Delphinium Flower not with trump as president as his foreign policy to recall most of the US’s overseas troops back. With the the Clintons, Bushes, and Obama yes, as they were using wars to enrich the military industrial complex.
Delphinium Flower are you not aware that 90% of US foreign based troops have been recalled back? Are you also not aware that John Bolton is aggressively against Trump’s policy and he insisted that some troops has to remain in the Middle East? Are you not aware that Obama initiated many open and covert wars and Trump has not started even a single war on other countries, with the exception of completely uprooting Isis, where Obama failed to accomplish? Are you not aware that before Trump rocket man of North Korea was launching many rockets but Trump stopped him? Are you not aware that Trump is the only US president who is welcomed to step foot in North Korea?
Delphinium Flower it was Obama and John McCain who had created Isis. That’s why the administration of Obama kept (fighting them as visual stunt ) but never really destroy them. Trump administration has uprooted Asia in recent months, but the fake mainstream media played it down.
We have exactly same things happening in Russia. Government controls everything and tells everybody that other countries are bad and not us. Thanks for sharing some facts from the history, Winston. You really helped me to understand China better!
Not just Russia, it's almost every government 😊 And US is the biggest bully as it needs global conflicts, illegal invasions for perennial wars and stealing resources, continuation of petro dollars and the list goes on. The major difference is that US and other Western powers cause more deaths and destruction in other countries , not their own. 😊 It's very apparent, isn't it?
It happens everywhere, the only way to get out of this cycle is by following ethics and spreading it to other people. Anarcho-capitalism follows ethics and thats why i believe it would work everywhere. Nowadays we don't have any choice but to be slaves, but that will change soon, we have ideas and technologies to help spread it such as cryptocurrencies and the internet by our side.
@@shishirsubba713 It is everywhere, thats the way governments can survive nowadays. How can you enslave people without being confronted? Make the slaves think about something else to worry about, wars are really great at that.
Yeah! I remember that Olympic Torch thing. I remember seeing a French family get totally screamed at in the PSB. Their young kids were just standing there in shock/ crying. Yes, there is no place in this world for that kind of hate.
It took me almost 2 years to subscribe to your channel, I thought you were too hard against China, but now I understand your RESPECTFUL and directly criticism towards China.
it's not something we should joke about, but the way we make fun of what they actually are makes them funny like the Cultural Evolution (cultural devolution because it was just a big disaster of the deletion of chinese culture) and the Great Leap Forward (great leap backwards because it was just a massacre of people from powerful people who didn't understand the population of China and their agricultural centered lifestyle). We make fun of it because it allows us to ignore all the death and just look at its absurdity for what it was supposed to be and what it actually became.
This is so true. I worked in Nanjing, teaching English to small kids. One particular reader we used described foods from around the world, sushi being one such food. All of my children thought sushi was from China, and when I told them it's actually Japanese, the whole classroom, including some kids as young as four, would growl and say how much they hate Japan. It's a perfect illustration of cultural brainwashing and an inherent aversion to independent thinking.
You will never know what japan did to SEA, you will never understand how the elders gone through this. My aunt gone through this had trauma. It can be forgive, but never forget.
My Grandfather fought in WW2 and had his leg partially blown off by Nazi forces. Tonight, I had beers and an awesome night with a group of Germans. So yeah, I understand. You guys aren't the only ones ...
Anthony Abroad the thing is , Anthony, Germans at least have kneed and pray for forgiveness. They tried to show some regret on medias. Look at Japan? They revised their history book just to erase the part THEY INVADE CHINA AND SLAUGHTER 300 THOUSAND OF PEOPLE( JUST IN NANJING). if you are still in NanJing, there is a WW2 museum about the slaughtering for you.
Yes, I've been there. And the museum was deeply moving and emotional to experience. What happened in China during the Japanese occupation was terrible and horrifying. But maintaining blind hatred towards the second or third generation of an enemy that was destroyed some 60 odd years ago is not only foolish and counterproductive, but is the type of attitude that will lead to violence cause history to repeat itself.
Charlie you do realise Chinese people are capable of recognising those aren’t historical documentaries yet still are able to enjoy them right? Ask any one who watches those shows, if they believe Chinese farmers actually used steamed bun grenades or torn a Japanese in half with bare hands. They would look at you like you are crazy.
@@bowmanc.7439 They're basically revenge porn, made to cool the wounds of the Chinese national psyche. I call them revenge porn, because in reality, the victims did not get their vengeance, and the villains returned safely to Japan, felt no remorse and suffered no consequences.
@@bowmanc.7439 yeah,but the point is ccp cant through those tv show lie to people， let people believe ccp is great, ccp save china from Japan army，so ccp can salve us easily
As a translator who often thinks about cross-cultural dynamics, I'm so happy that you're speaking openly about your experiences in China and that your content is reaching a wider audience thanks to the translated subtitles. I've learned a lot from your channel and continue to find it fascinating. Keep it up!
Martha Oschwald if you learned anything about China from this guys China’s story from his level of knowledge then you’ve brainwashed by his negative thoughts, I suggest you to go for travel to find out by your own eyes and then make judgement by yourself, by that time I’m sure you have your own vision of China. From his story I only see the negative ... if we talk about negative things about whole wide world, I think we could use our whole life to talk about it because there is no preface world for everyone... but only positive thinking can makes everyone happy and peace ....
You must not be listening to his story then because his channel is very comprehensive and covers a wide range of topics including his opinion on positive and negative aspects of Chinese culture. I suggest you learn how to write with accurate grammar if you'd like for people to take you seriously.
Thats the exact process - Two Minutes of Hate - in the novel with the screaming and yelling and vacant eyes. Orwelll described it so well (I need to go an find quotes now!). I live in China, and it is indeed amazing to see how children and adults change their attitudes so quickly in lieu of media and news. Experienced it first-hand myself. Like a faucet, yeah... scary, given this is 2019.
GumRamm in 1984,big brother edit the dictionary, and now the CCP edit the dictionary too.because Xin make a mistake on a word “譫养” which should be "赡养",what a big mistake in Chinese.
I'm Chinese by blood but born in the Philippines. I grew up in a family that migrated here pre-devolution and I gotta say there's a world of difference between us and mainlanders. There's clearly a big cultural gap between the (I'm coining these terms on the fly) "New Chinese" and us "Colonials". Everything you've been saying in all of your videos are right on the money, Winston. Keep up the good work!
Just because you have chinese blood doesn’t make u Chinese. Obviously you don’t have the Chinese root! I’m a Chinese born outside China yet the understanding and practice of our values remains. My father left China in the 30s to find greener pastures yet his heart always back home. I remembered how he saved up monies that he earned and send most back to China for his parent and sibling. To built house, to support his nephews’ education and etc etc. this is the values of Chinese. I can’t blame Chris for his videos made become he stand for what he believes and his race. Vice Versa for me. God bless you all.
I think that the most significant point made here is in the title "China NEEDS an ENEMY to Survive!" That statement applies to all countries led by communist or dictators. Keep the populace uninformed about reality, push "your truth", and finally give the people something, other than their leaders, to focus their aggression on. It is a proven method of governance. Keep saying what needs to be said.
Delphinium Flower LOL. You misunderstand the USA. Nobody (hardly anybody) in the USA cares about anyone in the countries we bomb. They aren’t our enemies because we honestly don’t believe they offer any threat to us. The opposite of love isn’t hate, its indifference. We are, as a society, apathetic and indifferent to the people we bomb overseas. If we hated them we would actually care what goes on and desire to win the wars we are in which would be counter productive to companies that just want to continue selling arms ceaselessly.
Brilliantly explained! I have a Chinese wife (from the Philippines - been married for more than 40 fun years!), and you are so spot on on what you offer in your videos (and so is Laowhy86!). Never stop!
That's how nationalism works. In order to survive, it needs a constant enemy, and the enemy must be inferior to the population/dehumanized in some way. 1984 covered this in depth.
No, it's the same way every ideology and social group - from classical liberalism (vs state regulation) to socialism (vs the bourgeoise) to football hooliganism (vs rival teams) to religion (vs heretics) to business (vs competitors) - works It's always in-group vs out-group. Anyone pretending to love everyone equally, without prejudice and preference, is a hypocrite and a liar.
That's not nationalism bro, that's authoritarianism, get it right. Nationalism is natural if you have some testosterone, you think Winston doesn't love south Africa?
People need to wake up from the spiritual confusion of what is usually called "progress". If you apply a wider view, observe a longer time frame, there is no progress if we do not evolve as human beings. (And I don't mean cybernetics, hah. Transhumanism is another such spiritual confusion.) To this day the human world is still as it was thousands of years ago. A different wallpaper makes people think they're in another room. - Wise leadership is still very much shunned. The vast majority have other priorities - pragmatic selfishness - which they then of course will find represented in the government. - Merely being reactive can never add anything new, different, anything that isn't already there. That requires acting based on a better world not yet manifest.
When China and Chinese people say they have 5000 years of history, what they meant, with or without communist destroying their history, Chinese history and culture are well documented and linear to their origin. Egyptians don't really know who build the pyramids and their culture, language and writings are now different from past Egyptians. Also, I agree with you to a certain extent that China uses outside enemies to promote unity. Who doesn't? The US always use flag burning Muslims to give a reason to hate them. Furthermore, the world has always looked at China as the outsider with fear. As to the Hauwei case. The endstate is that the US knows there is no way that we will beat China with 5G so we pulled a Tanya Harding on China. Simple as that.
