A lot has changed in two years. Would be great to get an update since this video was made. In that time, U.S. and NATO troops have been talking about mobilizing for general war against Russia. There's also been many Western contractors fighting on the side of the Ukrainians and many Chinese PLA veterans have joined the Russian military. Then we have the U.S. State Dept. floating the idea of sending Ukraine weaponry that will be used to conduct more strikes into Russia. That will mean Russia may be forced to take out staging areas inside NATO countries.
Really disappointed with the quality of the translation. It's not just very loosely translated. Some sentences are barely related to the original or even mean the opposite. Here's a few examples of what the correct translation should be. Please judge for yourselves. 1:06 Personally, I think it might be too harsh to describe it as an "invasion". 4:08 dispatched their armed forces 4:23 They aimed their guns and missiles at Russia's door 4:53 (second sentence) if we can sign a treaty then we'll try not to resort to violence. 5:06-5:20 We shouldn't step in because Ukraine provoked the situation in the first place. Russia has been provoked, but it has not been invaded. 5:53 but we can urge them to stop or share our views. 6:15 We won't send weapons to the battlefield (meaning they won't contribute to the war) 8:19 blatantly (not blindly) 9:02 to tackle intense situations 12:20 I hope that the US can stop meddling in issues like this in the future so that there can be world peace. 15:18 The US benefits from our conflict. (Literally: The US is watching the tigers fight（观虎）. The Chinese saying 坐山观虎斗 "sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight" means to watch in safety whilst others fight then reap the rewards when both sides are exhausted) 16:45 no family can bear the pain of losing a loved one.
some of the mistranslations drastically change the meaning of what was spoken. 6:14 The translation was "We wont't abandon the situation either." when it should have been "We would not supply arms to either sides." 12:19 The translation was " I hope the US can stop this situation" when it should have been "I hope that the US would refrain from intervening in the war, so that the world in general would be more peaceful."
In fact, China's consultation and freedom of speech are much better than those in the West. The western media are full of lies! Why do European and Western media dare not prove that they report China? That's because China is more fair and free of speech than them. Americans call a picture of a Chinese school a Chinese concentration camp. It's ridiculous that the whole west believes it!! Because Americans can start a war with a bag of washing powder!!! So the overall IQ of westerners is really not high! It's easy to be brainwashed by the media!!
@@havocrein I don't agree. Some of us grew up in a conflict zone and know how important it is to think outside the box you are given at birth. To talk to people. To share similar and different experiences and to read and learn. Whilst we have bias it isn't the same thing as being brain washed.
Thanks for the video! I wanted to point out some translations that could be better: 1:05 "I personally think the invasion is quite extreme" should be "I personally think the word 'invasion' is too extreme" 5:10 "We shouldn't step in because this is Ukraine's issue" should be "We shouldn't step in because Ukraine is the one who provoked Russia" 14:36 "First of all, the US has Taiwan's back..." should be "First of all, Taiwan's boss, the US, won't agree to it" edit: adding 6:15 "We won't abandon the situation either" should be "we also won't send weapons to (either Ukraine or Russia)" from user Rhapsody in comments
@@goodboi8569 Maybe there is no malice, but I have seen this same happen on other videos of them interviewing Chinese people, and I think the twisting of meaning is in a generally consistent direction.
As a Chinese I would say this is a good representation of what peoples views are in our country. No matter we support or condemn, peace and empathy is always above all.
are the translations correct? because some comments say otherwise and you never know who to trust online so I thought i might ask a chinese person in the comments
I totally condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But for those who have a bad view of the old man's opinion. First you have to remember what his generation went through, the sacrifices they had to make for the current generation. Before China became an economic superpower they were always bullied by the west, who helped their country a lot back then only Russia. He saw many things that the present generation does not see.
True, but I would add that with a higher expectation for economic abundance and choice, there also needs to be a higher expectation for an abundance of information he must gather for him to be informed with. Spouting Russian propaganda is kind of hard to excuse, like chiding your politically incorrect grandpa
Is China the only Country that have been bullied by West? The continent of Africa were bullied by the West and stripped of all their mineral resources in the past by the West till this present day but they aren’t even talking about it. Some Chinese have that colonial mindset when they travel to the continent of Africa
his opinions might be considered naive or uninformed nowadays but he has experienced stuff that younger western people have only read about on history books, if that. china has a very tough history with the west in particular with europe wreck havocking their land for political and economical interest, not to mention their recent hardships with japan during WWII and with the US during the cold war. dude sees a leader allegedly protecting his country from the west, he's gonna have admiration for it. can't be helped. i don't agree with him, but we can't nor should blame or shame him for his stance.
@@SpookiBunny it’s just, he called Putin, the most feared, hated, brutal person on the whole planet a “man’s man”. I all of a sudden don’t want to be a man anymore, like I’ll be a vegan fish instead, my species has failed me
12:20 the lady meant "I hope US stop intervening (or provoking) and making this kind of situation", not "I hope US will stop the situation". These are completely opposite.
Honestly I would care how this is translated if there weren't many angry Chinese people getting all worked up that there's people with different opinions in this video. 😂😂😂 but thanks for the correction. I didn't know that error was there.
@@rory9698 in fact, in all their Chinese videos, they distort people's words. They have Chinese people working on their team; therefore, I don't think it's that hard to translate things word for word. I don't know why they choose to make people sound more aggressive or distort people's words to mean entirely different things such as this error above. This is not 1 or 2 videos. This happens in every video, and if you add them up, the number of errors is quite high, making me wonder if they r purposely trying to distort people's words. I am a perfectionist I can't bear with that...
I love how Chinese view America as the ones provoking the situation. Countries like Ukraine, Kosovo, and Georgie have been begging Europe to join the EU and Nato. Its hilarious seeing the authoriatarian bootlickers try to blame other countries for fuckups. America is retarded, but at the very least had a coherent justification behind its invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. China seemed to want to invade Tibet, because apparently to free tibetan slaves, "Glorious mao zedong must arise from the heaven" and become the new tibetan slave masters. I used to be partial towards these types of politics, but after Ukraine, im in genuine disbeleif, over how China, a nation I thought atleast had good leaders now, would even support Russia after what they did. America may be incompetent, but atleast the Americans arent bootlickers. Jesus christ.
At 12'19", the translation: "I hope US can stop the situation and give the world some sense of peace."is the opposite of what the women in green says. She said, "I hope US stop intervening things like this [war] forever, then the world will be in peace."
Смотри украина спровоцировала Россию начать эту операцию из-за не выполнения минских договоренностей украинская пропаганда пропитала запад они до сих пор считают что крым мы забрали силой и что мы ввели туда войска но они там и так были
So Putin can attack neighboring countries???? Greets from Finland 🇫🇮 former neutral country now member of NATO. We still hope we can live in peace with Russian people. Both Sweden and Finland join Nato so Putins attack on Ukraine was maybe not so clever if Putin in reality are worry of Russian security. Now he destroy Russia and Ukraine with his personal dictator diseas, compleet idiot.
It interests me how the people say "the Chinese government is very against it" but to my knowledge the government had made no such statements. Correct me if im wrong, and I may be but china and russia are very close so I don't see any statement like that being made publicly.
@@sowersass2 they are against it. You just won’t notice if you only pay attention to public speeches they give to audiences that include the international community, because they don’t like stirring up too much trouble. They don’t want a criticize an ally and they don’t want the USA to come out looking like the “good guys” because to China the US is a huge bully who always harass them and send agents to destabilize them and also use propaganda against them and even send scholars/diplomats to threaten countries that get close to China. So yeah it won’t be easy spotting overt words that reveal their thoughts on the invasion. You’ll have to interpret their words and position. They say they support territorial sovereignty, in which case it’s Russia violating that. They also see themselves in Ukraine’s position and the USA as Russia using a BS genocide (against Uyghurs or ethnic Russians) as the excuse to invade. In private I’ve heard people in CPC I know saying this invasion is a disaster (that being said the CPC is almost 100 million people, practically everyone is in or knows someone in the CPC so it’s not like it’s a monolith with one single opinion).
