighboring countries to offend China and only showed China’s reactions in the news, without showing the reasons for China’s reactions.

Pretty enlightened you are! As an Indonesian i don't see why Indonesia have to join in the South China Sea, also the government's corrupt and is essentially a theocracy

Beautifully said. I think it’s always good to make a distinction between a government that you may disagree with and the population that government controls. Well done 👏🏽

It still feels ambiguous on your comments as the Chinese govt has declared a policy of credit system, I barely believe in your comments and neither the source is believable couse of Chinese bots financed by ccp. So I go for not believing you but I do respect you if the respect is mutual. 👏👏

I'm Chinese Malaysian, and my great-grandparents came to British Malaya in 1930, so I hold even less of those kind of aggressive patriotism. We are very bo chap when it comes to national issues. Government ka kee can handle it one lah, mai gan cheong one!

what do Chinese see as the cause? Is it Xi Jinping?

@C brtdgh Well it is complicated. The 2008 4-trillion-investement plan has given a hit to the economy structure. The plan are most infrastrcture projects, which are fullfilled by stated-owned or party-senior-owned/affiliated companies. So most of profits drown from the plan went back to China or the rich. To get more GDP growth, local government had made much much more debt than they should have. In some county(县), the interest of debt or loans are even higher than the annual financial income. So the central government need to try everything to get in under control.

@C brtdgh There were very little political reform since 1989, but during Hu's time, they still mention democracy, Judicial independence, seperating government from party, trying to join civilised democratic world. But since Xi came into power, everything has changed. The Supreme Court claimed to "say no to judicial independence", Xi claimed that all party media must followed the party instructions and everything shall be led by the party. No agents or media organisations are allowed to compose news unless they achieved some kind of certificate which has only be accquired by party media. Anyway since he came into power, to surpress those lieberals, he tried everything. One of the most used and efficient way is to create hate, hate against most democractic countries, even by composing completely fake news. Yeah, that's 1984 in practice.

@C brtdgh Anyway it is complicated, the previous inappropriate policy has set a Xi a great bomb. The growth of economy is slowing and people are demanding more basic rights, either they give the rights back to people like S.Korea or Taiwan, or they need to figure something out. Clearly Xi thinks wolf-warrior diplomacy and Nazi-Style Nationalism is the way to keep party and him in power.

I know what I have to say doesn’t help change the current situation in China. But this is why multiple political parties are needed in a democracy. Yes you lose harmony and the ability to take quick decisive action and policy changes due to the need for various debates and bureaucratic processes. But if the one party in charge makes a mistake, there is nobody else to take over and change course. It seems like the country is headed for ever more extreme actions and decisions that only become more unsustainable. Until it either falls apart or breaks out into (civil)war. Best case scenario the CCP has an internal power struggle where cooler heads come out on top and work on mending foreign relations and focusing on internal affairs fixing the problems mentioned in this series. But that’s wishful thinking. To the Chinese people I wish you the best of luck. Because I fear for what your future might look like.

Nice summary.

Yes they all got boycotted but we still stay strong😂and the rest of world still buy goods from us. I think it takes a while for Vietnam Thailand Mexico India to catch up the manufacturing advantage tho😂

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Agreed

What did Big Joel ever do to you

Yup, and the answer is... exactly what the video implied. The CCP can't keep those GDP numbers growing forever, and when the inevitable recession happens, it'll be the people questioning why the government spends so much on this and that.

@Crish Hari lol as if it didn’t suffer when they have a strong central government, if you do know Chinese history you would know that in both Ming and Qing an over centralised government contributed to their downfall. And you can’t take these historical situations and put it in today’s world and use it as a reason for an authoritarian government. Every country has once had an authoritarian government/king/court or whatever you wanna call it. But culture have developed to recognise the universal rights and freedoms of individuals. You cannot violate these rights just to maintain stability and your own power.

@Green Hat are you serious? That's the number 1 method to maintain power for government irregardless. Whether democracy or dictatorship, they will violate human rights to keep power. Or at the very least (best case) forgo the wishes of some of the population. The question is to what extent. When you think about it, it is actually quite fascinating. In a democracy , as long as you please 51% (less in many first past the post system) of the population, the rest can go screw themselves. In a dictatorship, upset 50% of the population and you'll likely get civil war or a coup. My view is that in democracies, roughly half the population is being gently ignored, just enough to not cause major unrest. Good luck if you are on the wrong side. In a place like China, the government will try really hard to please as many people as possible. Flipside is they will deal very harshly with the minority that threatens the government. And it works because most people just want a comfortable life.