I am someone who has a extreme passion for discovering history and the beauty of other cultures. Looking at history, I have to say that the loss of true chinese culture is one of the greatest injustices of the word, culture wise.
Yes, but as much as it is injustice, it is more of unfortunate mistake, that is why China absorb so much Japan/korean culture these days, but in the end it is all an cause/effect, Anime/Kpop might not be as popular as today if China had their own traditional culture preserved and spread across the globe.
I used to think like that before. But so many people still hate from what was done to them in the past. Native Indians are still angry, African Americans still angry, hawaiins still angry.. Muslims, Jews, Palestinians are still angry.. I’m starting to change my mindset. History teaches us what we can expect from others. We must never forget.. because sometimes history is all we have.
@@Jimmy-er2mc but all of them are missing the important part of history. To move forward, be the change you want in the world. YES some assholes can still choose live in the past, I wouldn't blame them history is made of prejudices, war, deceit, corrupted politics and suffering. But, to not move forward, to not see what's for the future, is to live an empty life as only a vessel to repeat things that are really petty and pointless in the first place. I wouldn't want to change your opinion, humans are different and I want to be kept that way. Because allowing people think differently is what makes us human.
this is so true, my family left China when i was 9 and even after that it took me years to drop my resentment of Japan and Japanese students. It was conditioned into myself and my classmates in China to associate merely the word "japan" with horriblness, the way you would with the word "nazi". The whole gluing people together like this was evident even when i was in grade school. I was in China during the Diaoyudao island protests and stuff and even my classmates were furious and angry at Japan. To the point where i was legitimately surprised that, after i arrived in Canada, nobody seemed to even know about the atrocities Japan had done. they give you something to be mad at, and that's ALL you can be mad at. It's not just with the war fantasy dramas either, it's with all of education. In school, everywhere you see is about the war and the horrible japanese. in all the classes, Chinese, English, Music, Science, even Math, is filled with propaganda that Japan is Bad and the Communist party (frankly, they never taught any of us what communism *means*) is Good. When a child grows up in that environment, it's hard not to think everything they want you to. To them, the rape of nanjing didn't happen in ww2, it happened yesterday. And if the people of China didn't stick together and be strong, they'd do it again tomorrow. (That's not something i made up, a teacher of mine actually said this to the class) Thank you so much for sharing this with everyone. And please, be careful. I would advise you to never go back to China again as long as it's still under the Communist party's rule. They have made more important and visible people disappear before. I'd hate for that to happen to you.
thank you for sharing your experience, I have had so many bad experience with other chinese people from china, I hate to think they're bad people, I like to blame the people who are running the conuntry and not the people themselves
Same thing is constantly happening in the Balkans. And let's not forget that former Yugoslavia was once a communist country. The same patterns , same fears ,beliefs can be evoken whenever those in charge have a need to do it. And people? They do grab the "story"immediately ,but in years passing by, they're somehow getting tired of it. They don't fight the governmnet ,cause they are still afraid opposing the leader ,but somehow they don't really care about the war or "enemies" anymore , they re passive and certainly having bigger life problems then fighting they're neighbours.
the thing with 198-4 is that the film itself is propaganda, more so than its a warning. the way the director of that movie filmed the whole thing, is only through the eyes of the protagonist, you (the viewer) are left in the dark about what anyone else is doing. This is done so when the main (only-)character gets caught and demoralized through torture, you the viewer feel the exact same feelings, demoralization, I dont want that to happend to me. You have been blindly put in his shoes. If you are familiar with how propaganda works, demoralization is the main weapon used to dismay, control people into inaction, the other one, ironically, being familiarization itself, als known as normalization.
Khajiit Hadwares its not film, but Orwell book. Its hard toread it and not be depressed. I think Animal Farm from this author is better. It shoud be in every scool
Orwell was his fictional pen name, his real name was Eric Blair, and he was politically involved with the war and regime propaganda. 'At the outbreak of the Second WW, Orwell's wife Eileen started working in the Censorship Department of the Minstry of Information in central London, staying during the week with her family in Greenwch. Orwell also submitted his name to the Central Register for war work, but nothing transpired. "They won't have me in the army, at any rate at present, because of my lungs" In August 1941, Orwell finally obtained "war work" when he was taken on full-time by the B.B C's Eastern Service. He supervised cultural broadcasts to India to counter propaganda from Nazi Germany designed to undermine Imperial links. This was Orwell's first experience of the rigid conformity of life in an office, and it gave him an opportunity to create cultural programmes.
"Eric Blair (Orwell) became instrumental in organising the Maximist's propaganda campaigns, helping to turn the Maximists into a major party in Britain with his popular short novels which encorporated totalist themes." In September 1943, Orwell resigned from the BBC post that he had occupied for two years.
As a chinese american not only do I agree with you, but am also shocked at the similarities this has with the US as well. The only difference is that in the US the aggression has been turned inwards edit: it seems like leftist regimes have a lot in common
Your scripting just continues to improve, Winston. Great subject choices and well-illustrated stories that are well-told. Without your channel, ADV China and Laowhy86's videos, I really don't believe I'd have the clearer vision of what China is today. Thank you.
@Chris Ward If you disagree with a particular news source, does that make it "fake news?" That is certainly Trump's rather obvious ploy. If he doesn't like what he hears from a news organization or individual, he calls it "fake news" or ridicules the person making the statement he disapproves of. Tactics like these and calling people you disagree with schoolyard taunts, should be the province of children, not the so-called leader of the West. I avail myself of many news sources and opinions before I form a firm opinion of my own. In light of new evidence, I may have to change that opinion. What I make certain I always do, is not issue sweeping declarations of who is false and who is not. Reason needs to prevail, not emotion.
It is Machiavellian thought: If you do not have an enemy, you must create one. This unites your people and helps calm unrest against the government. Kind of like that silly Independence Day movie where militant aliens invade Earth and all countries come together to combat a common enemy. Fictional show, real life phenomenon. BTW, that corvette in the background of this video is _so_ beautiful. That Stingray is one of my favorite generations of Corvette. I had a C4.
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. ... The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.” George Orwell People don't look at the cracks in their own system when they're too busy being told to look at everybody else
HAHA I laughed my ass off when there's talk about TV war fantasy drama's playing all day every day and there's a bunch of old timers watching it so intensely.
I spent about a week in Shanghai and Nanjing in 2014, when the dispute about the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands was very heated. Every CCTV news channel had anti-Japanese stories and commentary running continuously. You could tell it was coordinated by the government and was meant to manipulate Chinese viewers. I went to Japan directly after that, and there was nothing negative at all being said about the Chinese. Of course, the US has needed the threat of outside enemies to band Americans together, too. The Soviet Union in the past, Iran and China increasingly these days.
I'm from mainland and I've been living overseas for several years, and now I think the discrimination is actually happening the most among Chinese people.
That I can agree to after studying with PRC students (not all of them are bad btw; the best litmus test is to mention Taiwan). PRC Chinese are hostile towards ethnic Chinese outside China as well.
4starKT Nah, they mainly murder Uyghurs and Falun Gong members (estimates range into the millions). And btw, cops don’t run around murdering indiscriminately, 99% of cases were self defense or covered under good faith at worst
This is true, if you read China's history, you will learn the one that killed the most Chinese are not foreigners or outside invasion (although lots of them are dead). The one that killed the most Chinese in every dynasties are CHINESE from Power Struggle, Corrupted Official and more. Just look at Communist and Nationalist, Mao Zedong who lead Communist killed lots of Nationalist for power after Nationalist drove away Japan. Then Mao Zedong killed more Chinese to make Hitler look like a Saint in comparison.
I have been in China during the anti Japenese rallys and demonstrations (2010). I studied at a university. Every student was forbidden to leave the campus for half a week because of these protests. Even foreigner students (including me) were only allowed to shop at walmart and go directly back to campus... The government / university council were baning any participation of students in this protests and locking up a full campus of 20.000 students. I have made a totally different experience than you. (?)
Not sure what CNN said, but in China, this is true. Chinese hate Hongkongers, Taiwanese, Korean, Japanese, American, British, the West with democracy and Muslims. It is mainly due to all medias in China is state controlled. Their rhetoric are always about how China was shamed for years and now is the time to hit everyone back. Any critics against China is being treated as attack to all Chinese.
Hi Winston, This type of behavior has been used from way back in time, truth is the only remeady, respect for each other and love of neighbor, this has to be taught.
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. ... The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.” George orwell
Winston, i like your contend, but im especially impressed by your last 2 videos. Really good presentation , eloquent, professional and far above youtube standarts. Great to see the evolution of your channel!
Very happy to see a fellow South African changing the world with your videos. Truly inspiring, I love your perspective and the manner in which you deliver, very informative and real life issues that we can all relate. Big ups to you bru. I would be honoured to meet you one day.
China definitely has long history. I can still read the text written on bamboo scripts written 2000 years ago. The Chinese writing characters hasn't change too much.
@Brandy Wasay he is saying the truth, I can read it as well, I can't figure out why a foreigner like you so confident about you know China better than us, at least we can read your language(but I never said I know west) I bet you can't type a single Chinese character to commuicate with us
only seen a couple of your videos, but your views are consistent with other westerners that have worked in China. You make a lot of sense. Enjoy your vids.
Our government never say foreigners are bad, we are willing to build good relation throughout the world including the US and Japan. It's never officially encouraged to hold anti-japan activities but only discouraged. You can comment and criticize, but not throw mud.
@@nawtilismaelis2043 wow, it's a good idea to abuse someone innocent as back-stabbing when you has nothing else to insult. Thanks for youtube, eye-opener.