It doesn't matter what ordinary people think, but what the Party wants the tone to be. Also bear in mind this is Shanghai, 20million people, supposed to be a more liberal place. Non costal areas will be way more hawkish and that is what we need to worry about.
@@sowersass2In fact, in China's interest, what we really want is for the US to withdraw from Ukraine and for Russia to stop invading Ukraine. So we are neutral in this problem. Actually, China also have territorial disputes with Russia.
@@LouisTsuiful This guy here is faking to be a Chinese. Don't mind him guys. In his message he says "we don't spread info about supporting any side", yet he supports Russia. Definitely a troll. He is impersonating Chinese people. What a douchebag.
If we compare the views and disscussion of the Chinese and other street interviews in other countries. Obviously Chinese citizens are more independent and objective and express their own opinions more freely. I think if there is someone from the western society watching this video. They can understand how much differences of their impression about the China and Chinese compare with their western media propaganda.
One thing should be added, most people I found online don't think China and Russia are ally. Because China pursue a no ally policy, meaning we don't have any ally, only partner or closed relationship from common interests, and most Chinese believe the famous Churchill's saying:"no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests." We don't take responsibility for other country's action or its own threat.We don't take actions or solid stand until our own safety and interests is threaten.
You can't blame the west. Ukraine wants to be part of the EU. They see greater economic prospects with free democracies and open markets. They see the Russian way of corrupt oligarchy as being backwards and something they experienced after the Soviet collapse till the Maidan revolution. They also want to joint NATO AFTER Russia illegally seized Crimea and made these fake independent Donbass cities with protracted fighting lasting years between Crimea and now.
@@johnl405 but, try to put youself into Russian shoes, Why NATO break the promise "no eastward expandsion" 5 times. Russian think NATO push them into corner. Ukraine can just keep neutral or just join EU instead of NATO
The first woman interviewed, she said that the word “invasion” was a strong word’ . The subtitle interpreted it as she thought that the invasion was too much or terrible. There is a huge discrepancy in what she meant!!
I strongly recommend Asian bosses to go to 『Taiwan』 to interview the same issue, to see the difference between Taiwanese and Chinese on the issue of Russian invasion of Ukraine, I think it will be very interesting!
@@xiajiayu3443 both NATO and Russia could go rot their organizations for all I care. I'll forever stand with the real victims of this political non sense.
Here is the underestimated thing. You see a lot of Chinese comments supporting Russia, don't take it serious, cause we got fking 1.4 billion ppl. And you see a ton of Chinese comments supporting Ukraine, don't take it serious either, cause we got fking 1.4 billion ppl LOL. The similarities are in every field, like food, politicians, cars, nations whatever u name it. It's just so hard to describe China, so freaking big, and complex.
@UChwGBq6FE90dDBJaD3yXMWg I would say, obviously u have no idea about Chinese social media, instead of official stance, there are still a lot of different voices, the reason I already give to u. And you are totally biased ether, I think this happened in every corner all over the world that ur local gov has the majority of supporter. Just look in a mirror to find out.
Unfortunately, I don't often come across interviews of Chinese citizens, although I'm always curious about what they think and how they talk about things. It seemed to me that due to Chinese censorship and isolation, people would respond with anti-American propaganda narratives, but I was wrong. I’ll even say more, I’m a little shocked at how the Chinese talk about the problem and what different but always humane opinions they have. I want to express my admiration for your peacefulness.. sending love from Georgia 🇬🇪 ❤ 🇨🇳
"censorship" LOL, you have no idea about the occident' censorship and suppression of criticism/mal-information ! You have to understand that 'malinformation' is defined as TRUTHFUL information that does not fit well with the official narratives.
@@Фёдор-з3п Russophobia.... Russians are so deluded in their own lies it's scary... what is anti-RuZZian propaganda? that you guys started war with us twice in 35 years? that Putler needed Gagra military port and pass through Caucasus via Tskhinvali? Even your opposition leader called us rats and wanted to nuke us in 2008... stop victimizing yourselves, you aren't right in this conflict at all... first time RuZZia was attacked since WW2 was the Kursk invasion, and after you yourself invaded Ukraine, not special operation or anything, an INVASION! on the other hand none of RuZZia's neighbors have anything nice to say about them...
I noticed a lot of the ppl didn't know that China has good relationship with BOTH Ukraine and Russia. China imported massive amount of agricultural product and natural resource from both countries. Even our first aircraft carrier was built with the unfinished Varyag vessel in Ukraine. Of course we don't want to see two of our buddies fighting each other, nor to pick any sides. Russians and Ukrainians are both Slav ppl in origin, I hope they can live in peace toghther like a family.
@@kurtgomez4171 "HAD" a good relationship because by the end of this war, Ukraine may be no more right? Since you are new to geopolitics, sit down and wait for your answers.
@@kurtgomez4171 no no no, the Ukrainians will have their dream fulfilled, becoming a part of European Union, as refugees. And Russians will have their buffer state. What a win win scenario lol
@@xipengwang2818 Buffer state? Except if Putin takes Ukraine, Russia will then literally be surrounded by NATO countries on it's Eastern side. I mean what?
This is actually very eye opening for me. I never realized just how similar citizens of different countries are in terms of awareness and level-headedness. We shouldn’t have to pay for our governments’ petty disagreements.
Very true, we as citizens are seemingly inconsequential. Politicians in every nation do as little as possible to keep the majority of us just happy enough they maintain power to do their own bidding. The societies with the highest living standards and least likely to be in conflicts are those whom have more citizen's in agreement, where politicians are held accountable and freely elected from a larger demographic of policy.. That's not Russia, China or the U.S..
I've noticed this in Russia as well but support for Russia seems to be divided along generational lines. Younger people seem to be more likely to condemn the war while the older seems to support it.
Actually the trend is this: people young or old who are familiar with politics, would generally empathize with ordinary citizens of Ukraine, but more or less support (or understand) Russian actions _ this is very apparent outside of the west. While most of the people young or old who didn't familiar themselves with politics, generally, condemned Russian actions.
@@josephathorvey9479 So, let me just try to understand what you're saying. People who aren't familiar with politics are the ones condemning Russia's actions. And people who are familiar with politics understand Russia's position and empathize? If that's what you're trying to say, I have to disagree. Within Russia, the people supporting the war are one's who rely on the state media. Even in this case, it's divided along generational lines as younger people are more likely to rely on media from the internet rather than the state. It's the same thing outside of Russia and the west. People who rely on media outside of the confines of the state, will always have a broader view. And it's obviously younger people who are more likely to do this. It has less to do with how much politics you pay attention to and more about what types of media you are consuming.
@@477sierraForsed to disagree. A persons opinion made up of his real experience of life in his native country. Person might not have media but could hear many different opinions in his life. Society in Russia, for the most part, strives for peace. But there are things for which society is ready to kill: 1. You can’t mock the memory of generations and 2. hatred for the West (hatred is grown by the west itself). Unfortunately The West understands this very well and plays with our lives. More or less sane citizen of Russia understanding that ucranians are victims of events. But Russia has no other way than to break military plans NATO in the region. Iam wathching all news in the world But I see many lies about Russia (best lies from CNN and BBC and Ucranian news). Unfortunately our opinion not want to hear Europe (Russia's main partner). All gowerments of more countries controlled by one headquarters. My country is weaker against such propaganda. No we have sunctions and I do not know what to expect in future. Our salary down, prices up. But people in the greater mass only began to hate the West even more. NEED this conflict to relocate on the territiry USA and Britain - is it opinion of a reasonable population of the country. Because "English world" is the WARMONGER. First to clear ucrain than bringing to justice the WEST. The West should not count on the revolt of the people of Russia. The majority will be for their country, for peace, for cooperation. Only the West has aggressive intentions.
to choose the side one must get the understanding of what`s going on. most people don`t want to bother themselves to seek reliable info or don`t have time, ability...
