It’s not just youth. If you’re a woman and over 30 it gets considerably harder to find a job, specially “good jobs”. At 35 and up it’s close to impossible.
@ Multiple reasons. For one they generally prefer younger women right out of university. Not married yet and won’t have kids for some time which means no maternity leave for a while. Also they are easier to exploit for lower wages. If you’re over 30 you also probably have kids which means you’re not as likely to work as hard. My wife’s friend is in HR for a small company and she said they don’t even look at candidates who are over 30.
Everyone knows the true youth unemployment rate is worse than the government says. My relatives in Shanghai told their children who recently graduated from US universities to not trturn to china as it just means unemployment. So now they are attending graduate schools and trying to date US citizens. This is what happens when you mint a ton of college graduates in an economy that's manufacturing based. It's almost like the one child policy, a plan with a totally foreseeable consequence, yet somehow nobody did anything until the damage has been done.
"Everyone knows" - you mean like 6 months ago, everyone on the Western internet knows China would collapse in 2 weeks, 30 days, by the end of the year, etc...? You China haters never learn do you? This is why the whole world is moving away from the you (with China in the lead) while y'all pathetic China haters on the internet jack each other off in your echo chamber while imagining China will collapse soon, lol
You have 31 million unemployed people. Why not experiment with human-generated power? Set up a program for them to cycle on Cycle machines paired with recharging lithium ion batteries. On one hand you save on burning coal or fossil fuels, on the other you're converting food to electrical energy.
The issue with this video is that a great deal of it is a projection of the issues and anxieties of the United States, and not as much what is actually going on in China. This is the issue with westerners making videos about China and not Chinese people.
9:50 this reminds me of how in yes minister, Sarah Humphrey states that compulsory education was extended by two years just reduce the unemployment rate
This is exactly what they are doing. Now the college students are encouraged to pursue graduate studies, and that keeps more people in school for 3 more years.
The AI and robotic industry will create hgher youth unemployment rate . for example, China's largest seaport, with fully automated mechanical loading and unloading, only needs eight technical personnel to operate, while the US seaport requires 2,000 dock workers.The benefits brought by high technology will drive political changes in human society.In other words, working 4 days a week is the trend of the future.
I bet many would prefer that to the 996 routine. I also figure that's incredibly rare to get a job contract and for them to only obligate you an hour a week. Unless it was done by government agencies to directly falsify their statistics. Since they've been known to do that
I spent a month in China this year and the amount of surveillance and number of police is shocking. It feels like 10% of all Chinese citizens must be cops.
@matiasj4327 when i was in Beijing there were so many police checkpoints. You also have to get your bag scanned at every subway station. I had my passport checked over a dozen times in a single day.
I used to be OK with Chinese cars. I used to think that the bad press they got was due to the West's poor relations with China, and that the problems can be avoided by proper care. But now my 19 month old MG3 with less than 30,000 km on it has been having constant problems since August this year. It has to be seen to be believed. Anyway the reason I brought this up is that if Chinese sales are falling, this might be a factor as to why.
MG is one of the cheapest car brands in China. Its cheapest car model sells at about 8000 us dollar in China. Chery is also one of the cheapest brands in China.
The five skills of controlling people from ancient China: 1. 愚民Keep the people ignorant 2. 弱民Keep the people weak. 3. 疲民Keep the people exhausted 4. 辱民Keep the people humiliated 5. 贫民Keep the people impoverished
1. Keep the people ignorant = indoctrination through media exposure 2. Keep the people weak = Making the elites richer by keeping the lower class poorer. 3. Keep the people exhausted = Exploitations of varying degree. 4. Keep the people humiliated = Punishes those who defied the agenda. 5. Keep the people impoverished = Homelessness. Sounds a lot like the states innit? 🤔
15:25 To be fair, he didn't say they were. Though he totally confused the two different use cases of "generation". While your next generation is your kids, when we're talking about generations in sociology(as he was showing) its more like 1-2 generations between parent and child. To be a millennial and have a zoomer child you'd probably have ended up on 16 and pregnant. 😂 I found that whole sequence poorly written.
@@hypercynic it is not idiotic. Gen Z have less wealth than gen x. Less rates of home ownership, higher unemployment... The struggles faced by a younger generation should not be written off because you fear growing old. Everyone grows old, it's a reality you have to face. Right now, there are 10yr olds born in 2014. 2014. They are in school. There will always be people younger than you. Especially in young countries outside of the west where the median age is of Gen z (20) rather than the median age of old western countries which frequently sits around 40+yrs.
That Chinese saying makes absolutely 0 sense. Other than human beings, almost all living creatures live in very hostile environment from the moment their are born to the moment they die (usually get eaten by another animal). It's called nature. evolution. Yet all animals want to survive and breed as much as they can, despite living in much harsher environment than humans. It's called evolution. So Chinese people like you who use that phrase are usually idiots, or 抱怨社会的穷屌丝, lol
Starting from lower income 80 years ago , now the “dictatotial Chinese regime’s” GDP per capita is five times of your democratic India. Something in your theory is not quite working there.
Lol as an Indonesian, not really, there is some fringe extremist group, such as HTI and FPI, but they are a very vocal minority and even then, they are already being abolished, and their group and their belief never won any elections anyway, moderates and nationalist remain on top in Indonesia, and moderate muslim groups such as MUI and NU are still the mind and heart of the entire muslim population. Indonesians aren't getting more religious, that is just your own feelings, with 60% of the populations living in urban areas ( even the villages feels far more like towns nowadays with their more diversified economy) the already large and still increasingly larger female participations in workforce and politics ( this alone is enough reason why your hypothesis is wrong) and the downward trend of marriage and fertility rate is enough.
@@briantarigan7685nah, my cousins and one of my sister always go to school or workplace with hijab and when I asked why they answered that it's the social expectation. Mind you they don't use it at home or when going outside just in school or work. The only exception, my other sister, don't use hijab because she works in a Chindo dominant company
@@briantarigan7685 I've been visiting Jakarta for decades. The Overton window on what's normal has definitely been moving to Saudi-fication. If you watch old videos of Indonesia in 80s and 90s, it feels more free and diverse than it is now. Suharto left a power vacuum that was quickly filled by religious leaders.
@@shinqqing5161 you are delusional, you are going to use that anecdotal super subjective example as a representative for the whole nation? I was also a high school student in state owned high school 4-6 years ago, mind you, that's the days when FPI still exist and famous and ahok case still fresh from the oven, and at that time many muslim girls i know didn't even use any hijab, the ones who wear it are being slack about it, and i say this as a Christian Indonesian myself. Indonesians aren't getting more religious, that is just your own feelings, with 60% of the populations living in urban areas ( even the villages feels far more like towns nowadays with their more diversified economy) the already large and still increasingly larger female participations in workforce and politics ( this alone is enough reason why your hypothesis is wrong) and the downward trend of marriage and fertility rate is enough.
Youth unemployment is not a challenge unique to China; many developed countries are grappling with similar issues. I know friends who graduated years ago and are still struggling to secure careers-one with an accounting degree and another in computer science. The competition is intense, with 100 applicants vying for just 50 available positions.
That is true, however it is nowhere near the scale that China is experiencing. Most developed countries have youth unemployment around 8-15%, but China's is almost certainly over 25% by now; even worse is the sheer size of China's population (12% of 18-29 y.o from a country of 30 million which is about average for Europe is very different from 25% of 18-29 y.o from 1.4 billion).
@@hongjian3714 In the long term yes, though recently it's towards the lower end of that scale. This analysis seems very flawed but then maybe the lack of a release from political change may bolster his argument.
I’m from Australia and I have a lot of cousins that are doing masters or PHDs or now have work visas in other countries. The reasoning for all of this is because they can’t find work in China, so they either continue studying or just move to another country.
What a bunch nonsense. Why keep talking about China when the west has much worse unemployment data? Many people in Canada are leaving for other countries to find work as well. Do you know that?
few months ago Bangladesh also went through a regime change because of unfair job quota system fueled by unemployment, inflation and other issues. The circumstances are very similar here....
I believe there is a method the CPC can do to reduce youth unemployment, increase consumer spending, and slightly bump up the fertility rate; abolish exploitative labour practices such as 996. If employers cannot squeeze a small group of workers for everything they have, they have to hire more workers, those workers now have more leisure time and so instead of spending their only free day in the week recharging, they can go out and dine, shop, and aren't so exhausted that they may now believe they have time to raise children.
The problem is consumerism empowers customers… who are also citizens. Allowing citizens to control supply of goods and services ultimately allows the same citizens to steer the underlying policies and the politicians who make them, and there’s a _lot_ of common animosities against the Party that can quickly get explosive once the Chinese people aren’t siloed and gaslit into thinking it’s all just personal problems they carry.
If only they'd employ that concept here in the states too. Not enough jobs? HAH workplace weekly hour caps. That'd get people rioting in no time huh. 😂
The French revolution started because alot of people were hungry due to systemic issues. It served to be one of the greatest expansions of civil liberties ever seen, despite most revolutionaries not truly caring for the high minded ideals of enlightenment thought, rather just to be able to eat.
Yes, but it also resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, which is why it's also referred to as the reign of terror, and allowed a power hungry dictator like Napoleon to rise to power who tried to conquer all of Europe.
@@0fficialdregs eh to be fair it did sticks in the end. the 5th has been the longest. and the fourth ended only because of the loss of colonial power which necessited a change in constitution to deal with at the time.