Excellent insights! I was bitterly disappointed when you cats bailed on being located here, but it seems that broadcasting from the free world has really enabled you to take your channel up a notch. Thank you as always for your solid analyses and interesting perspectives.
That's exactly what I was thinking. He shouldn't go back unless the place has a regime change or something because if they seen his videos here that seems like it could be a problem.
thank you for speaking the truth as you see and experience it. Its very helpful for people dealing with social issues everywhere to pause and take perspective of events elsewhere. stay well, stay honest, stay classy!
One of the best videos you've ever done. I've been to China multiple times, have good friends there and a mainland born GF here in the west now. You are 100% on the mark.
@Chris Ward celebrates the death machine. 76,702,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese. Death by Government, political scientist R. J. Rummel, University of Hawaii.
@Chris Ward "You morons think Mao Zedong is still in power?" Same system is in power, numbnutz. China is using Falun Gong practitioners, Uighurs, Tibetans, and Christians as forced organ donors $$$. At least 10,000 people died in Tiananmen Square massacre. Capitalists walk their dogs, Socialists eat their dogs. Socialism is a belief system where most followers deny reality and the leaders feed on the believers.
@Scythee 777 (he's speaking /from the US perspective - ie, some elements of the US leadership making a big deal about Russia. Note that he says /about/ Russia. Ie we all agree - China's boogeymen are like some elements in the US', preoccupation with Russia.)
@Scythee 777 I was going to say that. The difference is that we can bee-och about it and not get arrested. ( Harassed, maybe, but not arrested. ) It's 1984 Groundhog day/year.
Good ole John Wayne? The self-proclaimed racist? Give me a break. He was already a dinosaur in the 70’s. He was also a homophobe that couldn’t praise Nixon enough. Good riddance.
@@prastagus3 It's crazy just how fast Chinese universities have rocketed up world rankings for both academics and research. The sheer number of talents they sponsor for scholarships to the best foreign schools is proving to be quite effective.
@@prastagus3 yes, impressively. But the government makes me anxious. China can be much more with some serious government reform. And I'm not talking about Pooh thought.
That's his opinion. I personally never openly heard, in 10 years of China, that the US was the enemy. Nor felt threatened in any way. This is not information nor journalism.
@@Cafeston Thanks for spreading the truth @ Pierrick Calvez from what I see in China , foreigners, Americans included are generally so well welcomed ,almost to an unreasonable extent . If anything ,the only REAL hatered is against Japan. but with all that manga and J-pop yong ppl care less and less.
*I came here to learn something practical about China...i didn't came here to watch how grown person has just fugured out simple human psychology at the age of 40.* Looks like Winston started commenting under his own videos. Unsubscribing for now.
@@Cafeston You don't feel it, but that doesn't make it's not true. This is the tactics China use all the time. You just didn't pay attention or simply ignore it. The US also have this, you will notice during these trade war, many people often mistaken me for Chinese and I told them "I am a Vietnamese, you dumb ass". However, knowing so much about China's history, Centralize Government just take this to a whole new level, Vietnam also have this, but LITE version compared to China.
Excellent presentation. Very well enunciated and clarifies so well the "methodology" and achieved intent of communism, the absolute dominance and control of it's people.
Idiot. Grudges and hate are essential for tribal,ethnic, and national survival. Life is a competition, a great competition for resources and survival. And hatred puts you in a perfect mindstate for that situation.
As a Chinese, i want to say old Chinese culture does't disappeared. Many values or art forms are still learned by us. the culture revolution in 1960s did not destroy the whole traditional chinese culture system. Besides chinese people realized that culture revolution was a total miatake!
I am 100% in agreement with you. The Dazu Rock Carvings in Chongqing are approximately 600 years old, I had visited it, absolutely fantastic. The Ancient City in Guiyang. The Emperors Palace in Shenyang. The Chongqing museum. In the Theatre in Guiyang you can still watch performances by Minority Groups about ancient traditions. etc. I can go on and on. A lot of Chinese Culture from thousands of years back still exist and it was a privilege to visit that places.
Be careful friend I am old enough to remember Mao. Best of luck to you and your family in what has become a very dangerous place for no communists people.
Also, western education more and more encourages us to think the abstract, ie putting ourselves in the shoes of others, questioning the status quo. In the US the only way ( and to a point in the UK) to get a top Degree grade is to challenge your teacher, might be wrong, but that's not the issue its the curiosity and challenge to keep all of us from falling into ignorance and thus easily manipulated. Just like the Catholic Church of the past, the dominant power prefers an ignorant people, thus the church was against the masses reading, in particular, the bible. So the unchallenged ruling power that controls the narrative, controls the people, as so well explained in your video piece. Recently in Dubai I spoke to a Filipino says girl in an Apple store who had been raised in Dubai ( whilst waiting for an order), Filipino's are great people, very subservient, and think as a collective. This young girl obviously had talent, but struggled with direction and the usual family pressures. I found myself saying to her remember these two things, 1) Always be curious, never accept an answer unless there is some fact to back it up 2) Don't worry about being annoying, be a pain, rattle the cage. Equally in the West we need to remember 1) The collective works for large scale projects, ie NHS, Infrastructure, 2) The individual is not God, as the Norwegians believe, 'I am not better than anybody else', Jante Law, ie humility So as usual its a messy mix of the two, flux and flow. To me the most successful type of governance is practiced by the Nordic form of Democratic Socialism, but always evolving, through fair and free elections, Government transparency and a narrow wage gap.
"Just like the Catholic Church of the past, the dominant power prefers an ignorant people". That's complete bullsh*t. Where did you learn this kind of "fact"? That's a shocking prejudice.
Oh, are enraged Americans smashing up stores selling Made-In-China stuff? Well, that news haven't gotten out for us in Europe to hear. Thank you for this information.
Studied history for 10+ years, eventually i came to the conclusion that anywhere where there was some sort of economical, societal collapse, or war, the British were involved. All roads lead to London.
You are most welcome! But you can't be too sure after American peace maker finally found WMDs or washing powder in another country, smashing stores is way too gentle.
Absolutely not considering the Egyptians were conquered and replaced by many people such as the Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Turks. Unlike Egypt, China still possess their blood of their ancestors, use the same writing script as their ancestors, and speak a language which is descended of their ancestors. Comparing a people, the ancient egyptians to modern egyptians who are now Muslims, Arabs, and speak Arabs to Ancient chinese and modern chinese is idiotic.
@@XtoCee Good point thats what i was thinking im from the horn of africa there were great empires during the time of china being a world power. The port of adulis from the axum empire used to trade with china. So we also like to say we have 4k history etc. This guy is just trying to put doubt in ppls heads. He forgot to mention alot of people actually go to china from Korea and japan to learn traditional medicine he forgot to mention that bit. But we are still the same people from that time so its diff from egypt of course.
@@XtoCee So by your logic, the US is as old as England? And since English is a derivative of Latin, spread by the Romans, and its laws a descended from the Romans, I guess the US is a few millennia old as well. Of course not. China today is as related to its history as the CPC is religious. The minority of Chinese who are free to practice their customs and beliefs are the true inheritors of the Chinese culture, and every year, those numbers dwindle.
Mister, I salute you. You did a great job. What you describe follows the same image I gathered about Soviet Union between 1940 to 1950 - the Great patriotic war. I happen to own a book that is full of exactly these ridiculous stories about ordinary soldier-comrades and about their unbelieable valor and self-sacrifice. I don't dislike the sentiment, but I know why they were written. The themes stay same. Hopefully the government won't find it necessary to force its concerned citizens into stupid patriotic war because system becomes too unsustainable.
@Meljov I won't dispute the stories of bravery of soldiers, who lived and died for their families, their freedom and peace in all the world. I will only say this: Stalin's generals and many heroes from the war didn't live long to enjoy the victory. And that didn't appear in those old sentimental stories.
I truly hope that if you've impacted only one life, it was the life of that boy who had seen the movie and smashed his Japanese toys. I hope that the talk you had with him, stays in his mind forever and triggered a thought process that will create a chain reaction for his children and grandchildren. It has to start somewhere.
I am a new fan and yet I have watched probably 100 videos so far from your various channels... Interesting fact: I have clicked "thumbs up" on every video of yours that I have watched, and that's my honest opinion. Your videos are just flat out great. I have learned an amazing amount. Whatever I have wondered about China in the past (not knowing) has been addressed in your videos. Amazing! You guys are great! Idea: Imagine creating a new channel "AdvAmerica" which covers any adventure travel anywhere in the Americas, including Mexico, Canada, and including South America... Here's the idea: Since that's AdvAmerica and people over here on this continent are freely commenting, we wouldn't have to worry about tech-savvy folk in China who tunnel through a VPN to comment on that AdvAmerica channel, so we could then talk freely. Here's some further logic: on AdvAmerica I can express my American opinion without having to worry about setting off a bunch of people in China. I don't have to have that hanging over my thought process. I don't want folks in China to be upset. (How could they come on to a channel that is hosted in the US, a service blocked in China, and then claim that we are trying to hurt their 'bums' while they are forced to use an illegal VPN just to be able to see what we're talking about.) Also, we could compare facts about various countries but it's not about China. By starting at a great distance from China, the folks over there, struggling via VPN to see our comments won't have a leg to stand on with any derogatory spam. "AdvAmerica: not in china, not having anything to do with china, hosted in the US, naturally blocked in china, about travel and adventure in the Americas or any other location in the free world." Thoughts? Cheers!