@@josephathorvey9479 you are right. Here in finland. most ppl only read the juicy gossips and have no idea whats really happening so putin is bad. while those who pay attention know that putin rly had no choise bcause the murican/ukranian provocation.
this is propaganda. no one can go around china with pro video gear and asking random people on the street political questions without ccp permission want to see real chinese view? use vpn go on weibo and chinese tiktok
You made the old man's day having him express his (rather conflicted) opinion on current issues over an interview rather than chatting with his friends in a park 😂
Lord in Heavens. Thats is why the world will always need progressive and educated youth. The younger generation are so balanced in their views and desires. This old man sound just like my father; the inconsistent logic and warmongering added to the self righteous vehemence drives me bonkers...sure, Putin is a God among leaders because he protects his people and territory with a strong and heavy fist, but no, we will absolutely should not do the same to Taiwan because brothers dont harm each other. My eye rolls are hurting my brain.
@@Marc-. that's not mature. His intentions were good and I really think the old man would be such a cool person to meet. But I'm sorry, he was delusional. He was so blinded by his hate to the west, while worshipping Russia's Putin. Why should Russia's concerns be more important the Ukraine's thoughts on their safety. Do they really think Russia will be threatened but not Ukraine when it's beside a behemoth like Russia and a psycho for president. Was really disappointed in his opinion. But I've see a lot of old ppl like him that are usually good natured ppl, just misinformed and sticking to their stubborn narrative. Supporting Russia isn't supporting peace.
@@brandonhinojosa4202 the US would still not invade Mexico regardless. That's not how it goes. The US isn't like Russia, there are millions of people allowed to protest against the tyranny if it happened. Besides if the US invaded Mexico, because Mexico was seeking safety in Russia, then I would stand with Mexico. So no I wouldn't feel the same way as the old man. Also the US didn't threaten to weaponize Ukraine! Remember that Russia started the war, even before Ukraine wanting to join NATO.. they started to bully Ukraine from the time of Crimea. And NATO isn't an offensive alliance, it's a defensive one. And they wouldn't originally accept Ukraine because it wasn't democratic and was too corrupt but it's just sad. And if Russia is making all those around it afraid of it, how is it the fault of those countries? And they were right. Look at Ukraine now, it's already being invaded despite Putin lying a week ago, saying he wouldn't invade.
Good interview and it does represent the general sentiment in China. A few interesting observation to share: 1) Chinese can generally relate to Putin's decision for war and still generally support russia, but they are also symphathetic to Ukrainian citizen (notice none have said much about Ukrainian gov) and is against war. Some Chinese (the minority) stand on the side of Ukraine more than russia. 2) They think that China should not intervene. 3) Most of them blames NATO and US more. 4) The girl refers to Xi as winnie the pooh and gets away with it. This debunks the idea that winnie the pooh is a forbidden subject in China. No secret police is going to go after you if you say Xi is like winnie the pooh. 5) One guy wish that China will have leader like putin and says it will be interesting. He is not alone and many people in China feels that Chinese gov is too soft on some issues. If China is a liberal "democracy", then there will be war already in Taiwan and South China Sea.
@@qwkl2450 oh there are many. Take the toxic Chinese internet community for example. And the fact that there should be an increased police presence in local bars given that in my hometown I'm seeing brawls happening in such place recently.
@@typicalchineseguy5818 Toxic people are everywhere and more police presence in local bars is almost irrelevant to not offend you. Can´t compare with all the media censorship and games regulation for people under 18. Im no saying its something bad but it´s pretty strict
@@Yangpeiling-de-zhangfu collapsing houses (literally and figuratively), flooding, several civil rights violations, and threating multiple sovereign countries. I know if you look up the imformation, your family can get imprisoned, tortured, or even killed. So, I'll leave ya with that.
i lived in edinburgh 17 years ago for like a week. great memory always in my heart, it feels like last year. it changes permanently what I see the westerners, the british ,the scottish.
So you have no problem when they say that Russia is wright in invading Ukrain? They talk about peace and accuse the US and NATO but are trying to invade Taiwan and claim seas that are not theirs. Is that peace?
Russia now still illegal invaded and occupied 290 0000 square kilometers land originally belong to China , The Soviet Union encouraged Outer Mongolia to independence from China in 1994, with an area of 1.6 million square kilometers. Due to China's neighbor in the north, China lost a total of 4.5 million square kilometers of territory. The biggest damage to China in terms of territory was Russia and its predecessor
Most of them don't like Putin's violent approach, but they sympathize with the motivation, because they understand what it's like to have the West stationing troops and installing weapons all around your country. Which side comes out stronger is different for each person. EDIT: To people who just want to parrot NATO propaganda... why are you watching a video on the perspectives of people in other countries? So you can say they're wrong without trying to understand them?
Yeah and all those small countries bullied by China and Russia (Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Phillippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Mongolia) all value US having presence around China. Big countries always bully smaller ones and US generally protects the little guys, most times. If China has problems with all its neighbors than maybe China is the problem. I mean it's either the one kid that causes everyone problems is right or the entire classroom that says the one kid is a bully, you tell me what common sense says.
@@Hamlet137475 Indeed, to your point the existence of big country itself is just bully, we should crack the country up to satisfy you right? Sorry it is not the real rule of the world. Talk about Arizona, California and Texas with Mexican and see what you find.
@@Hamlet137475 it is true that big country bully small country. But no country can compare to America, Britain and France. The countries you mention above are existing from thousand of years. Non of the races have been disappeared. The conflict between china and Taiwan was also seeded by British if you forget.
@@2024-l9n Very true. This interview is far from the majorities’ opinion. Perhaps, it’s because those whom been interviewed were elite shanghaiese who can afford to live in the wealthiest part of Shanghai.
I find the Chinese interviewees, whatever their views, very impressive. Well informed, articulate, I think far more sophisticated than one would find in most countries.
Because China has a very competitive social enviroment, the competition even starts from kindergarden, chinese kids need do a lot of work to go to college for getting a better life in the future. And also influenced by confucianism, chinese people highly valued education from thousand years ago, which is kind of a tradition.
As a Chinese we are taught to see things in different perspectives and most things in life are not purely black and white. And another’s thing is that I think we don’t really see many western propaganda… Tbh I feel our official news agencies are more neutral than many western media. E.g comparing CGTN to BBC and CNN, you can see some stark contrast😅
They're not "the other side" they're just people with jobs, friends, and families like us. I think that's the point of these types of videos, to show how we're all actually quite similar in many ways. We're all just humans trying to make our way through life.
@@hargibson18 Agree, many people like to exaggerate (or imagine) the difference between race/nation/political system, but in fact they are all quite similar in general. I mean compare it with the history where there is no access to travel and Internet, no globalization, a lot of problems still persist today, at least now we have better translation tool and high-quality media like Asian Boss. Only when the world understand we are not that different as a human 'species', then our world will continue to progress.
This was a great interview!! As a Russian I am scared for our future, the future of Ukraine and how it will impact the world in general. Half of my family is Ukrainian and I feel helpless because no one can guarantee that this madness will end soon. But I have faith in people. And I hope we won’t hate each other for the horrible decisions our politicians have made ❤️🩹
We will not, we have to accept that Putin is a bit edgy and we have ultimately respect that. Sad that he thinks invading will put people on his side. He's digging is own grave at this point and the west shouldn't intervene in my opinion. I still think it's cruel, but when faced with cruelty, more cruelty isn't an option. I just don't think nuclear threat should ever be an option for any negociation what so ever. The fact that Putin is willing to play with those words means he doesn't deverse to lead your country in my opinion. Look at how China handled their war, they let it happen like a medieval war with freaking batons, no cilivian area was destroyed. That's how you keep peace.
I love how we get to really hear different perspectives through your channel. There’s only one narrative in traditional media all the time. It would do us all good to just calmly listen to a range of people and ponder, and realise that everyone is entitled to their own thoughts.
I strongly recommend Asian bosses to go to 『Taiwan』 to interview the same issue, to see the difference between Taiwanese and Chinese on the issue of Russian invasion of Ukraine, I think it will be very interesting!
People are commenting that the translations arent 100% accurate when dealing with such a sensitive topic. Please address this, as a word here or there can make a large impact on its meaning
6:59 “China and Russia can be considered as allies in jointly confronting the United States…so-called allies; at least they have a common so-called enemy.” His using “so-called” made it clear that the relationship with Russia in fact is not an official alliance and the US is not officially an enemy. When omitting “so-called”, the translation missed what he said.