I am a bit dubious about this re the college system. Don’t the Korean, Japanese have something similar where its study study study and limited places available etc? Saying the CCP engineered this whole system seems to ignore neighbouring countries whom have a similar cultural outlook in terms of education
South Korea did it to create a very big skilled labour force under park's rule. Japan did for the same reason and prestige. Both of these economies were driving fast towards service/ technology based from the manufacturing one and both had same reasons to do so. High economic development in short pace. South Korea managed to do it on a certain extent before bad working conditions eventually triggered a revolution.. ..in case of japan Uncle Sam screwed it over.. So no unlike china these two countries had national modernization and economic growth in there mind to start upscaling there workers. China doing it while not transitioning to a service economy ( not in the beginning atleast) and on such a large scale, supports the view of the video. Also Japan and Korea did all of that way early then china did.
tl;dr- large youth unemployment is scary to chinese government. i’m surprised you didn’t include the news about 200k college students biking to kaifeng to buy dumplings and the government panicked and tried to stop it using excuses. ban biking at night, ban buying dumplings at night, or ban entry into kaifeng?
Halloween gatherings were cracked down in Shanghai too this year, with massive police presence and barricades on the designated roads, just to stop large groups of young people gathering. The demonstration on Urumqi Road is still fresh in their minds.
Government did not panic. With large numbers of students riding together, the influx of cyclists caused traffic disruptions, particularly as some groups blocked lanes or rode side by side. In response to the problem, both Zhengzhou and Kaifeng's traffic police announced temporary measures on Saturday afternoon. From 4 pm on Saturday to noon on Sunday, bike lanes along Zhengkai Avenue connecting the two cities will be closed to cyclists, they said in an announcement. Meanwhile, residents in Kaifeng reported issues such as bikes being improperly parked near city landmarks, making it difficult for people to walk in these areas. And in Zhengzhou, a shortage of bikes at metro stations left many commuters stranded. On Saturday, the three major bike-sharing platforms - Hellobike, DiDi Bike and Mobike - issued a joint notice stating that bikes will be locked if ridden outside of designated zones in Zhengzhou. It also warned people about the health risks of riding shared bikes for long distances. Also on Saturday, the Kaifeng government called on students to avoid riding in large groups, reminding them that "youth needs passion but also safety." It urged the students to take responsibility for their actions and consider public safety.
To be very fair, youth unemployment is larger everywhere, especially in countries which there's a higher rate of college education. If we truly consider the chinese youth unemployment as the real threat for the chinese government, then Spain, Greece, Sweden, Portugal would all be nearing upheaval, as their youth unemployment is higher than China's.
In all countries, there are two types of people, those with a global view (the few, often well educated on global matters) and those with a local view (majority). The latter are not interested in what's happening in other countries hence attribute all problems to their leader. This means concepts like fairness translates differently from one individual to another.
These countries have elected government. The upheaval occurs in elections. No such institution exists within China. Also as members of Schengen they can pursue work across Europe in member states. With China’s hukou system, many if not most are ineligible to leave their district or Canton.
They kind of ARE nearing upheaval. Except for Spain they're kinda okayish. They have massive social tensions. But of course, the problem here is the lack of release valve.
@@blakeyi6015 vote is voting the government. They will only effect the short term policy not how local companies and capitalist think. How many vote people need to experience to understand that a vote for 4 years cannot flex any long term issues
I generally like your videos, but this is a very shallow one. People in the east have different priorities and unemployment or GDP contraction would not only not weaken the CCP, but would rally the people in support of the ruling party. Happened in many other eastern countries, why not China. Xi is afraid of youth unemployment, yeah, of course. You clearly have an amazing grasp on Chinese politics. If the party doesn't fix the unemployment they will lose the next general election! Oh, wait... Instead of making "China is falling apart" videos year after year, maybe someone can finally look into why China goes full speed ahead and make "What we could learn from China" video. Even the title "What Xi Jinping Fears More than America" presupposes that Xi is afraid of America. Reality looks quite the opposite, the US is trying prevent China's growth with sanctions, like the ones on semiconductors, showing that's it's actually the US who is afraid of China. Any chance for another video on China but with a deeper and more complex analysis?
Hilarious to believe that the CCP could possible lose an election. They have elections in name only. We don’t want to learn from China, they stand opposed to the basic concepts of democratic republicanism my country is based on here in the States. Tankie boi doesn’t like criticism about gyna:((((((((
I somewhat agree that china videos tend to be hyperbolic, perhaps youth unemployment is not the end all be all, but all these videos pointing out china's problems aren't wrong in their core points. China's growth is slowing, geopolitical condition is getting worse, demographics are incredibly worrying. So idk what makes you think china is going "full steam ahead." Also your other point is silly, America's not wanting to give China expertise on semiconductors is them being afraid? Why would you give your geopolitical adversary 20+ years of technology for free? That's not fright that's common sense. And they are definitely afraid of the US lol, they've abandoned wolf warrior diplomacy, and tried to reset relations with the U.S. when Xi came to San Francisco. They're definitely the ones back-pedaling here.
@@Omer1996E.C different Indo-Aryan race (Bharat aka India and Europe) these people are sub servant for Dictatorship they not change and advance forward for society
There's nothing 'communist' about China except the aesthetics. What communist believes in capitalism, mass inequality, ultra-nationalism, racism, and colonialism? China is more Nazi than Communist.
The only thing communist about China is its ruling party's name. Their means of production are owned by rich douchebags who are in the party's good graces, similar to the US political system.
All the Chinese companies moved to Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Africa, Mexico and South America to avoid US Taxes and Tariffs. So, China ‘s business is still the same. She just changed the countries. China has income over $1 billion a day. Is that bad!?
In response to your point about the lack of foreign tourists, there are actually quite a lot foreign visitors in China at the moment. With Li Ziqi's return to UA-cam, the number of tourists coming to China is also expected to rise.
@@AL-lh2htnot true at all. So many ppl with tech degrees such as computer science can't find employment and you're talking about begging. Do you live on Mars or are you suffering from dementia?
No. Because you are not allowed to express your frustrations freely, either individuallyoras a group. You can't even have fun. CCP hates groups/gatherings, etc. They fear an uprising. It doesn't take much. Look for soup dumpling bike ride. Bored kids who decided they wanted to go on a mission: A 50km ride to find the home of the best soup dumplings in China. Posted on Weibo, other people joined in. 100,000 other people. It was just a fun thing. The authorities got nervous and cracked down on it. At its height 800,000 people joined in across the country. Some people did what no one is EVER allowed to do - express their views. Cycling is now banned.
20% youth unemployment are the official numbers In UK is officially a 14% In Germany is officially around 6% And in the USA is an 8% It may be the same issue, but if I may use an analogy from videogames, is like comparing Poison Level 1 in the case of USA, Germany, with Poison Level 3 in the case of China UK is very much in Poison 2
Just because is the same problem it doesn’t means is equally as bad, another example would be corruption, there is corruption in all countries (wich is a problem) but some countries are more corrupt than other, therefore those more corrupt countries have a bigger problem
@@Leo-ok3uj >Government thrown out in electoral landslide >Early elections called, government likely to be thrown out >Government thrown out in electoral landslide "hey," asks the Chinese student, "did you see what those guys do when the economy is bad?"
I'm not sure why this surprises anyone, I remember saying back in 2011 when everyone was saying China would take over the world, that their growth rate was unsustainable and would fall as they climbed the value chain. As to their property sector, in the long run its better for them that they deflate the bubble. Their property price to income ratio exceeds 40 in some cities (last I checked, prior to the correction of the last couple of years... probably still around 35). That's completely absurd and both pulls investment away from far more productive investment in the stock market and diminishes consumer spending, so it is a necessary correction which preferably will continue until the ratio falls below 10.
This sort of feels like the michael parenti black shirts and reds quote regarding capitalists' nations desire to paint any policy in the 'opposing camp' as intentionally designed to be subversive no matter what.... Sure college attendance went up during their financial crisis, but that happens here... China at that period was reaching levels of industrialization and specialization which would benefit from a better trained workforce and so improving education funding is a great investment both for short term economic stimulus and for long term economic construction.... and don't forget that even in the US college attendance rates increase during economic downturns because when people lose their jobs they instead try to reinvent and reinvest in themselves.... heres the quote if you're curious "During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regimes atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goodsdemonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them." -Michael Parenti, Black Shirts and Reds, Ch3. pg.41
First off: We do actually have supporting documentation from the opening of the Soviet archives. Especially with how soviets were an explicitly atheist state. Secondly: The fact is simply that China has a university enrollment rate that's incredibly high just generally at roughly 60% while a country such as India has roughly 28%. Especially when it was facing a potential issue with students and youth unemployment, it's absolutely a solution. Of course, the alternative is just doing nothing at all, an action at odds with the government's desire for stability.
@@buddermonger2000 did you actually think that I was refuting that the USSR was a soviet state?.... on your second point thank you for just proving my point I guess?
@@miguelbaca8086 No. What i said was that we proved the soviets did in fact have these motivations when these things occurred. Secondly, the point isn't proven. The implication is that it's a false narrative. It's simply reality.
aren't the problems adressed in the video pretty much everywhere in the deveoped world? Japan with it's price bubble, hikkikomori, demographic collapse and aging. ect?
I thought this was some kind of prank video, but after watching it, I realized it wasn't a joke, which made me feel even funnier. China's per capita consumption capacity has continued to rise, the R&D expenditure of enterprises has exceeded that of Europe, military equipment has increased geometrically, and the number of highly educated people has continued to rise. Yes, there are factories with large-scale unemployment, but they are replaced by fully automated robots, and people are flocking to the service industry, making grassroots living conditions better. Piercing the real estate foam in advance has avoided the real estate financial crisis and increased the ability to resist risks. Not to mention protests, we don't have low-quality refugees flooding into the country to compete with local people for jobs, nor do we have LGBT people interfering with social operations. China's decades long industrial dual circulation, both internal and external, is operating perfectly, and we are entering a new world at an unprecedented speed and pace. U.S.A? The old order? Tariffs? Whatever, we still have Africa, the Middle East, and South America.😆
@@grimkahn3775 Population tightening? Population decline is not an instant disappearance. When automation reaches a certain level, population is no longer a dividend, but a burden. China is now ready with energy storage solutions (accumulated experience in electric vehicle batteries), high-voltage transmission solutions (accumulated experience in large-scale hydropower plants and photovoltaic industries), drones and other unmanned equipment (already in use), and Pangu AI models (covering NLP (natural language processing), CV (computer vision), and scientific computing). These are all preparations made decades ago, waiting for today's arrival. We don't need billions of people to maintain productivity. Can you imagine a country that is just starting to have a population of billions, with a large number of young people able to enter factories, but can they compete with robots that work 24 hours a day? Robots do not require pensions, do not need rest, and will not make mistakes. If factories lack competitiveness, they will only go bankrupt, and the large number of unemployed young people will only become a burden and a source of chaos for society.As for slowing down, unlike other countries that have experienced decline due to the tide of the US dollar, China is currently undergoing a process of economic transformation. We no longer rely on real estate and have increased investment in emerging industries. You can check the official websites of local governments in China, which are all publicly available information.