Thank you Winston for all the work that you've put in over the years. I'm wondering, do you think that going into the Peace Corps for an American able to do so, with a post in China, would be a worthwhile experience these days given the climate on the ground?
@@serpentza. I've watched your content for about 7 years, since I was in high school. Through your content and some exposure from friends I grew to appreciate China, but the situation on the ground does worry me a bit. Thank you so much for taking the time to respond.
The human zoo by Desmond Morris explains a lot about getting people in a region to unite thru fear and hate of people outside their social environment.
As the Cold War drew to a close Arbatov warned that America would miss the comfortable status quo of the superpower stand-off: "We are going to do something terrible to you," he noted. "You will no longer have an enemy." Georgi Arbatov
Phantom Thief Irwin Yes, the US and the Western world are the ones in need of an enemy, not the likes of China, Russia and devout Muslims like the supremacist OIC. And Islam is a religion of peace 👌🏻 Tras de ladrón, bufón.
US is not officially a totalitarian states, but it often look for other countries to be painted as the ultimate foe of Americans. Several years ago it was Iraq and Libya. Now it is China.
@@kevinclement1533 Your comment is true but recognize a few differences. First the US does have a Foreign policy strategy that is meant to improve/promote our values and interests worldwide. For better or worse they include antagonizing Iran, Russia, North Korea, Syria and China. Formerly included Iraq and Libya but those are of the table. In the US people, political parties and the media can and do oppose our governments actions, not so in China where everyone must tow the party line. Another thing is that American don't really "sacrifice" all that much (excluding service members) in the recent conflicts (wars). Life pretty much continues as normal. In the 1984 scenario the people are asked to endure tremendous hardship in the name of patriotism to fight that common enemy. This is more akin to what China has done and is priming to do again.
@@mrgustavoperez In the US, medias often take sides between either the Democrats or the Republicans, which still results in medias full of biases and political agenda. And as much as I often disagree with the way China manage an authoritatian state, I don't think that democracy would work for every nation. Take Singapore for an example. Lee Kuan Yew was a very authoritarian ruler, but he was considered as a benevolent dictator who successfully made Singapore a 1st world nation. Sometimes the best way to develop a country is through authoritative rule, as long as the ruler has the nation's best interest at heart. Not all nations are ready for democracy. Even Libya under Gadhafi is far better off than democratic Libya right now, which is ruined after American intervention.
The reason why China survived for thousands of years is not that it needs an enemy to keep together, it is because its people can unite together to defeat her enemies.
@@serpentza You still do not understand China, In China, the government is like our fathers, which plays a more important role than in the west. Sometimes the government was bad and we Chinese showed no mercy to overthrow it, dozens of times in history, but now our current government is doing well and we trust it, we need and like strong government, if you do not like it, just do not like it. “The eyes of the masses are bright.” you have a lot to learn about China and do not pretend you know everything about China. Criticisms are easy, comments are easy, but the truth is not that simple.
10:20 I've lived in Shenzhen for 4 years. I have seen that look. I get it on the subway sometimes. It's unsettling. Glad to be leaving this place and never coming back really soon.
After seeing all the chinese documentary, it's kinda amazing that I, a Vietnamese, have 2 close chinese friends here in the U.S, one of my chinese friends has a Taiwanese girlfriend and we all have a japanese friend :D
Those old films of people being "Jet planed" (because the arms held back are like the wings of a plane), are a good example of the need for a scape goat. China isn't the only country to have this attitude, we all do in some ways, but they've used mob mentality to great effect and still do. I sometimes think China couldn't have a multi-party political system, because the people would go crazy.
They can, just make it decentralized enough but with mutual interest to the nation. It is hard to do, US is not even proper democracy because it is impossible to properly unite whole continent
@@bertieschitz-peas429 It's the nature of the country. China has pretty much for 2000 years of history after united of 6 States to become Centralize Power. While Europe pretty much have so many countries next to one another. So this kind of history would show you China for pretty much all theirs history all about Big Single Government CONTROL and CENSOR everything while the West is more of Lords vs Lords, countries vs countries pretty much all this time. Thus the type of government will also reflect from this.
This tactic is from Sun Tze - 解内环，制外敌。meaning: to prevent domestic mutiny, the ruler must project an external enemy.
Delphinium Flower not with trump as president as his foreign policy to recall most of the US’s overseas troops back. With the the Clintons, Bushes, and Obama yes, as they were using wars to enrich the military industrial complex.
Delphinium Flower are you not aware that 90% of US foreign based troops have been recalled back? Are you also not aware that John Bolton is aggressively against Trump’s policy and he insisted that some troops has to remain in the Middle East?
Are you not aware that Obama initiated many open and covert wars and Trump has not started even a single war on other countries, with the exception of completely uprooting Isis, where Obama failed to accomplish?
Are you not aware that before Trump rocket man of North Korea was launching many rockets but Trump stopped him?
Are you not aware that Trump is the only US president who is welcomed to step foot in North Korea?
Delphinium Flower it was Obama and John McCain who had created Isis. That’s why the administration of Obama kept (fighting them as visual stunt ) but never really destroy them. Trump administration has uprooted Asia in recent months, but the fake mainstream media played it down.
@@alvinkoh5556 Hi Alvin, you really think Trump is able to withstand such strong forces in the background ... you are a funny guy :-D
Alvin, sometimes the external threat is real. We joke about who is, only when we have control. We do not.
We have exactly same things happening in Russia. Government controls everything and tells everybody that other countries are bad and not us. Thanks for sharing some facts from the history, Winston. You really helped me to understand China better!
@Birdy Flying you mean like the UK blaming the EU? 😂
Not just Russia, it's almost every government 😊 And US is the biggest bully as it needs global conflicts, illegal invasions for perennial wars and stealing resources, continuation of petro dollars and the list goes on. The major difference is that US and other Western powers cause more deaths and destruction in other countries , not their own. 😊 It's very apparent, isn't it?
It happens everywhere, the only way to get out of this cycle is by following ethics and spreading it to other people.
Anarcho-capitalism follows ethics and thats why i believe it would work everywhere.
Nowadays we don't have any choice but to be slaves, but that will change soon, we have ideas and technologies to help spread it such as cryptocurrencies and the internet by our side.
@@shishirsubba713 It is everywhere, thats the way governments can survive nowadays.
How can you enslave people without being confronted? Make the slaves think about something else to worry about, wars are really great at that.
@@Lue1337 anarcho capitalism would work only if the capitalists have lesser greed and more ethics in order to Not Exploit the people.
Yeah! I remember that Olympic Torch thing. I remember seeing a French family get totally screamed at in the PSB. Their young kids were just standing there in shock/ crying.
Yes, there is no place in this world for that kind of hate.
What's a PSB?
A french has been stabbed while in China before.
@@vhvvcvbbdfgacaffa1304 yeah, but that was an isolated incident
Public Security Bureau
It took me almost 2 years to subscribe to your channel, I thought you were too hard against China, but now I understand your RESPECTFUL and directly criticism towards China.
cultural devolution, great leap backwards
me: dead
its not a joking matter
@@henryreinhart5912 We shouldn't be forced to adapt to these silver tongued cunts. Americans, British, and the EU are falling for the fucking bait.
it's not something we should joke about, but the way we make fun of what they actually are makes them funny like the Cultural Evolution (cultural devolution because it was just a big disaster of the deletion of chinese culture) and the Great Leap Forward (great leap backwards because it was just a massacre of people from powerful people who didn't understand the population of China and their agricultural centered lifestyle). We make fun of it because it allows us to ignore all the death and just look at its absurdity for what it was supposed to be and what it actually became.
This is so true. I worked in Nanjing, teaching English to small kids. One particular reader we used described foods from around the world, sushi being one such food. All of my children thought sushi was from China, and when I told them it's actually Japanese, the whole classroom, including some kids as young as four, would growl and say how much they hate Japan. It's a perfect illustration of cultural brainwashing and an inherent aversion to independent thinking.
you know what happened in nanjing did by jp
You will never know what japan did to SEA, you will never understand how the elders gone through this. My aunt gone through this had trauma. It can be forgive, but never forget.
My Grandfather fought in WW2 and had his leg partially blown off by Nazi forces. Tonight, I had beers and an awesome night with a group of Germans. So yeah, I understand. You guys aren't the only ones ...
Anthony Abroad the thing is , Anthony, Germans at least have kneed and pray for forgiveness. They tried to show some regret on medias. Look at Japan? They revised their history book just to erase the part THEY INVADE CHINA AND SLAUGHTER 300 THOUSAND OF PEOPLE( JUST IN NANJING). if you are still in NanJing, there is a WW2 museum about the slaughtering for you.
Yes, I've been there. And the museum was deeply moving and emotional to experience. What happened in China during the Japanese occupation was terrible and horrifying. But maintaining blind hatred towards the second or third generation of an enemy that was destroyed some 60 odd years ago is not only foolish and counterproductive, but is the type of attitude that will lead to violence cause history to repeat itself.
my parents always watch that horrible lie TV serial， that totally as you say. I try to tell the truth about it but you know that's unbelievably hard.
Charlie you do realise Chinese people are capable of recognising those aren’t historical documentaries yet still are able to enjoy them right?
Ask any one who watches those shows, if they believe Chinese farmers actually used steamed bun grenades or torn a Japanese in half with bare hands. They would look at you like you are crazy.
@@bowmanc.7439 They're basically revenge porn, made to cool the wounds of the Chinese national psyche. I call them revenge porn, because in reality, the victims did not get their vengeance, and the villains returned safely to Japan, felt no remorse and suffered no consequences.