Asian Boss is no different from any other media and always has its bias. It’s not the first time they have this “mistranslation” issue and won’t be the last time. Even if they somehow fix this, they can always selectively present the content they want the audience to perceive through all kinds of methods. So, let it go …
I 100% agree! Glad to see others do too. I have been called all sorts of names online because I requested that people fixed their wording and it has been crazy.
The level of understanding regarding the issue reveals the Chinese people are a testament that the Chinese government isn't bombarding their people with propaganda. They are a very thoughtful people. I would love to hear the answers of these same questions asked of US citizens.
It is a rather complicated story. In current Chinese values, It is more important to have a united opinion (to survive) than have critical thinking(freedom). So if the Chinese government has a public and official opinion, most Chinese will unconsciously follow it without the need for propaganda, attack all who have an odd opinion, and blame them as betrayers. However, right now the government is as confused and nervous as the western world. So it does not provide any strong opinion officially to the people, only vague, neutral even fence-sitting declarations. China needs Russia as an ally but does not want to be dragged into a war. And China also starts to recall the bad memory about Russia (Guess what country took most territory from China in history)
@@knpnu9136 wht suggested is no matter wht, chinese ppl opinion doesnt count, at the same time american opinion even though after brainwarshed still more reliable?
it cool to see how there are differing sides, the younger people speaking in a way where they are more cautious and empathetic when explaining their thoughts while the older have a much stronger opinion
its mainly because the older gen have been through the cold war which causes them to despise the US. Since the US is backing ukraine. Enemy of the enemy = foe, so they support Russia
Despite how the Western media portraying China as a place with absolutely no freedom, these ordinary folks speak no different than anyone on the streets in the West. I would even go on and say they sound more educated than what I would expect to see on average. Good job China, US has a lot to learn from
This was a really interesting contribution and gives us a glimpse of how divided opinions are in China. It is clear that opinions everywhere always depend on the information sources and the content that is made available to us so we must always listen to many different reports out there before forming a firm opinion. It also appears that most of the people of this world have compassion and really want the same - PEACE and Happiness!
I am french and here on medias it's full fake news about China. Against North Korea, against Russia, against China. French media never give information but always say an idea there then another idea to brainwash french people, now almost all french 90% french people hate China, after being brainwashed so long time. I realized that the news in french media are all a copy of the US news, french journalists never investigate but always take a part of US newspaper or TV and put it in french media. It's like that in all western countries, and South Korea, India, Japan and other else called "allies", they all copy from US media. No one can trust western media, only going in place to see with our eyes is the truth.
China can discuss anything, it's not what your country tells you, that's America's slander against China, America wants to make it look like China doesn't have freedom of speech
@@酥妹 ah that’s why during the Olympics, foreign journalists were followed by average by talents 3 cars and agents shut down any possible interviews with locals. „Freedom of Speech“
It's good to hear different points of view from around the world. I think it helps us understand that we are all people. It's too bad our governments seem unable to do the same.
The unfortunate thing is that it is never about good and bad in politics. It is always about business! All politicians over the world show the same mindset. It's all about money and business and it doesn't matter how they can get what they want. The only thing that matters to them is that they get it. It's everywhere in the world like that. Instead of live and let live and respect this kind of mindset there are always many that don't want it that way.
Nato & U.S. could've also intervened, if it wasn't that, they paused & think about the lives of their own people.. Glad they're not like those selfish authoritarian leaders. @_@
@@RexKo nato will nuke everyone on earth before ever accepting an alternative opinion. No opinion is any good except ours, let's nuke them, at least it saves having to learn chinese.....
Conclusion of that (I am watching street interviews from Russia as well) is that people all around the world are very similar. Everybody wants peace, prosperity and good future for their loved ones and a humanity in general. Nobody wants war and suffering. We live in different cultures but we are all humans and we should respect each other. Brother should not kill or harm a brother.
People who do not accept their past and don’t respect heroes who gave their lives so that nowadays their grandchildren can live in peace can’t be called brothers.
I liked how the lady in green jacket mentioned about the situation between Russia and Ukraine. I'm glad to know that many of them in China are aware of what's happening and have rational ideas and pursuing for the peace.
War was the only logical outcome of NATO antagonization. It's unfortunate that ppl don't know the background & context behind global events. They just see Russia invading Ukraine & say it's bad....they don't realize Russia's hand was forced. This is entire NATO/West's fault for using Ukraine as their puppet to antagonize & corner Russia into a corner. Russia is not a poor impoverished Iraq or Afghanistan...they responded with force. Now the poor ppl of Ukraine have to suffer for siding with the devil. Know the background plz.
@@monash4250 So no country has the right to join the alliance they want ? so you mean that ur a leader or a country and most population wants to join Nato and you let other countries decide your faith and ur beliefs?
@@monash4250 yes, Russia, the largest nuclear power alongside the USA, was treated by the country that gave up its nuclear weapons for the promise of territorial integrity. Yes. And the only thing the war achieved is a consolidation of NATO and rise of its popularity in Finland and Sweden.
I loved "This is an issue of another country's sovereignity, so China has no right to interfere" Why USA and EU always interfere in other's contriry's sovereignity under pretext of "democrazy"?
@@user-kr1de8el7g there is not justice, war is a business from military complexes and political interests. Stop beautify wars. Let me tell you that Ukraine used to have good relationship with Russia when the interest was the same. As for Taiwan , I don’t think America cares about how many Taiwan people die just like they don’t care how many Slavic people die. As long as their political aim gets obtained. You fool should wake up.
The common voice that resonated strongly with me is that no one likes war and everybody knows the severe consequences of a nuclear inferno. I am sure the feelings are mutual between the ordinary Russian and Ukrainian citizens. Hopefully the truce will be reached soon before one more drop of blood is shed.
How can you have a truce with a mass murderer of children? When people show you who they are, believe them. putin is a mass murderer of millions. putin is Putler. In the West, we thought NATO was a relic from the 1940s. Needless to say, from now on, if we live through putin's nuclear winter, NATO will be HUGE.
@@alexwyler4570 I am not Chinese....but this is not mass murder...more like civilians caught up in shelling.....So far death of civilians is around 800-900 in 16 days.....When USA attacked Libya or Syria....I don't remember which one it was....15000 were killed in a single and first day....that was called mass murder....It's USA that provoked war between two brother's Russia and Ukraine....by setting up their puppet government in Ukraine in 2014..... USA and UK is doing opposite what they shouldn't do...provoking Russia more.....Atleast France and Germany are better and trying to mediate...They need mediators not provokers right now..... Condolence to the decreased people and their family as well as fallen soldiers of both countries....
Must say, thank u for Twitter to correcting my pro-West behavior when i was young, I appreciate it. also thanks for western MSM and they kind westerner let me know how nasty and racism the west is🥰🥰
@@wamizheng2537 I have to admit that there are bigots and hateful people here in the US but not all of us, friend. We work hard here in our small ways to be good people. I dream of a day when I can freely visit any place on earth. Maybe then we can share common experiences, hopes and dreams. I hope you find nothing but peace.
I appreciate the efforts Asian Boss puts in. Thank you for bringing in the various perspectives of people across Asia on so many topics over the years!
Asia boss is a media, they can be misleading while protending to be objective. If you go to Chinese social media and see for yourself, you will see that majority of people's opinions in China are like the old man's opinion in the video, and support Russia. But this video make it sound like all the young people in China are standing with Ukraine. That's not true. Many people may be against war , but very few people support Ukraine. Always remember media always has their own political agenda, no matter how "objective" they pretend to be. They may pay someone to say what they like to hear. So the best way to get information , is to see for yourself.
your comment is right，most people in China Especially old and women support Russia，They don't have the ability to think for themselves，they believe what media said.
These ordinary people in China are much more informed about Russia/Ukraine than I expected. Many Americans I've seen interviewed are much less informed on this topic.
Incredible. I’m from the UK and now feel ashamed of my prejudices against the Chinese fed by our media. What articulate and thoughtful people. We truly have more in common than I thought. Thank you for the video.