Massive unemployment is every government's fear. People who haven't stayed in China do not realize the natural massive support that the CCP enjoys there. CCP's foundation isn't only anchored to the economic prosperitt, but the "social trauma", which China experienced. "Of course, the CCP took advantage of it and use it in their propaganda", but most Chinese, like the Vietnamese, are definitely contented by the current political structure of their country, regardless of how uncertain the economy is at this point.
Not sure how much this affects too, but from an outsider's perspective, the CCP has done an effective job at portraying themselves as the ones keeping outside forces from crippling China, in particular from the US.
If the CCP is loved so much, why is China essentially a fascist dictatorship? Why isn’t China a democracy like America, if the CCP thinks it’s genuinely popular and can win elections on its own merits?
Democracy came from the need of the property owners to protect their well beings. It was like this in ancient Athens, it was like this in the U.S. before the mid 19th century… it changed only since the Industrial Revolution into something we can recognize today. So yes, “it’s the Economy stupid” really is the Golden Rule to all democratic systems.
Im hearing a lot of China population decline and lack of people getting married and having babies. How true is this? Perhaps someone from China can give some insight on this?
kindergartens are closing down and merging together, teachers get retrained on middle school or laid off. This crisis will hit hard in the next ten years.
So you got the graphic a bit wrong Boomers are the parents of Millennials not grandparents and Gex X is the parents of Gen z. Millennials are the parents of gen Alpha, I a millennial dad have two gen alpha sons and my father and mother are both boomers and that's the same with all my millennial friends maybe the youngest/oldest of millennials have gen x/different gen as parents but I doubt there are many the majority of the time it follows that.
It depends entirely on what age you are when you start having kids, and how late into your life you continue having kids (if you have multiple). Men can have children into their 70s, and even women who have a much narrower window, still have about 20 years or so. My mother's Gen X and I'm a Millennial. But I've got younger brothers who are Gen Z, and a brother who is Gen Alpha.
@@adamperdue3178 I said there may be differences in the younger or old ones but generally it does follow what I was saying the majority of the time. I have an economics degree and we did demographics in marketing classes and that was the rule of thumb for advertising.
I feel that all these high unemployment rates are because of young people being told to find their "dream job", or a "job that get you lots of money". There's only so many doctors, engineers and artists you'll ever need. There will always be low income workers, we just need to make sure that there is a good work-life balance and no body is a starving homeless.
Wasn't actually Lenin though it's a common misattribution. Also historically it's been pretty wrong/incredibly rare, rather it's the opposite - a well fed populace is more likely to uprise for ideological reasons.
@@bobbingfortoast1912 Yeah famine can actually solidify power. North Korean escapee Yeonmi Park said nobody in her village ever talked about or thought about revolution. All they thought about was food. They didn't have the strength to march on Pyongyang.
@@bobbingfortoast1912 lmfao, people never uprises for ideological reasons, peoples uprises because of hunger, anger, and overall disatisfaction from conditions of living. A well fed populace will never uprise, that's why governments trying to improve economics, housing, logitistics, etc., not because they care about you. And historically, it's always been like that.
@ I think historically it’s true that most revolutions are due to ideological movements, however in truly repressive societies like the DPRK and, increasingly, the PRC economic desperation and hunger are going to be the drivers. They don’t have the luxury of forming organised movements.
You do know that in the 90s China was still PREDOMINANTLY agaraian right? Your model of parents having the feeling of happiness of fastest economic growth during 90s and their kids not happy nowadays simply doesn't stand still. The quality of life and the bottom line of that has been improving.
I like how you assume China is going to tell the world how much it spends on its military. Ridiculous to imagine that you would have access to the real number.
If one uses the official numbers they’ll call you out for trusting them If one doesn’t uses the official numbers they’ll call you out for making stuff up
Have to admit, kudos to the young people in China for voicing their dissent - even under a one-party dictatorship. Really wish more of my home country's people take a page from the above and stop squandering the rights we do have.
I don’t like the Chinese government… but when l see industrial China (companies like huawei, byd, TikTok, dji…) it makes me question all the naysaying leveled towards China… Particularly, when l see all the insults in the comments… it is very telling.
If the same problems can appear in both china and the US, two countries with vastly different political systems, then it's not a "democracy" issue if you ask me, giving free elections to the people of china doesn't mean that suddenly new jobs will appear and that their wages will increase. It's all economics and the use of human resources. Becoming a democracy would only change the flag and emblem. China is still there, the packaging is just slightly different, but it's still china.
Some stupid people like to think people protest for shit like Liberty, freedom or democracy😂 It's always "I don't have much food"..."my kids are hungry" or "I don't have a job"...😢
Wait a second, you said foreign investment is down ! . But aren't investors pumping money into china more and more by selling in young markets like india ??
He is one of the more fair analytical sources on China to be honest; None of the "Xi Jinping is our lord and savior that will tear down the hypocritical west" or "China will collapse in X number of days because Y reason".
The unemployment rate statistics only include people with city household registrations, not including the migrant workers from rural areas. The truth is much worse.
Employment stats include migrant workers as they come under the Urban umbrella. Migrant workers also pay taxes and health insurance. China had about 295 million such workers by the end of 2022, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. More than half are employed in the service sector, and about 70 million of them work outside their home provinces, the bureau said
4:45 comparing China's GDP per capita in 1998 to mali's in 2024 is the dumbest thing I've ever heard, not to mention above the chart you wrote "GDP" not "GDP per capita"
Why is it dumb? The lack of "per capita" on the graph should be fixed, but why is it dumb to compare China's 1998 per capita GDP to Mali's current per capita GDP? If anything, it makes the comparison better, because people are going to have a better idea of where Mali is today than where Mali was ~25 years ago.
@@adamperdue3178Russia's GDP per capita in 1998 was $1800, China at $800. Now look at that graph again. You really don't see what's wrong? Is it really that much of a gap between Russia and China?
@@Grayson_Wu "Is it really that much of a gap between Russia and China?" Yes, there is that much of a gap between 2024 Russia and 1998 China. You seem to be interpreting this as if it's some sort of slight against China for saying that China in 1998 was not as powerful as Russia is today (at least on a per-capita basis), but that's clearly not the point of the comparison.
in 1989 china's gdp was $300 billion, china's gdp per cap was $300 USD poorer than most countries in sub saharan africa. in 2023 china's gdp is $18.3 trillion, China's gdp per cap is $13,000 USD. china is no longer a impoverished 3rd world country, it is now a upper middle income country that is $1000 gdp per cap away from transiting from middle income status into a high income gdp country.and it is only a couple more years away from attaining $20,000 gdp per cap, the gdp of highly developed countries like Singapore, taiwan or south korea back in the 2000s and 90s.. revolutions and uprisings have almost never happened in developed countries in modern history.....that is because they only happen in places of extreme poverty, hopelessness and squalor. even the gdp per cap of Xinjiang has risen by nearly 250% in the last 10 years to $10,000 usd. civil wars and uprisings happen in countries like myanmar or eygpt.....not in countries whose gdp per cap is $13,000 and nearly half a billion people live in provinces whose gdp per cap is almost $20,000 to $30,000 usd..... no matter how much frustration or discontentment people might feel in highly developed or even semi developed countries, life is too comfortable for most people in these countries to violence and chaos and even take up arms and fight wars in an attempt to
You eat two steaks. I eat none. Steak consumption per capita: 1 steak. You earn $1,300,000 . Ten thousand people people survive with just $130... GDP per capita: $13,000. GDP is a dumb and wrong way of measuring how people are doing.
@@clgr1323wrong, gdp is a good enough way to measure how people are doing. hardly there is any other way better than gdp, and ur example only exist for small group and high inequality, which not exactly the case for china.
China's GDP per capita adjusted by PPP is at about the world median at 21.4k. It's roughly comparable to Bosnia, Columbia, Georgia, and Belarus. None of these countries are politically stable by virtue of their standard of living.
Let me add that China's experienced standard of living for the majority is much lower than nominal GDP numbers would suggest. Compared to most nations, China spends very little on entitlements like healthcare and pension, which improves quality of life, and substantially more on the internal and external security and defense apparatus. Chinese government spending is all about "guns, and not butter".