@@bowmanc.7439 yeah,but the point is ccp cant through those tv show lie to people， let people believe ccp is great, ccp save china from Japan army，so ccp can salve us easily
@@blackboxsda7853 I disagree，those shows point is tell people something like ccp is god of china
but actually they more like criminal group
As a translator who often thinks about cross-cultural dynamics, I'm so happy that you're speaking openly about your experiences in China and that your content is reaching a wider audience thanks to the translated subtitles. I've learned a lot from your channel and continue to find it fascinating. Keep it up!
Martha Oschwald if you learned anything about China from this guys China’s story from his level of knowledge then you’ve brainwashed by his negative thoughts, I suggest you to go for travel to find out by your own eyes and then make judgement by yourself, by that time I’m sure you have your own vision of China. From his story I only see the negative ... if we talk about negative things about whole wide world, I think we could use our whole life to talk about it because there is no preface world for everyone... but only positive thinking can makes everyone happy and peace ....
You must not be listening to his story then because his channel is very comprehensive and covers a wide range of topics including his opinion on positive and negative aspects of Chinese culture. I suggest you learn how to write with accurate grammar if you'd like for people to take you seriously.
Ignorance is strength. That reminds me so much of the 2 minutes of hate in 1984, the way you described how it can be switched on and off at will.
Exactly!
Thats the exact process - Two Minutes of Hate - in the novel with the screaming and yelling and vacant eyes. Orwelll described it so well (I need to go an find quotes now!). I live in China, and it is indeed amazing to see how children and adults change their attitudes so quickly in lieu of media and news. Experienced it first-hand myself. Like a faucet, yeah... scary, given this is 2019.
GumRamm in 1984,big brother edit the dictionary, and now the CCP edit the dictionary too.because Xin make a mistake on a word “譫养” which should be "赡养",what a big mistake in Chinese.
@Chris Ward damn are u a bot
Perfect literary reference.
I'm Chinese by blood but born in the Philippines. I grew up in a family that migrated here pre-devolution and I gotta say there's a world of difference between us and mainlanders. There's clearly a big cultural gap between the (I'm coining these terms on the fly) "New Chinese" and us "Colonials". Everything you've been saying in all of your videos are right on the money, Winston. Keep up the good work!
what do you think of your new president Duterte pivot to China
almost all chinese outside mainland. specifically younger and christian. eat western propaganda since child, so they are different
@@CreepyDumpling doesnt matter, we are all humans, we should fight for human peace, not authoritarian governments peace.
Just because you have chinese blood doesn’t make u Chinese. Obviously you don’t have the Chinese root! I’m a Chinese born outside China yet the understanding and practice of our values remains. My father left China in the 30s to find greener pastures yet his heart always back home. I remembered how he saved up monies that he earned and send most back to China for his parent and sibling. To built house, to support his nephews’ education and etc etc. this is the values of Chinese. I can’t blame Chris for his videos made become he stand for what he believes and his race. Vice Versa for me. God bless you all.
@@astroboyzwood8720 He is still Chinese, its the same reason that I am Italian despite being born in America.
I think that the most significant point made here is in the title "China NEEDS an ENEMY to Survive!" That statement applies to all countries led by communist or dictators. Keep the populace uninformed about reality, push "your truth", and finally give the people something, other than their leaders, to focus their aggression on. It is a proven method of governance.
Keep saying what needs to be said.
That was hard to watch that old footage at the beginning. So sad.
the war machine
@Delphinium Flower A whataboutism won't change China's tribalistic direction of its citizens to hate the outside world.
My wife's grandfather got that treatment because he was a school teacher. Apparently he never really recovered from it.
@@herewardthewake3185 He was literally spamming
Delphinium Flower LOL. You misunderstand the USA. Nobody (hardly anybody) in the USA cares about anyone in the countries we bomb. They aren’t our enemies because we honestly don’t believe they offer any threat to us. The opposite of love isn’t hate, its indifference. We are, as a society, apathetic and indifferent to the people we bomb overseas. If we hated them we would actually care what goes on and desire to win the wars we are in which would be counter productive to companies that just want to continue selling arms ceaselessly.
Brilliantly explained! I have a Chinese wife (from the Philippines - been married for more than 40 fun years!), and you are so spot on on what you offer in your videos (and so is Laowhy86!). Never stop!
this explains so much why they behave the way they do, thank you
That's how nationalism works. In order to survive, it needs a constant enemy, and the enemy must be inferior to the population/dehumanized in some way.
1984 covered this in depth.
No, it's the same way every ideology and social group - from classical liberalism (vs state regulation) to socialism (vs the bourgeoise) to football hooliganism (vs rival teams) to religion (vs heretics) to business (vs competitors) - works
It's always in-group vs out-group.
Anyone pretending to love everyone equally, without prejudice and preference, is a hypocrite and a liar.
-nationalism- socialism
So thats why u.s.a Always save the world from Aliens??
Ikr, this seems obvious. US has been in perpetual war for this same reason.
That's not nationalism bro, that's authoritarianism, get it right. Nationalism is natural if you have some testosterone, you think Winston doesn't love south Africa?
I agree with an earlier comment. super professional. You are a better presenter than many on mainstream tv. Well done sir
I like that you use the correct terms "devolution" and "backwards"
Yeah me too, seems correct for that time.
It's beautiful
People need to wake up from the spiritual confusion of what is usually called "progress". If you apply a wider view, observe a longer time frame, there is no progress if we do not evolve as human beings. (And I don't mean cybernetics, hah. Transhumanism is another such spiritual confusion.) To this day the human world is still as it was thousands of years ago. A different wallpaper makes people think they're in another room. - Wise leadership is still very much shunned. The vast majority have other priorities - pragmatic selfishness - which they then of course will find represented in the government. - Merely being reactive can never add anything new, different, anything that isn't already there. That requires acting based on a better world not yet manifest.
@Juke What's wrong with that ?
When China and Chinese people say they have 5000 years of history, what they meant, with or without communist destroying their history, Chinese history and culture are well documented and linear to their origin. Egyptians don't really know who build the pyramids and their culture, language and writings are now different from past Egyptians. Also, I agree with you to a certain extent that China uses outside enemies to promote unity. Who doesn't? The US always use flag burning Muslims to give a reason to hate them. Furthermore, the world has always looked at China as the outsider with fear. As to the Hauwei case. The endstate is that the US knows there is no way that we will beat China with 5G so we pulled a Tanya Harding on China. Simple as that.
I am someone who has a extreme passion for discovering history and the beauty of other cultures. Looking at history, I have to say that the loss of true chinese culture is one of the greatest injustices of the word, culture wise.
Yes, but as much as it is injustice, it is more of unfortunate mistake, that is why China absorb so much Japan/korean culture these days, but in the end it is all an cause/effect, Anime/Kpop might not be as popular as today if China had their own traditional culture preserved and spread across the globe.
@JT Yang pretty much all of the above, IMO anything before the last dynasty fell.
Dude, you rock that suit. I saw you recently in San Deigo near La Jolla. Between your suit and wife....I mistook you for a movie star.
Oskar Potter 🤣
Don’t be telling the Commies where he lives, they are tracking him
History is meant to be learnt from，not to fuel hatred and division.
Some people are just dumb. Some people just want War.
There is a term for what the CCP is doing. Revanchism.
@stefan matvei swietoniowski short term profits will be their long term loss
I used to think like that before. But so many people still hate from what was done to them in the past. Native Indians are still angry, African Americans still angry, hawaiins still angry.. Muslims, Jews, Palestinians are still angry.. I’m starting to change my mindset. History teaches us what we can expect from others. We must never forget.. because sometimes history is all we have.
@@Jimmy-er2mc but all of them are missing the important part of history. To move forward, be the change you want in the world. YES some assholes can still choose live in the past, I wouldn't blame them history is made of prejudices, war, deceit, corrupted politics and suffering. But, to not move forward, to not see what's for the future, is to live an empty life as only a vessel to repeat things that are really petty and pointless in the first place. I wouldn't want to change your opinion, humans are different and I want to be kept that way. Because allowing people think differently is what makes us human.
this is so true, my family left China when i was 9 and even after that it took me years to drop my resentment of Japan and Japanese students. It was conditioned into myself and my classmates in China to associate merely the word "japan" with horriblness, the way you would with the word "nazi". The whole gluing people together like this was evident even when i was in grade school. I was in China during the Diaoyudao island protests and stuff and even my classmates were furious and angry at Japan. To the point where i was legitimately surprised that, after i arrived in Canada, nobody seemed to even know about the atrocities Japan had done. they give you something to be mad at, and that's ALL you can be mad at.
It's not just with the war fantasy dramas either, it's with all of education. In school, everywhere you see is about the war and the horrible japanese. in all the classes, Chinese, English, Music, Science, even Math, is filled with propaganda that Japan is Bad and the Communist party (frankly, they never taught any of us what communism *means*) is Good. When a child grows up in that environment, it's hard not to think everything they want you to. To them, the rape of nanjing didn't happen in ww2, it happened yesterday. And if the people of China didn't stick together and be strong, they'd do it again tomorrow. (That's not something i made up, a teacher of mine actually said this to the class)
Thank you so much for sharing this with everyone. And please, be careful. I would advise you to never go back to China again as long as it's still under the Communist party's rule. They have made more important and visible people disappear before. I'd hate for that to happen to you.