@@Alexszhd thanks for giving me the opportunity to expand and explain. I hear lots of talk about the Chinese stealing intellectual property, committing acts against Uyghurs, the communist party strong arming companies and media, siding with Russia by not condemning their actions, covering up the origins of covid etc. What this video showed me is that the general population of most countries are not involved in these acts and it’s actually the governments of all countries that have the problem with each other. I would love to do more travelling in the future to meet other cultures and better myself. If you haven’t seen any of these narratives in the last three years I feel I should probably change my news sources and ask where you go for neutral information? Kind regards.
@@aaronf4201 You didn't substantiate your claim that the British Media is prejudice against the Chinese People. What you did instead is agree that he CCP does all those terrible acts, but attribute British Media coverage as "attacking the Chinese people". How? Also, "this video shows the general population of China" bro are you seriously saying that a country with a billion people, with dozens of different cultures, languages, ethnicities... Is represented fairly with a few young adults from one city. Come on really? To trivialise our media by just such unsubstantiated claims of Racism, seems to indicate that you brought on those prejudices yourself. I've consumed a lot of media, majority on China - and I can say I hate the CCP wholeheartedly. I can also recognise that most Chinese people aren't doing what the CCP does.
No need to write the fact you had racist prejudices and now this one video changed your mind. Its such a cliche at this point. Where white westerners think that we are waiting for these type of messages. It also reflects back on White Supremacy. Look, you are worthy of my positive opinion, here, appreciate it, because it is important for a white person to acknowledge you. You're all racist to a degree, we know this, and also know how fragile it is. No need to remind us of it. Thank you.
The only prejudice we have is that xi acts as a dictator and that these Chinese citizens look quite happy with that. You have the gouvernants you deserve. True for the Brits too with their clown 😁
One reason may be we were at the edge of the world for decades, the people living in the central area do not have the motivation to do that. Another thing is with long time record of history, Chinese are averagely more political than others in the world.
@@wolfheadedconjuror or you are, which is why many people believe people in China are ignorant. But in fact they are not but the west will NEVER cover news from China (or Russia) unless it’s bad. Especially America but that makes sense because they are kind of enemies but with the rest of the world being ignorant and call other ignorant is something that surprises me. I can’t believe you just call people brainwashed without actual information backing it up. I bet you heard the media or friends tell you this over and over which led you to believe half the population is brainwashed. I mean I can’t say there isn’t propaganda but can you say there isn’t propaganda in literally EVERY country? In smaller forms or more obvious forms. Americans literally learn to see Russia and China as the enemy and if that isn’t propaganda at it’s finest I don’t know what is.
This is an amazing video! I am Belgian and I am astonished by the high level of intelligence en knowledge off the people who were interviewed. Also the way that they talk about peace and the respect they have for other countries, it’s amazing. Great respect for China❤! Lovely people!
"AustinCMN vor 5 Tagen Really disappointed with the quality of the translation. It's not just very loosely translated. Some sentences are barely related to the original or even mean the opposite. Here's a few examples of what the correct translation should be. Please judge for yourselves. 1:06 Personally, I think it might be too harsh to describe it as an "invasion". 4:08 dispatched their armed forces 4:23 They aimed their guns and missiles at Russia's door 4:53 (second sentence) if we can sign a treaty then we'll try not to resort to violence. 5:06-5:20 We shouldn't step in because Ukraine provoked the situation in the first place. Russia has been provoked, but it has not been invaded. 5:53 but we can urge them to stop or share our views. 6:15 We won't send weapons to the battlefield (meaning they won't contribute to the war) 8:19 blatantly (not blindly) 9:02 to tackle intense situations 12:20 I hope that the US can stop meddling in issues like this in the future so that there can be world peace. 15:18 The US benefits from our conflict. (Literally: The US is watching the tigers fight（观虎）. The Chinese saying 坐山观虎斗 "sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight" means to watch in safety whilst others fight then reap the rewards when both sides are exhausted) 16:45 no family can bear the pain of losing a loved one."
In West, I live in France, western people are 99% one-sided, they are brainwashed for decades and can't think by themselves and having different opinions, they became real robots in their head, closed in George Orwell's world in West, they can't escape, they can't think differently, only can think what media tell them. I hope I go back to China soon, with real humans who have different opinions, I can't bear western people these robots in West this George Orwell's world
In fact, China's consultation and freedom of speech are much better than those in the West. The western media are full of lies! Why do European and Western media dare not prove that they report China? That's because China is more fair and free of speech than them. Americans call a picture of a Chinese school a Chinese concentration camp. It's ridiculous that the whole west believes it!! Because Americans can start a war with a bag of washing powder!!! So the overall IQ of westerners is really not high! It's easy to be brainwashed by the media!
this is propaganda. no one can go around china with pro video gear and asking random people on the street political questions without ccp permission want to see real chinese view? use vpn go on weibo and chinese tiktok
A nice look at the perspective of Chinese citizens on this war; to me it proves that we ARE all one people and should learn to settle differences with words, not violence. Make war no more.
Brian Swanson ... Unfortunately, that's not possible in the near future... However, if you are familiar with, or become familiar with, the current cosmological projections of the Universe... Eventually, we will all be so mute, and distant from one another, that war will inevitably become...impossible! Of course, that means that our existence will, inevitably, become non-existent as well.
As long as evil is in the world good people will fight it. Where there is evil there is no peace. We all have to fight evil daily, even in our own minds. War is not evil but evil people are inherent violent. Good people stand up for eachother. Good people are not on the sidelines.
@@alexashworth3119 there is a difference between being a good person (someone that tries, not to cause harm, and instead, tries to help others, when they can)... And being an altruistic person (someone that will risk their own life, in order to save another's life).
@@marsmancho You can call it what you want. The truth real love is when someone is willing to lay down their own life for someone else's. In one way or another sacrifice is the mark of a person who has love. Whether you sacrifice your life, your time, your money, love isn't selfish. God is love.
Thank you Asian Boss for helping spread empathy and understanding. A lot of people on both sides need it these days. As an American living in Norway, I gotta say - though we westerners and our Chinese/Russian brothers and sisters don’t agree on much it’s comforting to know we can all come together and acknowledge that world war 3 should not (and god willing will not) happen. Here’s hoping we can resolve our issues calmly and one day maybe - just maybe - live in true peace without animosity.
@RedJoker It's terrible, but to be fair, the US invaded Iraq illegally and has caused over one million deaths. We're not that innocent either. The US has caused or contributed to many conflicts in Central Asia, Middle East and Latin America and Europe has caused a great deal of damage to innocent countries around the world over the last few centuries.
Good video. Range of opinions and unbiased dialogue. Goes to show how filtered information is when it gets to the news and also how where you live affects what you hear.
This was a very reassuring interview. We are more alike than different no matter our country. We want to live in peace and resolve our differences peacefully for our children's sake. Thank you
I strongly recommend Asian bosses to go to 『Taiwan』 to interview the same issue, to see the difference between Taiwanese and Chinese on the issue of Russian invasion of Ukraine, I think it will be very interesting!
Fantastic work Asian Boss. I am floored at the shear diversity of opinions on various issues from Chinese citizens. And those are not just superficial regurgitation of what’s been broadcasted on the news, but substantive and well informed opinions. Keep it up Asian Boss.
Im glad because people keep trying to discount the opinions of actual Chinese people on the internet by saying they’re ‘CCP BOTS’ when in fact literally everyone thinks for themselves and makes up their own mind. Im sure a lot of western people think China’s a monolith of one personality.
In fact, China's consultation and freedom of speech are much better than those in the West. The western media are full of lies! Why do European and Western media dare not prove that they report China? That's because China is more fair and free of speech than them. Americans call a picture of a Chinese school a Chinese concentration camp. It's ridiculous that the whole west believes it!! Because Americans can start a war with a bag of washing powder!!! So the overall IQ of westerners is really not high! It's easy to be brainwashed by the media!!
as a Chinese my dad hate russia，some of my classmate support russia，also i like russia little much（i love alex misko by his music），but we all wish that war come over🐼🐻
@@gogolljon8280 IMAO ,you will change your mind if you know about Mr Putin's true nature. This one is used to called the leader of west wing in europe.He is actually the king of slavic nazi orgnizaiton in post USSR counrtries.