@@Nainara32 if u look at gdp adjusted for purchasing power parity or ppp, China's gdp already eclipsed US back in 2019.....its already at $37 trillion almost 40 percent higher than US....a USD of spending power goes a long long way in china. a dollar equivalent of yuan in china can buy u so much more.i mean take for example a 20km cab ride in america or any developed country would easily cost u close to $50 if not more during rush hour.....in china its less than $10. i have no idea what ur talking about all about guns and not butter, did u even watch the video?in the very first 60 seconds of polymatter's video he already mentioned china's military expenditure and showed u a graph of it, china literally spends 1/5th the amount of money US spends on the military, US spends almost doubles as a percentage of her gdp almost 3.4% compared to china's 1.7%. that is with america already reaching record levels of debt nearly 35 trillion and deficit almost 1.7 trillion a year, her debt goes up 3 trillion a year or 10 trillion every 3 years and her cost of borrrowing is already out of control almost 4.5% and she still shows no signs of slowing down her spending....913 billion a year on her millitary are u serious? china doesnt care? have u seen china's cities?how incredibly well organised and planned they are,efficient and orderly. u think a country that doesnt care about her people and society would build a 14,000km hsr network connecting the country and every province?and hundreds of metro lines with the most intricate lines and hundreds of stations? efficient public transportation, efficient logistics for a efficient economy. everything in china is efficient and affordable including her healthcare, its not like america spending nearly 4 times per capita on healthcare and yet tens of millions of america still cannot afford healthcare and access to good affordable healthcare because all the policies are shaped by government and politicians to allow and enable the healthcare providers, insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies to gorge american taxpayers!!!!! and america's transportation and public infrastructure is in shambles because the automobile and oil companies dictate and shape national policy through powerful lobbies and u are living in a country where the state controls and dictates what the corporations and uber rich does and craft state and national policies in the country's best interests not in a world where corporations and capitalism controls the government and the country!!!! i dunno how people like u are literally allowed to lie or deliberate spread FALSE INFORMATION,practically everything u claimed is wrong, u are literally spreading PURE PROPAGANDA.
Honestly, the housing market declining in value would have been fine......... if it wasn't for 70% of investments in property. It's one of the few things the state allows you to invest in more easily, so there's a ridiculous amount of middle-class wealth that's just destroyed. Not to mention, many of it is tied in buildings that aren't even finished developing yet. Also, to give how stark of a contrast there is between the generations in China, there were more babies born in 1990-1991 than the entirety of the 1980's. The entire 90's generation have to work the longest hours, work the most overtime, get social security at the latest age of all generations, and, now, have the least to show for it all.
agreed. I made a statement once that China will become the most powerful nation on earth if they can resolve the issue with youth unemployment....but solved in 5-8 years. I think they can do this if by copying current US industries and products they don't have yet. For example, US food and beverage companies. US entertainment movie, music, companies especially video games. Make the Chinese learn and copy Western culture for new products.
One thing the CCP has going for it is that Chinese (and Eastern more generally) culture is much more communal / conformist. This leads to people putting up with poor governance a lot more than the West, which is competitive / individualist.
I agree with the 1st half, not so sure about the 2nd half. USA govt system n longer seems fit for purpose - how many times has govt shutdown nearly occurred? The last time was when the republicans had a majority and yet some 13 of them decides to hold the govt budget to ransom
@@graham1034 I guess USA is part of the west. As they are more individualistic their people should tolerate poor governance less and change it. USA governance seem to be go the other way though. In fact it feels like they (politicians) are just seeking to exploits loopholes rather than fixing it and the people don’t seem to be doing anything about it
I'm finding a lot of different figures online, but most of the different figures I'm finding for the US have different figures for China as well, so I'm assuming there's differences in methodology. For example I'm looking at Clockify which has the US at 1,892 hours per year, which is roughly at that 1,900 figure you're claiming, but the same source has China at 2,392 hours per year, which is well above Polymatter's claim of 2,200. The argument being made doesn't really hinge on the minute specifics of this figure; the US workers clocking in at 1,900 hours per year vs. 1,800 and Chinese workers clocking in at 2,400 vs. 2,200 doesn't create a meaningful difference in the bigger picture.
I also don’t get why some ppl try so hard to defend the CCP and see any criticism as an attack on china as a whole. China has a wonderful history and culture that has been tainted by their government. Its government is singlehandedly their n1 global image destroyer. The Chinese ppl deserve better
US debt is rising exponentially and BRICS are looking for alternative to dollar to conduct international trade meaning nobody buys american bonds anymore. If anything, this video should be titled how bad time is coming for americans 😂😂
@@roxylius7550 has nothing to do with debt lmao, don't talk about topics you don't understand. If america has bad time coming it's because they willingly collapse their hegemony because they are mind broken by culture war.
It’s not just youth. If you’re a woman and over 30 it gets considerably harder to find a job, specially “good jobs”. At 35 and up it’s close to impossible.
Why?
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@ Multiple reasons. For one they generally prefer younger women right out of university. Not married yet and won’t have kids for some time which means no maternity leave for a while. Also they are easier to exploit for lower wages. If you’re over 30 you also probably have kids which means you’re not as likely to work as hard. My wife’s friend is in HR for a small company and she said they don’t even look at candidates who are over 30.
@@jiff2323 I guess companies are putting too much focus on "higher education" if they are obsessed with university degrees and stuff like that.
Is this in china or in general?
Everyone knows the true youth unemployment rate is worse than the government says. My relatives in Shanghai told their children who recently graduated from US universities to not trturn to china as it just means unemployment. So now they are attending graduate schools and trying to date US citizens. This is what happens when you mint a ton of college graduates in an economy that's manufacturing based. It's almost like the one child policy, a plan with a totally foreseeable consequence, yet somehow nobody did anything until the damage has been done.
"Everyone knows" - you mean like 6 months ago, everyone on the Western internet knows China would collapse in 2 weeks, 30 days, by the end of the year, etc...?
You China haters never learn do you?
This is why the whole world is moving away from the you (with China in the lead) while y'all pathetic China haters on the internet jack each other off in your echo chamber while imagining China will collapse soon, lol
did china collapse yet
You have 31 million unemployed people. Why not experiment with human-generated power? Set up a program for them to cycle on Cycle machines paired with recharging lithium ion batteries. On one hand you save on burning coal or fossil fuels, on the other you're converting food to electrical energy.
@@sturmbrecher88 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@sturmbrecher88That sounds like slavery with extra steps
He's losing the mandate of heaven
The issue with this video is that a great deal of it is a projection of the issues and anxieties of the United States, and not as much what is actually going on in China. This is the issue with westerners making videos about China and not Chinese people.
@@robert-rv8loso would you say the problems listed in the video are over dramatic?
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9:50 this reminds me of how in yes minister, Sarah Humphrey states that compulsory education was extended by two years just reduce the unemployment rate
This is exactly what they are doing. Now the college students are encouraged to pursue graduate studies, and that keeps more people in school for 3 more years.
*Sir Humphrey
"Damn it Xi Jinping, Yes Minister is a TV comedy, not a manual on how to fuck your country!"
The AI and robotic industry will create hgher youth unemployment rate . for example, China's largest seaport, with fully automated mechanical loading and unloading, only needs eight technical personnel to operate, while the US seaport requires 2,000 dock workers.The benefits brought by high technology will drive political changes in human society.In other words, working 4 days a week is the trend of the future.
@@Wangleineo yes, you are right. AI and robotic industry requires more workers with MSc. or PHD .
By the way, by Chinese standards, you will be considered 'employed' as long as you have done 1 hour paid work per week. Yes, that's 1 hour per week.
Made up
The US employment system also considers all that have "work" no matter the amount of hours as employed as well.
I bet many would prefer that to the 996 routine. I also figure that's incredibly rare to get a job contract and for them to only obligate you an hour a week. Unless it was done by government agencies to directly falsify their statistics. Since they've been known to do that
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@@Lena-vw6yebyt the US love it people, ching is worth
I spent a month in China this year and the amount of surveillance and number of police is shocking. It feels like 10% of all Chinese citizens must be cops.
Every ching fear the Aryan race
You should see NYC
@matiasj4327 when i was in Beijing there were so many police checkpoints. You also have to get your bag scanned at every subway station. I had my passport checked over a dozen times in a single day.
Westerners hate China but can't stop thinking about China.
Living in yo heads rent free, lol
Remember their cops dont have any weapon
I used to be OK with Chinese cars. I used to think that the bad press they got was due to the West's poor relations with China, and that the problems can be avoided by proper care. But now my 19 month old MG3 with less than 30,000 km on it has been having constant problems since August this year. It has to be seen to be believed.
Anyway the reason I brought this up is that if Chinese sales are falling, this might be a factor as to why.
Same experience with my Cherry car before so i sold it as scrap
MG is one of the cheapest car brands in China. Its cheapest car model sells at about 8000 us dollar in China. Chery is also one of the cheapest brands in China.
You get what you paid. Don’t paint all Chinese cars with one stroke
First polymatter video in years not mainly advertising another part on nebula, thanks
What’s the problem with that?
@@colbyn-wadmanprobably being poor
Quality videos don't come for free
If you couldn't tell, this video is already paid by congress ;)
@@sonayyalim CCP bot
The five skills of controlling people from ancient China:
1. 愚民Keep the people ignorant
2. 弱民Keep the people weak.
3. 疲民Keep the people exhausted
4. 辱民Keep the people humiliated
5. 贫民Keep the people impoverished
1. Keep the people ignorant = indoctrination through media exposure
2. Keep the people weak = Making the elites richer by keeping the lower class poorer.
3. Keep the people exhausted = Exploitations of varying degree.
4. Keep the people humiliated = Punishes those who defied the agenda.
5. Keep the people impoverished = Homelessness.
Sounds a lot like the states innit? 🤔
The USA has adopted this and utilized it on a global scale.
你非常了解中国的统治者
Thats why US is the best student of chinese.
Sounds like you just described what the US is doing to it's people lmao.
4:26 1877 was a great year for college enrollment
what happened in 1877? Google says a bunch of revolts?
@maryamwaqar7648 The graph has a mistake going from 1971 to 1877
Solution to all problems: travel back in time
Mao died in 1976, ending the cultural revolution, colleges admission then skyrocketed.
lol
Gen X is mid 70's not millennials.
15:25 To be fair, he didn't say they were. Though he totally confused the two different use cases of "generation". While your next generation is your kids, when we're talking about generations in sociology(as he was showing) its more like 1-2 generations between parent and child. To be a millennial and have a zoomer child you'd probably have ended up on 16 and pregnant. 😂
I found that whole sequence poorly written.