Megan is so right. Get the hell out of Dodge and ASAP. I am amazed that you are still alive, seriously.
thank you for sharing your experience, I have had so many bad experience with other chinese people from china, I hate to think they're bad people, I like to blame the people who are running the conuntry and not the people themselves
Asking Chinese not to resent Japanese atrocities in China is like asking a Jewish person not to resent Nazi atrocities. It's simply unreasonable.
Same thing is constantly happening in the Balkans. And let's not forget that former Yugoslavia was once a communist country. The same patterns , same fears ,beliefs can be evoken whenever those in charge have a need to do it. And people? They do grab the "story"immediately ,but in years passing by, they're somehow getting tired of it. They don't fight the governmnet ,cause they are still afraid opposing the leader ,but somehow they don't really care about the war or "enemies" anymore , they re passive and certainly having bigger life problems then fighting they're neighbours.
So well said. Like!
it took me a moment to realize you weren't just describing 1984
Xielle Zhang That's a scary thought.
the thing with 198-4 is that the film itself is propaganda, more so than its a warning. the way the director of that movie filmed the whole thing, is only through the eyes of the protagonist, you (the viewer) are left in the dark about what anyone else is doing. This is done so when the main (only-)character gets caught and demoralized through torture, you the viewer feel the exact same feelings, demoralization, I dont want that to happend to me. You have been blindly put in his shoes. If you are familiar with how propaganda works, demoralization is the main weapon used to dismay, control people into inaction, the other one, ironically, being familiarization itself, als known as normalization.
Khajiit Hadwares
its not film, but Orwell book. Its hard toread it and not be depressed. I think Animal Farm from this author is better. It shoud be in every scool
Orwell was his fictional pen name, his real name was Eric Blair, and he was politically involved with the war and regime propaganda.
'At the outbreak of the Second WW, Orwell's wife Eileen started working in the Censorship Department of the Minstry of Information in central London, staying during the week with her family in Greenwch.
Orwell also submitted his name to the Central Register for war work,
but nothing transpired. "They won't have me in the army, at any rate at
present, because of my lungs"
In August 1941, Orwell finally obtained "war work" when he was taken on full-time by the B.B C's Eastern Service. He supervised cultural broadcasts to India to counter propaganda from Nazi Germany designed to undermine Imperial links. This was Orwell's first experience of the rigid conformity of life in an office, and it gave him an opportunity to create cultural programmes.
"Eric Blair (Orwell) became instrumental in organising the Maximist's propaganda campaigns, helping to turn the Maximists into a major party in Britain with his popular short novels which encorporated totalist themes."
In September 1943, Orwell resigned from the BBC post that he had occupied for two years.
Here's an ancient Chinese wisdom:
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@Masked Singer not really. He just described how the system works. And it is nothing new, as same methods are used in some western countries as well.
As a chinese american not only do I agree with you, but am also shocked at the similarities this has with the US as well. The only difference is that in the US the aggression has been turned inwards
edit: it seems like leftist regimes have a lot in common
Could you clarify?
@@Dionaea_floridensis I guess he couldn't lol
Your scripting just continues to improve, Winston. Great subject choices and well-illustrated stories that are well-told. Without your channel, ADV China and Laowhy86's videos, I really don't believe I'd have the clearer vision of what China is today. Thank you.
Chris Ward Hi there Chris! I know you!
@Chris Ward
If you disagree with a particular news source, does that make it "fake news?" That is certainly Trump's rather obvious ploy. If he doesn't like what he hears from a news organization or individual, he calls it "fake news" or ridicules the person making the statement he disapproves of. Tactics like these and calling people you disagree with schoolyard taunts, should be the province of children, not the so-called leader of the West. I avail myself of many news sources and opinions before I form a firm opinion of my own. In light of new evidence, I may have to change that opinion. What I make certain I always do, is not issue sweeping declarations of who is false and who is not. Reason needs to prevail, not emotion.
It is Machiavellian thought: If you do not have an enemy, you must create one. This unites your people and helps calm unrest against the government. Kind of like that silly Independence Day movie where militant aliens invade Earth and all countries come together to combat a common enemy. Fictional show, real life phenomenon.
BTW, that corvette in the background of this video is _so_ beautiful. That Stingray is one of my favorite generations of Corvette. I had a C4.
I made a similar comment above, Mencius has a similar idea
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. ... The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.”
George Orwell
People don't look at the cracks in their own system when they're too busy being told to look at everybody else
HAHA I laughed my ass off when there's talk about TV war fantasy drama's playing all day every day and there's a bunch of old timers watching it so intensely.
This is the psychology of group identity politics 101.
I spent about a week in Shanghai and Nanjing in 2014, when the dispute about the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands was very heated. Every CCTV news channel had anti-Japanese stories and commentary running continuously. You could tell it was coordinated by the government and was meant to manipulate Chinese viewers. I went to Japan directly after that, and there was nothing negative at all being said about the Chinese.
Of course, the US has needed the threat of outside enemies to band Americans together, too. The Soviet Union in the past, Iran and China increasingly these days.
You'll probably see this a lot more often now that China has plateaued.
I'm from mainland and I've been living overseas for several years, and now I think the discrimination is actually happening the most among Chinese people.
I agree with you 1000% Chinese are the most racist people. See how they treat non white people and south Asian people.
That I can agree to after studying with PRC students (not all of them are bad btw; the best litmus test is to mention Taiwan). PRC Chinese are hostile towards ethnic Chinese outside China as well.
4starKT Nah, they mainly murder Uyghurs and Falun Gong members (estimates range into the millions). And btw, cops don’t run around murdering indiscriminately, 99% of cases were self defense or covered under good faith at worst
This is true, if you read China's history, you will learn the one that killed the most Chinese are not foreigners or outside invasion (although lots of them are dead). The one that killed the most Chinese in every dynasties are CHINESE from Power Struggle, Corrupted Official and more.
Just look at Communist and Nationalist, Mao Zedong who lead Communist killed lots of Nationalist for power after Nationalist drove away Japan. Then Mao Zedong killed more Chinese to make Hitler look like a Saint in comparison.
@4starKT you don't have to be in a kkk or Nazi to be racist.
I have been in China during the anti Japenese rallys and demonstrations (2010). I studied at a university. Every student was forbidden to leave the campus for half a week because of these protests. Even foreigner students (including me) were only allowed to shop at walmart and go directly back to campus... The government / university council were baning any participation of students in this protests and locking up a full campus of 20.000 students. I have made a totally different experience than you. (?)
Remember that time CNN did a story like this? ... yeah neither do I.
Not sure what CNN said, but in China, this is true. Chinese hate Hongkongers, Taiwanese, Korean, Japanese, American, British, the West with democracy and Muslims. It is mainly due to all medias in China is state controlled. Their rhetoric are always about how China was shamed for years and now is the time to hit everyone back. Any critics against China is being treated as attack to all Chinese.
serpentza you came long way from your first video from Shenzhen. I appreciate it and support your family :)
Hi Winston,
This type of behavior has been used from way back in time, truth is the only remeady, respect for each other and love of neighbor, this has to be taught.
People have been trying for last 300 years, very little success.
@@profearoum Don't LIE, your religion teaches VIOLENCE & DECEPTION. And regarding RACISM and SLAVERY, actually you guys deserve the GOLD MEDAL.
Love thy neighbor teaches love thy neighbor
This is the most relevant video on youtube right now. Great work.
Another interesting video Winston. Thanks again and greetings from Ireland!
cant wait to see more, who agrees ?
Love your video's man. Great content. It's so good to get an explanation of China from someone who's lived in China and understands it as an outsider.
You make some points, it is rarely to see some one learning so deep about China, but still it's sort of scratching from the surface.
“The great devolution and the great leap backward”
*The Gang of Four would like to purge you now*
1984 - We've always been at war with Eastasia :-)
Have you ever heard of anarcho-capitalism?
I think you would like it.
Erusia has been invaded by the Osean Federation.
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. ... The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.” George orwell
Winston, i like your contend, but im especially impressed by your last 2 videos. Really good presentation , eloquent, professional and far above youtube standarts. Great to see the evolution of your channel!
I remember when Serpentza would open his videos with, “if you’ve come to talk politics, you’ve come to the wrong place”.
stefan matvei swietoniowski Yes, I’m aware
Very happy to see a fellow South African changing the world with your videos. Truly inspiring, I love your perspective and the manner in which you deliver, very informative and real life issues that we can all relate. Big ups to you bru. I would be honoured to meet you one day.
Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻
Thanks mate
you are here!!!
Does India too suffer from such a problem Karl?
@@Rusikulya No
@@Rusikulya prob Pakistan.
That was about the most enlightening 15 minutes on China I have ever seen. Well done.
The irony of you name is not lost on me. 1984
Churchill was waaaaay before the 80S dude. Congratulations you just played yourself
@@johnsmith-wx5fb Winston Smith, 1984, George Orwell? Oh never mind.
@@harveysmith100 dont try and wriggle out of it now .mistakes were made. Own em
@@johnsmith-wx5fb John, have you been on the beer because you off tomorrow?
@@harveysmith100 hi just read 1984 damn! What was i thinking? Duh! My apologies
China definitely has long history. I can still read the text written on bamboo scripts written 2000 years ago. The Chinese writing characters hasn't change too much.
Brandy Wasay 😂
@Brandy Wasay he is saying the truth, I can read it as well, I can't figure out why a foreigner like you so confident about you know China better than us, at least we can read your language(but I never said I know west) I bet you can't type a single Chinese character to commuicate with us
"Better than 60-Minutes".
Seriously
As a German: that was all to familiar .. Serpentza puts my thoughts on tape.
only seen a couple of your videos, but your views are consistent with other westerners that have worked in China. You make a lot of sense. Enjoy your vids.