@Harambe E, haha yes, I’m sadly that even in Russia there is the people thinks like that, I think: they didn’t lived in 90s?! They didn’t saw US president was happy to win in Cold War during here it grower alcoholism, drugs, death, poor etc… that’s makes me crazy😞
@@MonkeSquid69 he did say multiple times himself that he wants to do that, though definitely a more plausible explanation than him "wanting to protect Russian-speaking citizens" - considering that all the bombings of civilian infrastructure that his soldiers carry out usually strike Russian speakers the hardest, ironically
In my view it s more a matter of experience. People who have experienced war knows the importance of defence. However I agree its also a matter of age, young people are often more idealistic, and less realistic.
@@jinchengzou5525 yeah, most people believe that winnie the pooh is banned in China, there is literally a ride called "the many adventures of winnie the pooh" in Shanghai Disneyland.
Not really, there are plenty of young Chinese that supports Russia. The pro-Russia argument stems from a general hatred towards NATO (they did bomb the Chinese embassy in Belgrade). As well as seeing Russia as a friend standing up to the West.
These comments show a much higher level of maturity in Mainland China. Don't underestimate these people's right to express themselves on issues affecting their cousins in Taiwan.
Because your authoritarian regime with perfect objective politicians(Dictatorship) is like the the Russian way(Putin is Adolf 2.0) The Chinese think China first. I don't think for example Germany first. We live on the same planet(have to protect it) and everything else is childish.
These interviews enlightened me to understand the complexities of how Chinese people view world politics. Every person interviewed is so intelligent and articulate. The Chinese people seem like amazing people.
Interviewing random people on streets by foreign media is illegal, the interviews must be pre-arranged and must support the official state narrative. The real Chinese view are the exact opposite of what you see in this video. Find out on Chinese tiktok weibo xiguashipin - do not get deceived.
Kelly O'Donnell they're not, In China they're spreading hatred towards the west, and Ukrainian president, and they're very pro-war and pro-Russia. that's the only correct perspective in China. They even mocking death of victims.
pretty cool that you covered this, but you really should up your translation game. Quite a few lines in the English translation are not what the interviewees said in Chinese, some of the lines are even translated to the opposite meaning of what the interviewee actually said. I'm going to assume it's just that your translator's Chinese comprehension skills are not ideal, and that the mistranslations are not intentional. But some of those mistranslated lines do look like they lean a particular way.
All these comments make me think any one of them would bring peace if they were head of a country. They have sense, compassion and peace in their minds.
I don't think the translation for this video was done very well. There was a lot of mistranslation of what people said that was almost the opposite of what they actually said, and a lot of terms and saying that could have been easily translated to English which was left out of the subtitles. Usually your videos are well translated, so I'm disappointed for this one.
@@Mibs-Mibby Just some examples, but doesn't cover all of it: At 1:07 the woman answers: "I think using the word "invasion" is being too severe. this is my personal feeling." Which implies she doesn't tihnk it should be called an invasion. At 4:20 the man says: "Because NATO is expanding east, to Russia's doorstep. They're aiming cannons, missiles, rockets, at Russia's door. Putin felt threated and retaliated" At 5:04 the woman answers "I feel we shouldn't interfere. Firstly, Ukraine stirred up trouble and aggravated Russia. It's not Russia being invaded. If Russia got invaded we could help."
Agree. Lots of nuanced replies were translated into simple answers. 13:28 The whole section about Taiwan was roughly done, sentences cut short. Didn’t at all reflect the depth and thought process of the replies. But hats off to the interviewer for getting these profound answers.
Yes. It's especially frustrating because information should be relayed clearly especially at a time like this. Translation errors are not uncommon when Asianboss holds interviews in China, but this video has done a really bad job conveying what citizens have to say on the topic. I hope it gets better.
China and Russia have not been true allies since the Sino-Soviet split, but their shared enemy of the United States and Western Europe have forced them into a slightly uneasy friendship. I remember not long ago many Chinese were upset when Russia celebrated the anniversary of Vladivostok. There is still some tension there looming below the surface.
Sounds like some think NATO is a threat to Russia, but Russia is not a threat to NATO. Who invaded an independent country in a land grab? NATO or Russia. Hint Russia invaded Ukraine
4:25 the translation is in sufficient. What the man said is not merely "They're knocking on Russia's door". He actualy said "guns and missiles are pointing at Russia"
@Bringette Awnn He means Russia is defending itself from NATO expending to Ukraine, and then missiles are pointing at Russia, and then there will be no buffer area between NATO and Russia
I don´t mean to be rude, but you really should re-upload this video with correct translations. This video in its form right now is very misleading to anyone not reading the pinned comment and I do not think spreading misinformation is something you advocate on your channel either.
@@shrexbomb I agree. De-Nazification of Ukraine, withdrawal of Russian troops, everything to peace, because Putin's condition is to demand that Ukraine be de-Nazified. It was clear that Ukraine had the worst luck this time, but it was the Nazi militias in Ukraine that left the worst impression on me, not Russia.
The Chinese people have a lot of common sense and they speak far more intellectually about this issue than we do in the US. Of course, we want Ukraine to maintain its defense and sovereignty over Russia but it sure seems like most Chinese people feel the same way.
8:19 The translation here is wrong, he said he doesn't think China will openly support Russia‘s attack. But China and Russia have a close relationship better than China and the West.
ive worked with quite a few chinese people (based in shenzhen)- they are a lovely people who are also misunderstood by the west... thank you for providing this insight... i hope more people get to see this video and stop fostering all the hatred we have in the world between these nations ...like the dude in the black jacket said... ordinary people are innocent in all of this ...that extends to every side and the overwhelming majority of humans on planet earth... love to you all!
i can't say much about how representative these interviews were in terms of the chinese population. But these people are seemingly well informed, very well educated and less manipulated by media propaganda of any colour than what i expect to hear from people in Europe. This alone is reason to be optimistic for Chinas future.
Thanks for this video. I'm russian, and I see that people of China are truly think good about Russia. Thank's for this words, people of big China brother.
Привет. But reading comments make me angry. Those comments are still supporting Ukraine. Some of these people in the comments are laughing at the grandpa and saying that he is wrong mind. Brainwashed people. If they do not know the history behind Ukrainian nazis, they do not have a right to blame Russia for this operation.
@@remixpanda1490 don’t be mad at them. That’s how propaganda works. And till USA propaganda works that way - military operations of USA are good thing, and any other countries don’t have rights to do anything like them. We live in capitalistic, unipolar world. But the times, they are changing. You’re not alone, who use critical thinking. Be well and healthy, best regards.
@@remixpanda1490 There are 1.4 billion people in China, and you can't expect everyone to be on the same page. Overall, 70 to 80 percent of Chinese support Putin. This video just finds some naysayers to keep the balance.
@@LeafLampLight yep. You are correct. More to say, someone commented that nazis are Russian and Chinese. Wow. Someone doesn’t know anything about history.. what a shame. Thankfully it is not us my friend
Right away there's a HUGE mistake in translation. @01:06 she said "我觉得用入侵这个词可能有点。。太严重了" which means "I think to use the word 'invasion' (to describe what happened) is a little ... too severe". Meaning she didn't think Russia "invaded" Ukraine, but probably just a "special military operation" as claimed by Putin. Definitely not "I think the invasion is quite extreme".
The word invasion, in our dictionary, mostly mean the occupation of land. Since Putin said that he will not occupy Ukraine, but only wanted to maintain peace and target the Ukrainian government, we don't completely agree that this is an invasion. Because in the end, his soldiers must fulfill his promise and return to his country. However, due to the resistance of the Ukrainian President, some of us believe that Putin will not retreat after the victory, because the cost of this battle is too huge, and it is not cost-effective for Russia to retreat with nothing.