@@hypercynic it is not idiotic. Gen Z have less wealth than gen x. Less rates of home ownership, higher unemployment... The struggles faced by a younger generation should not be written off because you fear growing old. Everyone grows old, it's a reality you have to face. Right now, there are 10yr olds born in 2014. 2014. They are in school. There will always be people younger than you. Especially in young countries outside of the west where the median age is of Gen z (20) rather than the median age of old western countries which frequently sits around 40+yrs.
He isnt very smart
When the living environment is harsh, animals will automatically reduce their fertility, let alone humans.😶🌫
That Chinese saying makes absolutely 0 sense.
Other than human beings, almost all living creatures live in very hostile environment from the moment their are born to the moment they die (usually get eaten by another animal).
It's called nature. evolution.
Yet all animals want to survive and breed as much as they can, despite living in much harsher environment than humans.
It's called evolution.
So Chinese people like you who use that phrase are usually idiots, or 抱怨社会的穷屌丝, lol
In that case western ccountries must be really harsh to live in considering the West has among the lowest birthrates on the planet.
The irony of this is that China's birthrate was sky high during the cultural revolution
@@quzunarqozi5171look in the mirror mate
@@davidk.d.7591still have to account child death rate as well
What any dictator fears most: his own people.
Specifically his own military.
What a plot twist, thank you for posting this comment. Now I don't have to waste 20+ minutes listening to this dribble.
@@TimmyJohnson-n5p It isn't drivel. It's worth watching, honestly.
@@spaghettiking7312It is 24/7 propaganda.
Starting from lower income 80 years ago , now the “dictatotial Chinese regime’s” GDP per capita is five times of your democratic India.
Something in your theory is not quite working there.
Speaking of Indonesia, can you talk about how the country has gotten much more religious since the president's overthrow in the late '90s?
Lol as an Indonesian, not really, there is some fringe extremist group, such as HTI and FPI, but they are a very vocal minority and even then, they are already being abolished, and their group and their belief never won any elections anyway, moderates and nationalist remain on top in Indonesia, and moderate muslim groups such as MUI and NU are still the mind and heart of the entire muslim population.
Indonesians aren't getting more religious, that is just your own feelings, with 60% of the populations living in urban areas ( even the villages feels far more like towns nowadays with their more diversified economy) the already large and still increasingly larger female participations in workforce and politics ( this alone is enough reason why your hypothesis is wrong) and the downward trend of marriage and fertility rate is enough.
@@briantarigan7685nah, my cousins and one of my sister always go to school or workplace with hijab and when I asked why they answered that it's the social expectation. Mind you they don't use it at home or when going outside just in school or work. The only exception, my other sister, don't use hijab because she works in a Chindo dominant company
@@briantarigan7685 don't let yourselves get poisoned by the terrorists lovers in Malaysia
@@briantarigan7685 I've been visiting Jakarta for decades. The Overton window on what's normal has definitely been moving to Saudi-fication. If you watch old videos of Indonesia in 80s and 90s, it feels more free and diverse than it is now. Suharto left a power vacuum that was quickly filled by religious leaders.
@@shinqqing5161 you are delusional, you are going to use that anecdotal super subjective example as a representative for the whole nation? I was also a high school student in state owned high school 4-6 years ago, mind you, that's the days when FPI still exist and famous and ahok case still fresh from the oven, and at that time many muslim girls i know didn't even use any hijab, the ones who wear it are being slack about it, and i say this as a Christian Indonesian myself.
Indonesians aren't getting more religious, that is just your own feelings, with 60% of the populations living in urban areas ( even the villages feels far more like towns nowadays with their more diversified economy) the already large and still increasingly larger female participations in workforce and politics ( this alone is enough reason why your hypothesis is wrong) and the downward trend of marriage and fertility rate is enough.
Youth unemployment is not a challenge unique to China; many developed countries are grappling with similar issues. I know friends who graduated years ago and are still struggling to secure careers-one with an accounting degree and another in computer science. The competition is intense, with 100 applicants vying for just 50 available positions.
50? Damn thats alot, its more like 15 irl
2:1 job competition is insanely good lmao. Even 15 is normal, you're supposed to relentlessly apply to places.
That is true, however it is nowhere near the scale that China is experiencing. Most developed countries have youth unemployment around 8-15%, but China's is almost certainly over 25% by now; even worse is the sheer size of China's population (12% of 18-29 y.o from a country of 30 million which is about average for Europe is very different from 25% of 18-29 y.o from 1.4 billion).
@@deathdrone6988 Spain and Italy has youth unemployment of 20-40%.
@@hongjian3714 In the long term yes, though recently it's towards the lower end of that scale. This analysis seems very flawed but then maybe the lack of a release from political change may bolster his argument.
CCP: You can only have 1 child
Chinese people: OK
CCP 45 years later when China's population starts crashing: *pikachu face*
Ah yes, population control. There is a reason why it's considered a callsign of the most brutal regimes on earth.
And now that both youth unemployment and cost of living are high, and savings are crashing,
CCP: you can have more kids
People: nah, we're good
Even so little children there is still unemployment.
And now all the aborted and sent to USA female children…
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Seeing a kid who looked 14 on that protest clip sent shivers down my spine. I wish the best to all Chinese.
@@slaw1448That was a college student
I’m from Australia and I have a lot of cousins that are doing masters or PHDs or now have work visas in other countries. The reasoning for all of this is because they can’t find work in China, so they either continue studying or just move to another country.
That because the winners stay in china and loosers go to outside china to compete.
What a bunch nonsense. Why keep talking about China when the west has much worse unemployment data? Many people in Canada are leaving for other countries to find work as well. Do you know that?
few months ago Bangladesh also went through a regime change because of unfair job quota system fueled by unemployment, inflation and other issues. The circumstances are very similar here....
Except that protest has essentially been overtaken by religious fanatics and the ongoing slow genocide of the Hindu population is worsening
South Asians are fearless unlike East Asians .
I watch Chinese language videos on UA-cam and I'm always amused by people saying china banned winne the Pooh, as Winnie the Pooh is all over china.
Ok Wumao. You mean Xi Jinping is all over China. 🐻🍯
Don't let sinophobia stop logic bro
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It's muricans what do you expect
He's the president of China, of course he's everywhere.
I believe there is a method the CPC can do to reduce youth unemployment, increase consumer spending, and slightly bump up the fertility rate; abolish exploitative labour practices such as 996. If employers cannot squeeze a small group of workers for everything they have, they have to hire more workers, those workers now have more leisure time and so instead of spending their only free day in the week recharging, they can go out and dine, shop, and aren't so exhausted that they may now believe they have time to raise children.
The problem is consumerism empowers customers… who are also citizens. Allowing citizens to control supply of goods and services ultimately allows the same citizens to steer the underlying policies and the politicians who make them, and there’s a _lot_ of common animosities against the Party that can quickly get explosive once the Chinese people aren’t siloed and gaslit into thinking it’s all just personal problems they carry.
Lol. China can't do it. They can't stand to lose manufacturing to the west so they can better wage war.
@@doujinflipironically they’re more atomized in a communist country
9 to 3 then 3 to 9 shifts every on essential industry has no thirst shift hours
If only they'd employ that concept here in the states too. Not enough jobs? HAH workplace weekly hour caps. That'd get people rioting in no time huh. 😂
The French revolution started because alot of people were hungry due to systemic issues. It served to be one of the greatest expansions of civil liberties ever seen, despite most revolutionaries not truly caring for the high minded ideals of enlightenment thought, rather just to be able to eat.
I do recall france is on their 5th republic?
Yes, but it also resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, which is why it's also referred to as the reign of terror, and allowed a power hungry dictator like Napoleon to rise to power who tried to conquer all of Europe.
@@0fficialdregs eh to be fair it did sticks in the end. the 5th has been the longest. and the fourth ended only because of the loss of colonial power which necessited a change in constitution to deal with at the time.
can you point me to the food security data about China please?
I am a bit dubious about this re the college system. Don’t the Korean, Japanese have something similar where its study study study and limited places available etc? Saying the CCP engineered this whole system seems to ignore neighbouring countries whom have a similar cultural outlook in terms of education
South Korea did it to create a very big skilled labour force under park's rule. Japan did for the same reason and prestige.
Both of these economies were driving fast towards service/ technology based from the manufacturing one and both had same reasons to do so.
High economic development in short pace.
South Korea managed to do it on a certain extent before bad working conditions eventually triggered a revolution..
..in case of japan Uncle Sam screwed it over..
So no unlike china these two countries had national modernization and economic growth in there mind to start upscaling there workers.
China doing it while not transitioning to a service economy ( not in the beginning atleast) and on such a large scale, supports the view of the video.
Also Japan and Korea did all of that way early then china did.
You’re way off the mark thinking that Chinese universities teach students to think critically. That’s not what the education system there is about.
Hasn't been like that in the west for a few decades now either
He lost the Mandate of Heaven, dude about to lose his head...
CCP never had the Mandate in the first place
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."
Is that the bite of '87?
@@rasiah2415Wizard of oz
tl;dr- large youth unemployment is scary to chinese government. i’m surprised you didn’t include the news about 200k college students biking to kaifeng to buy dumplings and the government panicked and tried to stop it using excuses. ban biking at night, ban buying dumplings at night, or ban entry into kaifeng?
Were they bans or were they called for crowd control? Cause from the news I saw, there were no mentions of mass arrests.
Halloween gatherings were cracked down in Shanghai too this year, with massive police presence and barricades on the designated roads, just to stop large groups of young people gathering. The demonstration on Urumqi Road is still fresh in their minds.
Government did not panic.
With large numbers of students riding together, the influx of cyclists caused traffic disruptions, particularly as some groups blocked lanes or rode side by side.
In response to the problem, both Zhengzhou and Kaifeng's traffic police announced temporary measures on Saturday afternoon. From 4 pm on Saturday to noon on Sunday, bike lanes along Zhengkai Avenue connecting the two cities will be closed to cyclists, they said in an announcement.