@Chris Ward no, i know economists and businessmen.
Our government never say foreigners are bad, we are willing to build good relation throughout the world including the US and Japan. It's never officially encouraged to hold anti-japan activities but only discouraged. You can comment and criticize, but not throw mud.
our government also do something wrong sometimes. and i don't like it
@@hhh-uw4ut but the western imperialist are perfect? Not just listen what they spread, but watch what they actually did.
@@nawtilismaelis2043 wow, it's a good idea to abuse someone innocent as back-stabbing when you has nothing else to insult. Thanks for youtube, eye-opener.
Excellent insights! I was bitterly disappointed when you cats bailed on being located here, but it seems that broadcasting from the free world has really enabled you to take your channel up a notch. Thank you as always for your solid analyses and interesting perspectives.
True, Serpantza....BUT please don't go back to China! Stay safe my friend!
That's exactly what I was thinking. He shouldn't go back unless the place has a regime change or something because if they seen his videos here that seems like it could be a problem.
Yeah but his wife is Chinese.
@@n3gi_ yes, his wife. So he should be able to take her from there
@@matthewstephens6502 To where? South Africa?
@@Dthenn to anywhere he wants to go
Marriage is sacred
thank you for speaking the truth as you see and experience it. Its very helpful for people dealing with social issues everywhere to pause and take perspective of events elsewhere. stay well, stay honest, stay classy!
Hey Winston, in a small way, I think you are changing the world. Keep it up, buddy!
I think US congressmen are watching his videos
One of the best videos you've ever done. I've been to China multiple times, have good friends there and a mainland born GF here in the west now. You are 100% on the mark.
You have been speaking so much truth that I have always wanted to say. Be careful. Keep going. Amazing channel.
@The Bee Guy
Hes not living in China anymore if you haven't noticed.
@Chris Ward celebrates the death machine.
76,702,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese.
Death by Government, political scientist R. J. Rummel, University of Hawaii.
@Chris Ward supported by the god of truth perhaps, ya dam ingrate
@Chris Ward yeeeeee? do you mean REEEE or do you mean YEET?
@Chris Ward "You morons think Mao Zedong is still in power?"
Same system is in power, numbnutz. China is using Falun Gong practitioners, Uighurs, Tibetans, and Christians as forced organ donors $$$. At least 10,000 people died in Tiananmen Square massacre.
Capitalists walk their dogs, Socialists eat their dogs.
Socialism is a belief system where most followers deny reality and the leaders feed on the believers.
It's like about Russia, but on steroids... But the "national need" for Foreign Nemesis is the same...
Agreed. And neither one of us needed $0.50 to say so. It's just that obvious anymore.
and unlike Russia, China actually has money to afford power and influence.
@Scythee 777 (he's speaking /from the US perspective - ie, some elements of the US leadership making a big deal about Russia. Note that he says /about/ Russia. Ie we all agree - China's boogeymen are like some elements in the US', preoccupation with Russia.)
@@kosmosXcannon But amazingly, a lot of people buy it.
@Scythee 777 I was going to say that. The difference is that we can bee-och about it and not get arrested. ( Harassed, maybe, but not arrested. ) It's 1984 Groundhog day/year.
One of the best ones yet.
dude, the difference is Germen polititians apologized for their crime but Japanese govmt never did
war is dirty, no reason to apologize for it. Chinese themselves still behave the way they blame the japanese for doing 80 years ago.
You're pretty much describing Hollywood up to the 2010's here 7:45 hahahaha
Good ole John Wayne? The self-proclaimed racist? Give me a break. He was already a dinosaur in the 70’s. He was also a homophobe that couldn’t praise Nixon enough. Good riddance.
The Great Leap Backward. LOL. Good on e, it's true.
Haha
Joe c ... He left China ages ago!
@@prastagus3 It's crazy just how fast Chinese universities have rocketed up world rankings for both academics and research. The sheer number of talents they sponsor for scholarships to the best foreign schools is proving to be quite effective.
RaidenDerpy jobless white guy has entered the chat
@@prastagus3 yes, impressively. But the government makes me anxious. China can be much more with some serious government reform. And I'm not talking about Pooh thought.
Only commentating on the the title of the video, will watch it later. China do t need an enemy, the CCP do!
Yes, very important to be aware of that.
LOVE you man for sharing your experiences. GREAT video.
"Better than 60-Minutes" ....and, it's more truthful than most of the crap you hear on shows like 60-minutes of BS.
That's his opinion. I personally never openly heard, in 10 years of China, that the US was the enemy. Nor felt threatened in any way. This is not information nor journalism.
@@Cafeston Thanks for spreading the truth @ Pierrick Calvez from what I see in China , foreigners, Americans included are generally so well welcomed ,almost to an unreasonable extent . If anything ,the only REAL hatered is against Japan. but with all that manga and J-pop yong ppl care less and less.
*I came here to learn something practical about China...i didn't came here to watch how grown person has just fugured out simple human psychology at the age of 40.*
Looks like Winston started commenting under his own videos.
Unsubscribing for now.
@@indianajones5929 bye dont come back!
@@Cafeston You don't feel it, but that doesn't make it's not true. This is the tactics China use all the time. You just didn't pay attention or simply ignore it.
The US also have this, you will notice during these trade war, many people often mistaken me for Chinese and I told them "I am a Vietnamese, you dumb ass".
However, knowing so much about China's history, Centralize Government just take this to a whole new level, Vietnam also have this, but LITE version compared to China.
Excellent presentation. Very well enunciated and clarifies so well the "methodology" and achieved intent of communism, the absolute dominance and control of it's people.
totally agree with you, why hate a people because of what their ancestors did,,, so stupid
Spot on ... And no country in the world is squeaky clean!
yup yup yup.
Idiot. Grudges and hate are essential for tribal,ethnic, and national survival. Life is a competition, a great competition for resources and survival. And hatred puts you in a perfect mindstate for that situation.
As a Chinese, i want to say old Chinese culture does't disappeared. Many values or art forms are still learned by us. the culture revolution in 1960s did not destroy the whole traditional chinese culture system. Besides chinese people realized that culture revolution was a total miatake!
I am 100% in agreement with you. The Dazu Rock Carvings in Chongqing are approximately 600 years old, I had visited it, absolutely fantastic. The Ancient City in Guiyang. The Emperors Palace in Shenyang. The Chongqing museum. In the Theatre in Guiyang you can still watch performances by Minority Groups about ancient traditions. etc. I can go on and on. A lot of Chinese Culture from thousands of years back still exist and it was a privilege to visit that places.
Be careful friend I am old enough to remember Mao. Best of luck to you and your family in what has become a very dangerous place for no communists people.
2K Chinese 50 cent propaganda army members have disliked this video.
I was gonna say. Who the freak is disliking these videos so much?? Must be all the brainwashed people, haha!
Not brainwashed people, but actual paid government internet trolls working for the CCP.
Brainwashed commies.
Your insight about your Chinese experience also seem well thought out and thorough. Thank you and keep it up.
Also, western education more and more encourages us to think the abstract, ie putting ourselves in the shoes of others, questioning the status quo. In the US the only way ( and to a point in the UK) to get a top Degree grade is to challenge your teacher, might be wrong, but that's not the issue its the curiosity and challenge to keep all of us from falling into ignorance and thus easily manipulated.
Just like the Catholic Church of the past, the dominant power prefers an ignorant people, thus the church was against the masses reading, in particular, the bible.
So the unchallenged ruling power that controls the narrative, controls the people, as so well explained in your video piece.
Recently in Dubai I spoke to a Filipino says girl in an Apple store who had been raised in Dubai ( whilst waiting for an order), Filipino's are great people, very subservient, and think as a collective. This young girl obviously had talent, but struggled with direction and the usual family pressures. I found myself saying to her remember these two things,
1) Always be curious, never accept an answer unless there is some fact to back it up
2) Don't worry about being annoying, be a pain, rattle the cage.
Equally in the West we need to remember
1) The collective works for large scale projects, ie NHS, Infrastructure,
2) The individual is not God, as the Norwegians believe, 'I am not better than anybody else', Jante Law, ie humility
So as usual its a messy mix of the two, flux and flow. To me the most successful type of governance is practiced by the Nordic form of Democratic Socialism, but always evolving, through fair and free elections, Government transparency and a narrow wage gap.
"Just like the Catholic Church of the past, the dominant power prefers an ignorant people". That's complete bullsh*t. Where did you learn this kind of "fact"? That's a shocking prejudice.
Wow, you have evolved alot! The quality of content in your videos has increased considerably. Really enjoyed it.
Ive always enjoyed his videos
@Chris Ward merely another opinion
What you described is totally referring to the US, British empire ---> Spanish empire --->Germany ---> Soviet union ---> Japan ---> now China.
Oh, are enraged Americans smashing up stores selling Made-In-China stuff? Well, that news haven't gotten out for us in Europe to hear. Thank you for this information.
Studied history for 10+ years, eventually i came to the conclusion that anywhere where there was some sort of economical, societal collapse, or war, the British were involved. All roads lead to London.
You forgot South Africa.....rioters are referred to as protestors.
You are most welcome! But you can't be too sure after American peace maker finally found WMDs or washing powder in another country, smashing stores is way too gentle.
@@AlecLeigh the secret lies in fish and chips
Love ya and Laowhy86, Thanks for the time you spend educating us!!!
The average Egyptian on the street analogy was perfect! Great video! Thanks for sharing!
Modern Egyptian has nothing to do with Ancient Egypt.