@@titan480 president Putin also said he won't attack Ukraine. He said he won't be a president for the third time. He sais he'll make 20 million of working places for Russians in three years. In 2014 he said there was no Russian forces in Crimea and in 2015 he said the opposite. He said he won't increase a pension age as long as he's a president. He said he'd never change a constitution. Do I even have to continue? I believe he never said one thing. He never said that you're smarter than a rock.
@@AlexA-eg7gz What you are talking about is Russia's internal affairs, why should we interfere in Russia's internal affairs like you? We have criticized the United States many times for not interfering in our internal affairs. Similarly, we will not interfere in other countries' internal affairs, but some Captain America just likes to stir up trouble, lest the world be in chaos.
@@AlexA-eg7gz You are so righteous, why don't you go to war for Ukraine? Ukraine is so pitiful, why didn't its allies fight for him? Because everyone knows that the war will damages themselves, and no one dares to despise the war. However, Ukraine itself underestimated the possibility of war and was beaten by Russia, and their president refused to surrender and send gave weapons to his civilian. Who is to blame? The so-called clean officials are difficult to judge in families matter, we insist on our own position, what is the problem?
It does not. It is important for China to have a peaceful relation to Russia, but an alliance with them will held back China. Cultivate the relation to the US is what can help China. The relation is bad now but it can be improved.
@@dgib1694 Alliance... relationship... Tomayto... Tomahto... Same difference. The point is that the relationship makes sense, because they complement each other very well - both economically and, increasingly, also geopolitically thanks to a belligerent USA.
@@Orwellian-Purple-Grapes-1984 "Orwellian" is the right descriptor for you where you engage in "Newspeak."The USA is not "belligerent" at all. On the contrary, US administrations from Clinton to Obama and Biden have all been very naive when it comes to Ruzzia's imperialistic plans. Was it the US that seized the Crimean Parliament and forced them, at gun point, to "vote" to return to Ruzzia? Was it the US that sent disguised soldiers into Donbas to create a fake civil war? Did the US pour thousands of troops into Russia from Ukraine or anywhere else?
THANK YOU THANK YOU. I’ve been listening to every news source I can on this issues. Pro Russia. Anti Russia. Pro US. Anti US. Everyone always says the news is “fake” when the news doesn’t say what they want it to say. This is why what you do is so important. Thank you.
Thanks to all who helped out with the more "accurate" translations. One or two words added or omitted makes a huge differences in English, along with the punctuation.
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Really dislike some of the twisted translations trying to portray a pro-US narrative.
"to prevent ww3" how far up your own a** can one be
Why do your translations suck so much?
A lot has changed in two years.
Would be great to get an update since this video was made. In that time, U.S. and NATO troops have been talking about mobilizing for general war against Russia.
There's also been many Western contractors fighting on the side of the Ukrainians and many Chinese PLA veterans have joined the Russian military.
Then we have the U.S. State Dept. floating the idea of sending Ukraine weaponry that will be used to conduct more strikes into Russia.
That will mean Russia may be forced to take out staging areas inside NATO countries.
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Really disappointed with the quality of the translation. It's not just very loosely translated. Some sentences are barely related to the original or even mean the opposite. Here's a few examples of what the correct translation should be. Please judge for yourselves.
1:06 Personally, I think it might be too harsh to describe it as an "invasion".
4:08 dispatched their armed forces
4:23 They aimed their guns and missiles at Russia's door
4:53 (second sentence) if we can sign a treaty then we'll try not to resort to violence.
5:06-5:20 We shouldn't step in because Ukraine provoked the situation in the first place. Russia has been provoked, but it has not been invaded.
5:53 but we can urge them to stop or share our views.
6:15 We won't send weapons to the battlefield (meaning they won't contribute to the war)
8:19 blatantly (not blindly)
9:02 to tackle intense situations
12:20 I hope that the US can stop meddling in issues like this in the future so that there can be world peace.
15:18 The US benefits from our conflict. (Literally: The US is watching the tigers fight（观虎）. The Chinese saying 坐山观虎斗 "sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight" means to watch in safety whilst others fight then reap the rewards when both sides are exhausted)
16:45 no family can bear the pain of losing a loved one.
这个视频，让我觉得在这个话题上，asian boss并不客观。
采访那么多人，但是并不是同样的问题每个人都回答。有的问题剪辑这个人的回答，有的问题剪辑另外一个人的回答。为什么要这样做呢？没被放出来的回答到底说的是什么呢？
@@alvita9656 好多视频的翻译都不准，搞不清他们是真的缺人还是故意这么搞的。
@@alvita9656 Asian Boss不是所有视频都是这样吗，应该是选比较具有代表性，表达比较流畅的回答吧。。。（可以看得出来特意选了几个鲜明的人设，支持俄国的老人，体谅平民的中年妇女等等）
他们韩国媒体怎么可能客观！谷歌翻译都比他们翻译的好
This comment really should be pushed Higher so more people can see
some of the mistranslations drastically change the meaning of what was spoken.
6:14 The translation was "We wont't abandon the situation either." when it should have been "We would not supply arms to either sides."
12:19 The translation was " I hope the US can stop this situation" when it should have been "I hope that the US would refrain from intervening in the war, so that the world in general would be more peaceful."
The part with the guy from 6.25 the translation is as we see?
In fact, China's consultation and freedom of speech are much better than those in the West. The western media are full of lies! Why do European and Western media dare not prove that they report China? That's because China is more fair and free of speech than them. Americans call a picture of a Chinese school a Chinese concentration camp. It's ridiculous that the whole west believes it!! Because Americans can start a war with a bag of washing powder!!! So the overall IQ of westerners is really not high! It's easy to be brainwashed by the media!!
Gee, you'd almost think the translation was intentionally distorted.
@@unconnected Troll bot tech are Developed in USA
@@havocrein I don't agree. Some of us grew up in a conflict zone and know how important it is to think outside the box you are given at birth. To talk to people. To share similar and different experiences and to read and learn. Whilst we have bias it isn't the same thing as being brain washed.
Thanks for the video! I wanted to point out some translations that could be better:
1:05 "I personally think the invasion is quite extreme" should be "I personally think the word 'invasion' is too extreme"
5:10 "We shouldn't step in because this is Ukraine's issue" should be "We shouldn't step in because Ukraine is the one who provoked Russia"
14:36 "First of all, the US has Taiwan's back..." should be "First of all, Taiwan's boss, the US, won't agree to it"
edit: adding 6:15 "We won't abandon the situation either" should be "we also won't send weapons to (either Ukraine or Russia)" from user Rhapsody in comments
Thanks for that, Asian Boss has a habit of twisting translations like this.
@9:42 when that girl said '' ...think about those Winnie the Pooh memes...'' , all u people from outside China knows that the BBC propaganda gotchu
@@ydihtty I'm sure there was no malice behind these mistranslations, but they do change the meaning and intent greatly.
@@goodboi8569 Maybe there is no malice, but I have seen this same happen on other videos of them interviewing Chinese people, and I think the twisting of meaning is in a generally consistent direction.
Thanks. Precision in language (native language or translation) is very important.
It would be interesting doing street interview Americans thinking of China.
you spit the truth 😂
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I'm wondering about the demographics of Trump supporters as well.
500 million in the USA budget for anti Chinese propaganda- what you think?
not all all....they know nothing, they don't care...
As a Chinese I would say this is a good representation of what peoples views are in our country. No matter we support or condemn, peace and empathy is always above all.
are the translations correct? because some comments say otherwise and you never know who to trust online so I thought i might ask a chinese person in the comments
If you are Chinese how are you watching this on UA-cam? Honest question?
@@sakutaro3musik486 Someone has already pointed out the mistranslations that influenced meanings (pinned comment). The rest is accurate.
@@zachcouch8654 using VPN or he/she is living overseas
@@zachcouch8654 I can answer ur question for Lu. We both from the time 2050. Now China has been "Democratized" by someone, so we can use youtube.
I totally condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But for those who have a bad view of the old man's opinion. First you have to remember what his generation went through, the sacrifices they had to make for the current generation. Before China became an economic superpower they were always bullied by the west, who helped their country a lot back then only Russia. He saw many things that the present generation does not see.