Meanwhile, residents in Kaifeng reported issues such as bikes being improperly parked near city landmarks, making it difficult for people to walk in these areas. And in Zhengzhou, a shortage of bikes at metro stations left many commuters stranded.
On Saturday, the three major bike-sharing platforms - Hellobike, DiDi Bike and Mobike - issued a joint notice stating that bikes will be locked if ridden outside of designated zones in Zhengzhou. It also warned people about the health risks of riding shared bikes for long distances.
Also on Saturday, the Kaifeng government called on students to avoid riding in large groups, reminding them that "youth needs passion but also safety." It urged the students to take responsibility for their actions and consider public safety.
@@martinzihlmann822
They were blocking the roads and those that refused to move were arrested.
3:23 That mouse pad is next level
Mouse carpet 😂
At this point you are just stretching the reality to fit your narrative
To be very fair, youth unemployment is larger everywhere, especially in countries which there's a higher rate of college education. If we truly consider the chinese youth unemployment as the real threat for the chinese government, then Spain, Greece, Sweden, Portugal would all be nearing upheaval, as their youth unemployment is higher than China's.
In all countries, there are two types of people, those with a global view (the few, often well educated on global matters) and those with a local view (majority). The latter are not interested in what's happening in other countries hence attribute all problems to their leader. This means concepts like fairness translates differently from one individual to another.
These countries have elected government. The upheaval occurs in elections. No such institution exists within China. Also as members of Schengen they can pursue work across Europe in member states. With China’s hukou system, many if not most are ineligible to leave their district or Canton.
They kind of ARE nearing upheaval. Except for Spain they're kinda okayish. They have massive social tensions. But of course, the problem here is the lack of release valve.
@@buddermonger2000 here is where? Spain? Europe? China? US?
@@blakeyi6015 vote is voting the government. They will only effect the short term policy not how local companies and capitalist think. How many vote people need to experience to understand that a vote for 4 years cannot flex any long term issues
These are the best videos on UA-cam, and I watch so many fantastic UA-camrs. I genuinely get really giddy each new installment. Thank you!
I generally like your videos, but this is a very shallow one. People in the east have different priorities and unemployment or GDP contraction would not only not weaken the CCP, but would rally the people in support of the ruling party. Happened in many other eastern countries, why not China.
Xi is afraid of youth unemployment, yeah, of course. You clearly have an amazing grasp on Chinese politics. If the party doesn't fix the unemployment they will lose the next general election! Oh, wait...
Instead of making "China is falling apart" videos year after year, maybe someone can finally look into why China goes full speed ahead and make "What we could learn from China" video.
Even the title "What Xi Jinping Fears More than America" presupposes that Xi is afraid of America. Reality looks quite the opposite, the US is trying prevent China's growth with sanctions, like the ones on semiconductors, showing that's it's actually the US who is afraid of China.
Any chance for another video on China but with a deeper and more complex analysis?
Also China doesn't exactly have the demographics for a revolution even if the youth wanted one. Really bad video.
What we could learn from China: Novi Sad, Serbia
Hilarious to believe that the CCP could possible lose an election. They have elections in name only. We don’t want to learn from China, they stand opposed to the basic concepts of democratic republicanism my country is based on here in the States. Tankie boi doesn’t like criticism about gyna:((((((((
@@AlbertBasedman wat?
I somewhat agree that china videos tend to be hyperbolic, perhaps youth unemployment is not the end all be all, but all these videos pointing out china's problems aren't wrong in their core points. China's growth is slowing, geopolitical condition is getting worse, demographics are incredibly worrying. So idk what makes you think china is going "full steam ahead."
Also your other point is silly, America's not wanting to give China expertise on semiconductors is them being afraid? Why would you give your geopolitical adversary 20+ years of technology for free? That's not fright that's common sense. And they are definitely afraid of the US lol, they've abandoned wolf warrior diplomacy, and tried to reset relations with the U.S. when Xi came to San Francisco. They're definitely the ones back-pedaling here.
Posted this right after the CCP was a little spooked after 10,000 students started biking at night
Every ching fear the Aryan race
The students are start revolution but still they barbaric mindset
"Calm down, it's just dumplings, just dumplings, just dumplings" said Xi
@@Omer1996E.C different Indo-Aryan race (Bharat aka India and Europe) these people are sub servant for Dictatorship they not change and advance forward for society
@@FlyingFishXYZ "The students are start revolution but still they barbaric mindset" 😭😭😭
It might not be a bad idea to be unemployed in communist state. They were not meant to be capitalists.
There's nothing 'communist' about China except the aesthetics. What communist believes in capitalism, mass inequality, ultra-nationalism, racism, and colonialism? China is more Nazi than Communist.
They are not meant to be taken care of either.
What people call 'communism' is actually state capitalism.
Unfortunately, China is actually a authoritarian capitalist country under the guise of COMMUNIST.
The only thing communist about China is its ruling party's name. Their means of production are owned by rich douchebags who are in the party's good graces, similar to the US political system.
You realize that a "communist" state (which China really isn't anyway) would be the opposite of a state where people don't work, right?
All the Chinese companies moved to Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Africa, Mexico and South America to avoid US Taxes and Tariffs.
So, China ‘s business is still the same. She just changed the countries.
China has income over $1 billion a day. Is that bad!?
I mean, 1 Billion income is pretty bad for a country of China's size. Think you may need to rethink your sense of scale.
So goofy china is gonna be in a world of hurt after these tariffs
GODDAMN, DUDE!!! This was such AMAZING analysis - as usual! - that I may have to watch this three times to commit it to memory!
I love your enthusiasm :D I agree, it is a really good video!
You’re overdoing the narration
Tune it down a couple notches
It’s getting obnoxious
In response to your point about the lack of foreign tourists, there are actually quite a lot foreign visitors in China at the moment. With Li Ziqi's return to UA-cam, the number of tourists coming to China is also expected to rise.
also the new short term visas for European countries
Dont laugh, this is global problem not only China.
but its exacberating in china. In the US for example companies are begging for more engineers and scientists.
If ever CN's Economy falls, It might ruin imports in my country (Philippines) and probably cheap goods.
Though it's temporary tbh
@@AL-lh2hthave you not seen all the layoffs
@@AL-lh2htnot true at all. So many ppl with tech degrees such as computer science can't find employment and you're talking about begging. Do you live on Mars or are you suffering from dementia?
So they have the same issues as the entire developed world.
No. Because you are not allowed to express your frustrations freely, either individuallyoras a group. You can't even have fun. CCP hates groups/gatherings, etc. They fear an uprising. It doesn't take much. Look for soup dumpling bike ride. Bored kids who decided they wanted to go on a mission: A 50km ride to find the home of the best soup dumplings in China. Posted on Weibo, other people joined in. 100,000 other people. It was just a fun thing. The authorities got nervous and cracked down on it. At its height 800,000 people joined in across the country. Some people did what no one is EVER allowed to do - express their views. Cycling is now banned.
20% youth unemployment are the official numbers
In UK is officially a 14%
In Germany is officially around 6%
And in the USA is an 8%
It may be the same issue, but if I may use an analogy from videogames, is like comparing Poison Level 1 in the case of USA, Germany, with Poison Level 3 in the case of China
UK is very much in Poison 2
@@EdgyNumber1 buddy that was because there were 800 thousand people cycling at the same time, causing the largest traffic congestion in recent history
Just because is the same problem it doesn’t means is equally as bad, another example would be corruption, there is corruption in all countries (wich is a problem) but some countries are more corrupt than other, therefore those more corrupt countries have a bigger problem
@@Leo-ok3uj
>Government thrown out in electoral landslide
>Early elections called, government likely to be thrown out
>Government thrown out in electoral landslide
"hey," asks the Chinese student, "did you see what those guys do when the economy is bad?"
A Tibetan separatist dropping a mine behind the Three Gorges dam with a drone.
I'm not sure why this surprises anyone, I remember saying back in 2011 when everyone was saying China would take over the world, that their growth rate was unsustainable and would fall as they climbed the value chain. As to their property sector, in the long run its better for them that they deflate the bubble. Their property price to income ratio exceeds 40 in some cities (last I checked, prior to the correction of the last couple of years... probably still around 35). That's completely absurd and both pulls investment away from far more productive investment in the stock market and diminishes consumer spending, so it is a necessary correction which preferably will continue until the ratio falls below 10.
This sort of feels like the michael parenti black shirts and reds quote regarding capitalists' nations desire to paint any policy in the 'opposing camp' as intentionally designed to be subversive no matter what.... Sure college attendance went up during their financial crisis, but that happens here... China at that period was reaching levels of industrialization and specialization which would benefit from a better trained workforce and so improving education funding is a great investment both for short term economic stimulus and for long term economic construction.... and don't forget that even in the US college attendance rates increase during economic downturns because when people lose their jobs they instead try to reinvent and reinvest in themselves.... heres the quote if you're curious
"During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could
transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile
evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent
and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions,
this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms
limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but
when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because
they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR
were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the
churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regimes
atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on
infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the
collectivist system; if they didn t go on strike, this was because they
were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goodsdemonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in
consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to
placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them." -Michael Parenti, Black Shirts and Reds, Ch3. pg.41
First off: We do actually have supporting documentation from the opening of the Soviet archives. Especially with how soviets were an explicitly atheist state.
Secondly: The fact is simply that China has a university enrollment rate that's incredibly high just generally at roughly 60% while a country such as India has roughly 28%. Especially when it was facing a potential issue with students and youth unemployment, it's absolutely a solution. Of course, the alternative is just doing nothing at all, an action at odds with the government's desire for stability.
@@buddermonger2000 did you actually think that I was refuting that the USSR was a soviet state?.... on your second point thank you for just proving my point I guess?
@@miguelbaca8086 No. What i said was that we proved the soviets did in fact have these motivations when these things occurred.