@Green Hat Lol, as if they didn't have non-stop civil wars when the center was weak. China most development happened when there was strong central government. All of China golden era is when central government was strong and none when central government was weak. Even in present time, I think China has done quite good for themselves under a strong central government. They are just behind US.

​@Crish Hari China, under "strong" unified central government CCP control, has suffered THE WORST deprivations and catastrophes of its entire history, bar none. The "Great Leap?" The "Cultural Revolution"? No "civil war" even comes close to the body count under Mao and Crew. Strong government doesn't necessarily mean "security", just as decentralized government doesn't necessarily mean "lack of security". Learning new things is fun, isn't it?

But their reasoning for hating China is different. A lot of different countries start hating China nowadays for its government, but Japan always had bad sentiment with China no matter what, politically or in history. They’re not wrong this time but you can’t trust them to have a fair view

@Wandering Right on the money. Actually, Japan's government is wrong, it is in no position to say anything, consider it NEVER has FORMALLY apologized to China, still attempting to suppress comfort women monuments around the world, shady human right violations under the table (e.g. 99% prosecution rate of its citizens). Even North Korea has more right to criticize China's government than Japan. Japan hates China is due to its hatred and jealousy, it failed to invade China, so hey why not start hating them before they hate us. But other than this, you are correct.

Best.

if this is best work, then i don't wanna watch his worst videos

Polymatter is a weird channel-name - why not change it aka improve it?

It's Xi and his faction's fault. Hu and his predecessors were Dengists. Xi is basically somewhere between a Dengist and a Maoist, though leaning way too close to Maoism for comfort.

Let's also understand it in a broader context: the current generation of leaders spent their youth during the Cultural Revolution, so instead of learning about how to properly interact with certain audiences, they were learning how to take pride in their nation and humiliate anyone perceived to not be doing so. Now that they've ascended to positions of leadership, we're seeing the effects of those unlearned lessons on a broader scale, and it's damaging the country's reputation immensely.

Exactly. Mari intala Chinese diplomats digajarataru ani nenu anukoledu. Malli Chinese emo memu india ni asalu pattinchukomu ani antu untaru. SMH

They literally chose to criticize China while the US capitol is being overrun and their are race rioters across the US with building burning down. Do you really think they would give a balanced critique of the US. The priority they give their coverage is very telling, logically anyway.

The same problem Europe and USA also have, they said China being more agressive while ignore the fact USA being more agressive at China when Trump came up

FINN ROLSTAD I do live in the US and I have traveled Asia and know many Chinese students from my college years. The capitol was attacked by citizens and 100s of millions of dollars worth of buildings have been burned down. More riots started this week. I saw some with my own eyes but all you have to do is look them up. I hope someone is paying you to lie Nothing else will come from your efforts, because you aren't fooling anyone.

FINN ROLSTAD capitol riots conducted by trump supporters are true, It happened just before Biden came to power lol. You can't say all media is faking the attack on capitol hill

@David Liu Found a wumao! Yes that happened and we didn't try to hide it like you guys would do. There are uprisings all the time in China, the Chinese press just chooses not to report on them to save face and "preserve harmony", all the riots we've had in America have no effect on the overwhelming majority of the country.

I think they're testing the carrier, can see no plane on board

It’s the new US Ford class carrier. It’s currently in it’s testing phase.

Boxer*

Wuxia puppy warrior diplomacy.

Noticed this too how their media has such predominant themes. Things like class, lineage, wealth, a lot of very materialistic and power based themes are ubiquitous. It does create for an underdog story but at the same time you can see behind the themes the running culture in the mainland.

Yeah, sometimes I consume Chinese media (novels/manhuas/dramas) and wonder if the working condition/day-to-day living in China is so shitty that they're always looking for this catharsis

Never thought someone would talk about this here, I honestly feel bad for authors there. Some good authors I have found write some great things but in just one second it's ruined by some China great or Han Chinese superior and MC racist like a Nazi to others. There was a fun sign in novel I was reading, it had cliche shit I didn't like but put up with but then out of nowhere the author put Japanese representatives in the chapter where he paints them as being disgusting without the people having done anything at all. The MC automatically judges them just by looking at them. I know what Japan did in the past was worst but Christ this was a mythological setting and should have no relation with real world history but somehow author brings it up. Any sympathy China had built crashes away bit by bit with shit like this.