Absolutely not considering the Egyptians were conquered and replaced by many people such as the Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Turks. Unlike Egypt, China still possess their blood of their ancestors, use the same writing script as their ancestors, and speak a language which is descended of their ancestors.
Comparing a people, the ancient egyptians to modern egyptians who are now Muslims, Arabs, and speak Arabs to Ancient chinese and modern chinese is idiotic.
@@metal87power A fact that they deny of cause, claim they are direct descendants of the ancients. Greeks too.
@@XtoCee Good point thats what i was thinking im from the horn of africa there were great empires during the time of china being a world power. The port of adulis from the axum empire used to trade with china. So we also like to say we have 4k history etc. This guy is just trying to put doubt in ppls heads. He forgot to mention alot of people actually go to china from Korea and japan to learn traditional medicine he forgot to mention that bit. But we are still the same people from that time so its diff from egypt of course.
@@XtoCee So by your logic, the US is as old as England? And since English is a derivative of Latin, spread by the Romans, and its laws a descended from the Romans, I guess the US is a few millennia old as well.
Of course not.
China today is as related to its history as the CPC is religious. The minority of Chinese who are free to practice their customs and beliefs are the true inheritors of the Chinese culture, and every year, those numbers dwindle.
People are hyper critical of others for the same reason, "Don't look inwards, look outwards".
Mister, I salute you. You did a great job. What you describe follows the same image I gathered about Soviet Union between 1940 to 1950 - the Great patriotic war. I happen to own a book that is full of exactly these ridiculous stories about ordinary soldier-comrades and about their unbelieable valor and self-sacrifice. I don't dislike the sentiment, but I know why they were written. The themes stay same.
Hopefully the government won't find it necessary to force its concerned citizens into stupid patriotic war because system becomes too unsustainable.
@Meljov I won't dispute the stories of bravery of soldiers, who lived and died for their families, their freedom and peace in all the world. I will only say this: Stalin's generals and many heroes from the war didn't live long to enjoy the victory. And that didn't appear in those old sentimental stories.
I truly hope that if you've impacted only one life, it was the life of that boy who had seen the movie and smashed his Japanese toys. I hope that the talk you had with him, stays in his mind forever and triggered a thought process that will create a chain reaction for his children and grandchildren. It has to start somewhere.
I am a new fan and yet I have watched probably 100 videos so far from your various channels... Interesting fact: I have clicked "thumbs up" on every video of yours that I have watched, and that's my honest opinion. Your videos are just flat out great. I have learned an amazing amount. Whatever I have wondered about China in the past (not knowing) has been addressed in your videos. Amazing! You guys are great!
Idea: Imagine creating a new channel "AdvAmerica" which covers any adventure travel anywhere in the Americas, including Mexico, Canada, and including South America... Here's the idea: Since that's AdvAmerica and people over here on this continent are freely commenting, we wouldn't have to worry about tech-savvy folk in China who tunnel through a VPN to comment on that AdvAmerica channel, so we could then talk freely. Here's some further logic: on AdvAmerica I can express my American opinion without having to worry about setting off a bunch of people in China. I don't have to have that hanging over my thought process. I don't want folks in China to be upset. (How could they come on to a channel that is hosted in the US, a service blocked in China, and then claim that we are trying to hurt their 'bums' while they are forced to use an illegal VPN just to be able to see what we're talking about.) Also, we could compare facts about various countries but it's not about China. By starting at a great distance from China, the folks over there, struggling via VPN to see our comments won't have a leg to stand on with any derogatory spam.
"AdvAmerica: not in china, not having anything to do with china, hosted in the US, naturally blocked in china, about travel and adventure in the Americas or any other location in the free world."
Thoughts?
Cheers!
Thank you Winston for all the work that you've put in over the years. I'm wondering, do you think that going into the Peace Corps for an American able to do so, with a post in China, would be a worthwhile experience these days given the climate on the ground?
Yes I do, you will learn a lot
@@serpentza. I've watched your content for about 7 years, since I was in high school. Through your content and some exposure from friends I grew to appreciate China, but the situation on the ground does worry me a bit. Thank you so much for taking the time to respond.
The human zoo by Desmond Morris explains a lot about getting people in a region to unite thru fear and hate of people outside their social environment.
As the Cold War drew to a close Arbatov warned that America would miss the comfortable status quo of the superpower stand-off: "We are going to do something terrible to you," he noted. "You will no longer have an enemy." Georgi Arbatov
bingo!....every country needs a bogieman. If he doesn't exist....you create one!
@@Mattsta2010 and make one THEY DO
Phantom Thief Irwin Yes, the US and the Western world are the ones in need of an enemy, not the likes of China, Russia and devout Muslims like the supremacist OIC. And Islam is a religion of peace 👌🏻
Tras de ladrón, bufón.
Damn dude hit the nail on the head with the IRL examples. Totally saw this myself during my time there.
Nothing like a Mr. Krabs meme to capsulise a geo-economic point.
Orwell’s 1984 explores the “common enemy” doctrine of totalitarian states.
US is not officially a totalitarian states, but it often look for other countries to be painted as the ultimate foe of Americans. Several years ago it was Iraq and Libya. Now it is China.
@@kevinclement1533 Your comment is true but recognize a few differences. First the US does have a Foreign policy strategy that is meant to improve/promote our values and interests worldwide. For better or worse they include antagonizing Iran, Russia, North Korea, Syria and China. Formerly included Iraq and Libya but those are of the table. In the US people, political parties and the media can and do oppose our governments actions, not so in China where everyone must tow the party line. Another thing is that American don't really "sacrifice" all that much (excluding service members) in the recent conflicts (wars). Life pretty much continues as normal. In the 1984 scenario the people are asked to endure tremendous hardship in the name of patriotism to fight that common enemy. This is more akin to what China has done and is priming to do again.
@@mrgustavoperez In the US, medias often take sides between either the Democrats or the Republicans, which still results in medias full of biases and political agenda. And as much as I often disagree with the way China manage an authoritatian state, I don't think that democracy would work for every nation. Take Singapore for an example. Lee Kuan Yew was a very authoritarian ruler, but he was considered as a benevolent dictator who successfully made Singapore a 1st world nation. Sometimes the best way to develop a country is through authoritative rule, as long as the ruler has the nation's best interest at heart. Not all nations are ready for democracy. Even Libya under Gadhafi is far better off than democratic Libya right now, which is ruined after American intervention.
If everyone is too busy hating something
They won't have the time to open their eye to the injustice
Don't question, obey.
thank you for keeping it real Serpentza, that is why you are as successful as you are now, because you keep it HONEST which is VERY appreciated
maria jesus montenegro he is not honest at all about China, he is just trying to make money on his videos by trying to talk what you want to listen
Well said Winston~ your thoughts and insights on the reason for this on-going hate-mongering ultra-nationalism tactic is quite on point
Common sense, the best way to unite most people in one orgnization is to face one enemy. The stronger the enemy, the better.
LOL same logic for the USA, look what happened in the Middle East
I’m Chinese, I totally understand what you are talking about, we need time.
The reason why China survived for thousands of years is not that it needs an enemy to keep together, it is because its people can unite together to defeat her enemies.
Sometimes the government defeats the people
@@serpentza You still do not understand China, In China, the government is like our fathers, which plays a more important role than in the west. Sometimes the government was bad and we Chinese showed no mercy to overthrow it, dozens of times in history, but now our current government is doing well and we trust it, we need and like strong government, if you do not like it, just do not like it. “The eyes of the masses are bright.” you have a lot to learn about China and do not pretend you know everything about China. Criticisms are easy, comments are easy, but the truth is not that simple.
1984: Oceania, Eurasia, Eastasia..
As always.
No dictatorships can stand without enemies.
Thanks for the video Winston.
Winston Smith?....we know how that ended. Rats on the face and a love of BB.
Why would US let itself be an enemy for the China?
@@waszkreslem9306 It was unavoidable I guess.
Every country have its own interests and sometimes they are crossing.
Love your stuff man!
10:20 I've lived in Shenzhen for 4 years. I have seen that look. I get it on the subway sometimes. It's unsettling. Glad to be leaving this place and never coming back really soon.
After seeing all the chinese documentary, it's kinda amazing that I, a Vietnamese, have 2 close chinese friends here in the U.S, one of my chinese friends has a Taiwanese girlfriend and we all have a japanese friend :D
What's happening? Why are you making such incredibly excellent videos?! I keep being more and more impressed by the quality of your work.
This is World Class Journalism.
Because they're no longer "Made in China".
Those old films of people being "Jet planed" (because the arms held back are like the wings of a plane), are a good example of the need for a scape goat. China isn't the only country to have this attitude, we all do in some ways, but they've used mob mentality to great effect and still do. I sometimes think China couldn't have a multi-party political system, because the people would go crazy.
Democracy is only really for white people.
They can, just make it decentralized enough but with mutual interest to the nation. It is hard to do, US is not even proper democracy because it is impossible to properly unite whole continent
@@bertieschitz-peas429 It's the nature of the country. China has pretty much for 2000 years of history after united of 6 States to become Centralize Power. While Europe pretty much have so many countries next to one another.
So this kind of history would show you China for pretty much all theirs history all about Big Single Government CONTROL and CENSOR everything while the West is more of Lords vs Lords, countries vs countries pretty much all this time.
Thus the type of government will also reflect from this.
Another interesting video from a guy with unique experiences / perspectives.
Every perspective is unique...
I love the spongebob meme with mr crabs. Depicts chinese government 100% accurately