Secondly, the point isn't proven. The implication is that it's a false narrative. It's simply reality.
Interesting
@@buddermonger2000 ok i'm just not gonna waste my time within someone that is repeatedly proving my point. have a day.
The mistake is that now this countries are demographic old, the youth revolutions were possible because they were a big chunk of the population.
What does Winnie the Pooh fear more than America? What does any dictator fear more than any external enemy? Their own people.
aren't the problems adressed in the video pretty much everywhere in the deveoped world? Japan with it's price bubble, hikkikomori, demographic collapse and aging. ect?
China has the added problem of autocracy and widespread corrution
And 100s of millions still in poverty
I’m gonna guess internal strife
I thought this was some kind of prank video, but after watching it, I realized it wasn't a joke, which made me feel even funnier. China's per capita consumption capacity has continued to rise, the R&D expenditure of enterprises has exceeded that of Europe, military equipment has increased geometrically, and the number of highly educated people has continued to rise. Yes, there are factories with large-scale unemployment, but they are replaced by fully automated robots, and people are flocking to the service industry, making grassroots living conditions better. Piercing the real estate foam in advance has avoided the real estate financial crisis and increased the ability to resist risks. Not to mention protests, we don't have low-quality refugees flooding into the country to compete with local people for jobs, nor do we have LGBT people interfering with social operations. China's decades long industrial dual circulation, both internal and external, is operating perfectly, and we are entering a new world at an unprecedented speed and pace. U.S.A? The old order? Tariffs? Whatever, we still have Africa, the Middle East, and South America.😆
The demographic crunch will likely still slow you down.
@@grimkahn3775 Population tightening? Population decline is not an instant disappearance. When automation reaches a certain level, population is no longer a dividend, but a burden. China is now ready with energy storage solutions (accumulated experience in electric vehicle batteries), high-voltage transmission solutions (accumulated experience in large-scale hydropower plants and photovoltaic industries), drones and other unmanned equipment (already in use), and Pangu AI models (covering NLP (natural language processing), CV (computer vision), and scientific computing). These are all preparations made decades ago, waiting for today's arrival. We don't need billions of people to maintain productivity. Can you imagine a country that is just starting to have a population of billions, with a large number of young people able to enter factories, but can they compete with robots that work 24 hours a day? Robots do not require pensions, do not need rest, and will not make mistakes. If factories lack competitiveness, they will only go bankrupt, and the large number of unemployed young people will only become a burden and a source of chaos for society.As for slowing down, unlike other countries that have experienced decline due to the tide of the US dollar, China is currently undergoing a process of economic transformation. We no longer rely on real estate and have increased investment in emerging industries. You can check the official websites of local governments in China, which are all publicly available information.
Massive unemployment is every government's fear.
People who haven't stayed in China do not realize the natural massive support that the CCP enjoys there. CCP's foundation isn't only anchored to the economic prosperitt, but the "social trauma", which China experienced. "Of course, the CCP took advantage of it and use it in their propaganda", but most Chinese, like the Vietnamese, are definitely contented by the current political structure of their country, regardless of how uncertain the economy is at this point.
Not sure how much this affects too, but from an outsider's perspective, the CCP has done an effective job at portraying themselves as the ones keeping outside forces from crippling China, in particular from the US.
Western people also forget that the CCP is not just Xi, there are many facets within the party
Every ching fear the Aryan race
Bharat also part of Indo-Aryan race
If the CCP is loved so much, why is China essentially a fascist dictatorship? Why isn’t China a democracy like America, if the CCP thinks it’s genuinely popular and can win elections on its own merits?
Democracy came from the need of the property owners to protect their well beings. It was like this in ancient Athens, it was like this in the U.S. before the mid 19th century… it changed only since the Industrial Revolution into something we can recognize today. So yes, “it’s the Economy stupid” really is the Golden Rule to all democratic systems.
with the information space today it's more accurate to say 'it's the perception of the economy stupid'
@ good point!
4:30 Graph shows "1877" instead of "1977".... Very disappointed of you PolyMatter
Im hearing a lot of China population decline and lack of people getting married and having babies. How true is this? Perhaps someone from China can give some insight on this?
kindergartens are closing down and merging together, teachers get retrained on middle school or laid off. This crisis will hit hard in the next ten years.
So you got the graphic a bit wrong Boomers are the parents of Millennials not grandparents and Gex X is the parents of Gen z. Millennials are the parents of gen Alpha, I a millennial dad have two gen alpha sons and my father and mother are both boomers and that's the same with all my millennial friends maybe the youngest/oldest of millennials have gen x/different gen as parents but I doubt there are many the majority of the time it follows that.
That’s right, he got that completely wrong lol.
It depends entirely on what age you are when you start having kids, and how late into your life you continue having kids (if you have multiple). Men can have children into their 70s, and even women who have a much narrower window, still have about 20 years or so. My mother's Gen X and I'm a Millennial. But I've got younger brothers who are Gen Z, and a brother who is Gen Alpha.
@@adamperdue3178 I said there may be differences in the younger or old ones but generally it does follow what I was saying the majority of the time. I have an economics degree and we did demographics in marketing classes and that was the rule of thumb for advertising.
Interesting, informative for a foreigner, but you could dive deeper instead of just repeating numbers from others.
I feel that all these high unemployment rates are because of young people being told to find their "dream job", or a "job that get you lots of money". There's only so many doctors, engineers and artists you'll ever need. There will always be low income workers, we just need to make sure that there is a good work-life balance and no body is a starving homeless.
Completely wrong if you could figure out that all the people doing the jobs you've mentioned are the most overworking employees in China.
I might say he does not even know about this because no one will report this information to a dictator!
“Every society is only 3 means away from chaos.” Vladimir Lenin.
Wasn't actually Lenin though it's a common misattribution.
Also historically it's been pretty wrong/incredibly rare, rather it's the opposite - a well fed populace is more likely to uprise for ideological reasons.
@@bobbingfortoast1912 Yeah famine can actually solidify power. North Korean escapee Yeonmi Park said nobody in her village ever talked about or thought about revolution. All they thought about was food. They didn't have the strength to march on Pyongyang.
@@bobbingfortoast1912 lmfao, people never uprises for ideological reasons, peoples uprises because of hunger, anger, and overall disatisfaction from conditions of living. A well fed populace will never uprise, that's why governments trying to improve economics, housing, logitistics, etc., not because they care about you. And historically, it's always been like that.
@ I think historically it’s true that most revolutions are due to ideological movements, however in truly repressive societies like the DPRK and, increasingly, the PRC economic desperation and hunger are going to be the drivers. They don’t have the luxury of forming organised movements.
@@MakerInMotion yeonmi park is a known liar lol, not a great source.
Youth unemployment is rising sharply planet PLANET WIDE because of ROBOTS and rising outsourcing to cheaper hungrier countries.
Thanks congress for 1.6 bill for anti china propaganda 😂😂😂😂
You do know that in the 90s China was still PREDOMINANTLY agaraian right? Your model of parents having the feeling of happiness of fastest economic growth during 90s and their kids not happy nowadays simply doesn't stand still. The quality of life and the bottom line of that has been improving.
I like how you assume China is going to tell the world how much it spends on its military. Ridiculous to imagine that you would have access to the real number.
If one uses the official numbers they’ll call you out for trusting them
If one doesn’t uses the official numbers they’ll call you out for making stuff up
Have to admit, kudos to the young people in China for voicing their dissent - even under a one-party dictatorship. Really wish more of my home country's people take a page from the above and stop squandering the rights we do have.
I don’t like the Chinese government… but when l see industrial China (companies like huawei, byd, TikTok, dji…) it makes me question all the naysaying leveled towards China…
Particularly, when l see all the insults in the comments… it is very telling.
If the same problems can appear in both china and the US, two countries with vastly different political systems, then it's not a "democracy" issue if you ask me, giving free elections to the people of china doesn't mean that suddenly new jobs will appear and that their wages will increase. It's all economics and the use of human resources. Becoming a democracy would only change the flag and emblem. China is still there, the packaging is just slightly different, but it's still china.
The fact that we get free videos on UA-cam by PolyMatter is truly a gift; keeping education and knowledge alive. 👍🙏🤷
It's free because its propaganda
Every ching fear the Aryan race
@@Praisethesunson Feel free to ignore it and invest in China then. 😆
Some stupid people like to think people protest for shit like Liberty, freedom or democracy😂
It's always "I don't have much food"..."my kids are hungry" or "I don't have a job"...😢
How can China simultaneously have such high youth unemployment & labour shortage?
He will contradict himself to make his 'China is on the cusp of failure' point over and over.
Every ching fear the Aryan race
@@boarbot7829the grants won’t earn themselves, you know.
The US has the same problem: No college graduate wants to work retail for $15 an hour when that wont even cover rent.
Lying flat is getting somewhat popular.
For the CCP just as well their population is decreasing with a lack of jobs.
The too long didn't watch:
It's spiders
I knew it! Thanks
The ching fear the Aryan race
Makes sense
Your brain is cooked
How are Chinese youth such a small demographic yet unemployed? I don't get that..
Xi Jinping fears losing his power.
Wait a second, you said foreign investment is down ! . But aren't investors pumping money into china more and more by selling in young markets like india ??
Back to our China videos again, Polymatter x China a never ending relationship
He is one of the more fair analytical sources on China to be honest; None of the "Xi Jinping is our lord and savior that will tear down the hypocritical west" or "China will collapse in X number of days because Y reason".
Every ching fear the Aryan race
Predicting imminent collapse of China since…
Annual 'China collapsing' story~I have to admit this one is of good quality though~
And they say the CPC is good at propaganda, but look at the views and likes of this video~ gotta give'em this one~
Ello early crew.
The unemployment rate statistics only include people with city household registrations, not including the migrant workers from rural areas. The truth is much worse.
Employment stats include migrant workers as they come under the Urban umbrella. Migrant workers also pay taxes and health insurance. China had about 295 million such workers by the end of 2022, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. More than half are employed in the service sector, and about 70 million of them work outside their home provinces, the bureau said
4:45 comparing China's GDP per capita in 1998 to mali's in 2024 is the dumbest thing I've ever heard, not to mention above the chart you wrote "GDP" not "GDP per capita"
Why is it dumb? The lack of "per capita" on the graph should be fixed, but why is it dumb to compare China's 1998 per capita GDP to Mali's current per capita GDP? If anything, it makes the comparison better, because people are going to have a better idea of where Mali is today than where Mali was ~25 years ago.
@@adamperdue3178Russia's GDP per capita in 1998 was $1800, China at $800. Now look at that graph again. You really don't see what's wrong? Is it really that much of a gap between Russia and China?
@@Grayson_WuIt says "China (1998)" versus "Russia (2024)". No doubt the gap now is much smaller.
@@Grayson_Wu "Is it really that much of a gap between Russia and China?" Yes, there is that much of a gap between 2024 Russia and 1998 China. You seem to be interpreting this as if it's some sort of slight against China for saying that China in 1998 was not as powerful as Russia is today (at least on a per-capita basis), but that's clearly not the point of the comparison.
Why is the narration so off in this? Sounds like 2 different people or an AI trying to read for you.
in 1989 china's gdp was $300 billion, china's gdp per cap was $300 USD poorer than most countries in sub saharan africa.
in 2023 china's gdp is $18.3 trillion, China's gdp per cap is $13,000 USD.
china is no longer a impoverished 3rd world country, it is now a upper middle income country that is $1000 gdp per cap away from transiting from middle income status into a high income gdp country.and it is only a couple more years away from attaining $20,000 gdp per cap, the gdp of highly developed countries like Singapore, taiwan or south korea back in the 2000s and 90s..
revolutions and uprisings have almost never happened in developed countries in modern history.....that is because they only happen in places of extreme poverty, hopelessness and squalor. even the gdp per cap of Xinjiang has risen by nearly 250% in the last 10 years to $10,000 usd.
civil wars and uprisings happen in countries like myanmar or eygpt.....not in countries whose gdp per cap is $13,000 and nearly half a billion people live in provinces whose gdp per cap is almost $20,000 to $30,000 usd.....
no matter how much frustration or discontentment people might feel in highly developed or even semi developed countries, life is too comfortable for most people in these countries to violence and chaos and even take up arms and fight wars in an attempt to
You eat two steaks. I eat none. Steak consumption per capita: 1 steak. You earn $1,300,000 . Ten thousand people people survive with just $130... GDP per capita: $13,000. GDP is a dumb and wrong way of measuring how people are doing.
@@clgr1323wrong, gdp is a good enough way to measure how people are doing. hardly there is any other way better than gdp, and ur example only exist for small group and high inequality, which not exactly the case for china.
China's GDP per capita adjusted by PPP is at about the world median at 21.4k. It's roughly comparable to Bosnia, Columbia, Georgia, and Belarus. None of these countries are politically stable by virtue of their standard of living.
Let me add that China's experienced standard of living for the majority is much lower than nominal GDP numbers would suggest. Compared to most nations, China spends very little on entitlements like healthcare and pension, which improves quality of life, and substantially more on the internal and external security and defense apparatus. Chinese government spending is all about "guns, and not butter".
@@Nainara32 if u look at gdp adjusted for purchasing power parity or ppp, China's gdp already eclipsed US back in 2019.....its already at $37 trillion almost 40 percent higher than US....a USD of spending power goes a long long way in china. a dollar equivalent of yuan in china can buy u so much more.i mean take for example a 20km cab ride in america or any developed country would easily cost u close to $50 if not more during rush hour.....in china its less than $10.
i have no idea what ur talking about all about guns and not butter, did u even watch the video?in the very first 60 seconds of polymatter's video he already mentioned china's military expenditure and showed u a graph of it, china literally spends 1/5th the amount of money US spends on the military, US spends almost doubles as a percentage of her gdp almost 3.4% compared to china's 1.7%.
that is with america already reaching record levels of debt nearly 35 trillion and deficit almost 1.7 trillion a year, her debt goes up 3 trillion a year or 10 trillion every 3 years and her cost of borrrowing is already out of control almost 4.5% and she still shows no signs of slowing down her spending....913 billion a year on her millitary are u serious?
china doesnt care? have u seen china's cities?how incredibly well organised and planned they are,efficient and orderly. u think a country that doesnt care about her people and society would build a 14,000km hsr network connecting the country and every province?and hundreds of metro lines with the most intricate lines and hundreds of stations? efficient public transportation, efficient logistics for a efficient economy.
everything in china is efficient and affordable including her healthcare, its not like america spending nearly 4 times per capita on healthcare and yet tens of millions of america still cannot afford healthcare and access to good affordable healthcare because all the policies are shaped by government and politicians to allow and enable the healthcare providers, insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies to gorge american taxpayers!!!!!
and america's transportation and public infrastructure is in shambles because the automobile and oil companies dictate and shape national policy through powerful lobbies and
u are living in a country where the state controls and dictates what the corporations and uber rich does and craft state and national policies in the country's best interests not in a world where corporations and capitalism controls the government and the country!!!!
i dunno how people like u are literally allowed to lie or deliberate spread FALSE INFORMATION,practically everything u claimed is wrong, u are literally spreading PURE PROPAGANDA.
Ccp 50 cent army: 😡😡🤬🤬
Honestly, the housing market declining in value would have been fine......... if it wasn't for 70% of investments in property. It's one of the few things the state allows you to invest in more easily, so there's a ridiculous amount of middle-class wealth that's just destroyed. Not to mention, many of it is tied in buildings that aren't even finished developing yet.
Also, to give how stark of a contrast there is between the generations in China, there were more babies born in 1990-1991 than the entirety of the 1980's. The entire 90's generation have to work the longest hours, work the most overtime, get social security at the latest age of all generations, and, now, have the least to show for it all.
agreed. I made a statement once that China will become the most powerful nation on earth if they can resolve the issue with youth unemployment....but solved in 5-8 years. I think they can do this if by copying current US industries and products they don't have yet. For example, US food and beverage companies. US entertainment movie, music, companies especially video games. Make the Chinese learn and copy Western culture for new products.
Friday afternoon, raining outside, eating bowl of pho, watching Polymatter
This is the most biased western propaganda video I’ve ever seen😂😂
Total anti china propaganda video. How much you got paid for this?
His biggest fear is people rising up and throwing his ass out of power
0:22 "all lights are flashing red for Xi" - Xi : that must be communist heaven 🤣
One thing the CCP has going for it is that Chinese (and Eastern more generally) culture is much more communal / conformist. This leads to people putting up with poor governance a lot more than the West, which is competitive / individualist.
I agree with the 1st half, not so sure about the 2nd half. USA govt system n longer seems fit for purpose - how many times has govt shutdown nearly occurred? The last time was when the republicans had a majority and yet some 13 of them decides to hold the govt budget to ransom
@@deragoth4250 I'm not sure how that is related to my post.
@@graham1034 I guess USA is part of the west. As they are more individualistic their people should tolerate poor governance less and change it. USA governance seem to be go the other way though. In fact it feels like they (politicians) are just seeking to exploits loopholes rather than fixing it and the people don’t seem to be doing anything about it
Did xi tell you this ? Cia propaganda
What fuqery is this? The USA average employee works 1900+, not 1800. BS data leads to BS conclusions
I'm finding a lot of different figures online, but most of the different figures I'm finding for the US have different figures for China as well, so I'm assuming there's differences in methodology. For example I'm looking at Clockify which has the US at 1,892 hours per year, which is roughly at that 1,900 figure you're claiming, but the same source has China at 2,392 hours per year, which is well above Polymatter's claim of 2,200. The argument being made doesn't really hinge on the minute specifics of this figure; the US workers clocking in at 1,900 hours per year vs. 1,800 and Chinese workers clocking in at 2,400 vs. 2,200 doesn't create a meaningful difference in the bigger picture.
@@adamperdue3178 US Department of Labor statistics. So the data presented is even more incorrect. That's not a good thing
Lengthy intro, heavy historical background, not much actual content
The day China runs out of haters is the day PolyMatter bites the big one
Of course you’re African 🤣
There are bigger haters out there though.
I also don’t get why some ppl try so hard to defend the CCP and see any criticism as an attack on china as a whole. China has a wonderful history and culture that has been tainted by their government. Its government is singlehandedly their n1 global image destroyer. The Chinese ppl deserve better
and Westerners will provide for them like they provided for the Libyan, Iraqi and Afghani people
😂😂😂😂😂 India says hold my Beer 🍺. Our prime minister was recently dubbed as the king of unemployment
Bharat will do better in future, ching fear the Aryan race (Indo-Aryan, include Europe and India aka Bharat also)
But India is a democracy. People can vote him out if they want but such a mechanism doesn't exists in China .
Don't worry china will soon defeat India in this race as well 😊😊
0:40 before it stopped collecting the data. It's always manipulated the data.
Is it that "China collapse" time of the year again?
Already? So soon? I thought we just went through one not even half a year ago, lmao 🤣😂
US debt is rising exponentially and BRICS are looking for alternative to dollar to conduct international trade meaning nobody buys american bonds anymore. If anything, this video should be titled how bad time is coming for americans 😂😂
@@roxylius7550 has nothing to do with debt lmao, don't talk about topics you don't understand. If america has bad time coming it's because they willingly collapse their hegemony because they are mind broken by culture war.
Alot of the narrative is hyperbolic. But the demographic crunch and housing bubble are real issues.
Jealous
Winnie the Pooh
It stopped being funny years ago, mate. And it was never true… not that anyone cares.
@@2005batmanapparently you care enough to comment. +15 social credit. Only another 30 away from redeeming one (1) pot of honey!
AMERICA STRONK
The translation says "America stunks"