True, but I would add that with a higher expectation for economic abundance and choice, there also needs to be a higher expectation for an abundance of information he must gather for him to be informed with. Spouting Russian propaganda is kind of hard to excuse, like chiding your politically incorrect grandpa
Is China the only Country that have been bullied by West? The continent of Africa were bullied by the West and stripped of all their mineral resources in the past by the West till this present day but they aren’t even talking about it. Some Chinese have that colonial mindset when they travel to the continent of Africa
his opinions might be considered naive or uninformed nowadays but he has experienced stuff that younger western people have only read about on history books, if that. china has a very tough history with the west in particular with europe wreck havocking their land for political and economical interest, not to mention their recent hardships with japan during WWII and with the US during the cold war.
dude sees a leader allegedly protecting his country from the west, he's gonna have admiration for it. can't be helped. i don't agree with him, but we can't nor should blame or shame him for his stance.
Still no excuse. The old man’s beliefs are antiquated, flawed, and ignorant. Period.
@@SpookiBunny it’s just, he called Putin, the most feared, hated, brutal person on the whole planet a “man’s man”. I all of a sudden don’t want to be a man anymore, like I’ll be a vegan fish instead, my species has failed me
12:20 the lady meant "I hope US stop intervening (or provoking) and making this kind of situation", not "I hope US will stop the situation". These are completely opposite.
Honestly I would care how this is translated if there weren't many angry Chinese people getting all worked up that there's people with different opinions in this video. 😂😂😂 but thanks for the correction. I didn't know that error was there.
@@rory9698 translation matters here. It changes the whole narrative
@@AmelieZh true.
@@rory9698 in fact, in all their Chinese videos, they distort people's words. They have Chinese people working on their team; therefore, I don't think it's that hard to translate things word for word. I don't know why they choose to make people sound more aggressive or distort people's words to mean entirely different things such as this error above. This is not 1 or 2 videos. This happens in every video, and if you add them up, the number of errors is quite high, making me wonder if they r purposely trying to distort people's words. I am a perfectionist I can't bear with that...
I love how Chinese view America as the ones provoking the situation.
Countries like Ukraine, Kosovo, and Georgie have been begging Europe to join the EU and Nato.
Its hilarious seeing the authoriatarian bootlickers try to blame other countries for fuckups.
America is retarded, but at the very least had a coherent justification behind its invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. China seemed to want to invade Tibet, because apparently to free tibetan slaves, "Glorious mao zedong must arise from the heaven" and become the new tibetan slave masters.
I used to be partial towards these types of politics, but after Ukraine, im in genuine disbeleif, over how China, a nation I thought atleast had good leaders now, would even support Russia after what they did. America may be incompetent, but atleast the Americans arent bootlickers. Jesus christ.
Really interesting. Thanks a lot, regards from Belgium
At 12'19", the translation: "I hope US can stop the situation and give the world some sense of peace."is the opposite of what the women in green says. She said, "I hope US stop intervening things like this [war] forever, then the world will be in peace."
You can do something like this 12:19
Смотри украина спровоцировала Россию начать эту операцию из-за не выполнения минских договоренностей украинская пропаганда пропитала запад они до сих пор считают что крым мы забрали силой и что мы ввели туда войска но они там и так были
So Putin can attack neighboring countries???? Greets from Finland 🇫🇮 former neutral country now member of NATO. We still hope we can live in peace with Russian people. Both Sweden and Finland join Nato so Putins attack on Ukraine was maybe not so clever if Putin in reality are worry of Russian security. Now he destroy Russia and Ukraine with his personal dictator diseas, compleet idiot.
It's amazing how many different opinions came up. definitely not as one-sided as I had expected. great job Asian Boss
westerners are more one-sided.
It interests me how the people say "the Chinese government is very against it" but to my knowledge the government had made no such statements. Correct me if im wrong, and I may be but china and russia are very close so I don't see any statement like that being made publicly.
@@sowersass2 they are against it. You just won’t notice if you only pay attention to public speeches they give to audiences that include the international community, because they don’t like stirring up too much trouble. They don’t want a criticize an ally and they don’t want the USA to come out looking like the “good guys” because to China the US is a huge bully who always harass them and send agents to destabilize them and also use propaganda against them and even send scholars/diplomats to threaten countries that get close to China.
So yeah it won’t be easy spotting overt words that reveal their thoughts on the invasion.
You’ll have to interpret their words and position. They say they support territorial sovereignty, in which case it’s Russia violating that. They also see themselves in Ukraine’s position and the USA as Russia using a BS genocide (against Uyghurs or ethnic Russians) as the excuse to invade.
In private I’ve heard people in CPC I know saying this invasion is a disaster (that being said the CPC is almost 100 million people, practically everyone is in or knows someone in the CPC so it’s not like it’s a monolith with one single opinion).
It doesn't matter what ordinary people think, but what the Party wants the tone to be. Also bear in mind this is Shanghai, 20million people, supposed to be a more liberal place. Non costal areas will be way more hawkish and that is what we need to worry about.
@@sowersass2In fact, in China's interest, what we really want is for the US to withdraw from Ukraine and for Russia to stop invading Ukraine. So we are neutral in this problem. Actually, China also have
territorial disputes with Russia.
This is a really good interviewer - she didn’t let interesting off hand comments just slip by, but gently pressed in on them. Good stuff
Yep, good interviewer, No leading questions, just neutral ones that the interviewee can address any way they want, good stuff.
@@TheJhtlag ? not at all. She used "invade" to guide the audiences, and several of them point out that it is not "invasion".
@9:42 when that girl said '' ...think about those Winnie the Pooh memes...'' , all u people from outside China knows that the BBC propaganda gotchu
Yeah great neutral questions could elicit honest and open responses. Cool to see such a diversity of viewpoints.
@@LouisTsuiful This guy here is faking to be a Chinese. Don't mind him guys. In his message he says "we don't spread info about supporting any side", yet he supports Russia. Definitely a troll. He is impersonating Chinese people. What a douchebag.
If we compare the views and disscussion of the Chinese and other street interviews in other countries. Obviously Chinese citizens are more independent and objective and express their own opinions more freely. I think if there is someone from the western society watching this video. They can understand how much differences of their impression about the China and Chinese compare with their western media propaganda.
One thing should be added, most people I found online don't think China and Russia are ally. Because China pursue a no ally policy, meaning we don't have any ally, only partner or closed relationship from common interests, and most Chinese believe the famous Churchill's saying:"no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests." We don't take responsibility for other country's action or its own threat.We don't take actions or solid stand until our own safety and interests is threaten.
Only girlfriend, not wife
@@Tommah1000 Why would any country need a girlfriend or wife?
@@scarecrowl4715 no one really NEEDS a girlfriend or wife. It's just what your girlfriend or wife tells you.
@@Tommah1000
Angry, why not boyfriend and gay
LGBT QIAPK still has 10 minutes to reach the battlefield
@@LouisTsuiful 请不要刷屏地评论行吗
Speaking as a Chinese；
Support Ukraine morally
Support Russia politically
Support no one realistically
Blame the West fully
Want peace absolutely
omg u spoke my mind
definitely correct
You can't blame the west. Ukraine wants to be part of the EU. They see greater economic prospects with free democracies and open markets. They see the Russian way of corrupt oligarchy as being backwards and something they experienced after the Soviet collapse till the Maidan revolution. They also want to joint NATO AFTER Russia illegally seized Crimea and made these fake independent Donbass cities with protracted fighting lasting years between Crimea and now.
@@johnl405 but, try to put youself into Russian shoes, Why NATO break the promise "no eastward expandsion" 5 times. Russian think NATO push them into corner.
Ukraine can just keep neutral or just join EU instead of NATO
you explained this effectively
words are very reader friendly
easy to understand mostly
affect my perspective greatly
have a great day hopefully
as a Russian, I hope this nightmare will end soon! I have relatives in Ukraine, my aunt and uncle.
Не унывай 😀
Putin started this war and he is murdering his own russian soldiers and your relatives in Ukraine.
Help Ukraine brother.
@@rawjusticeman3128 too young too simple.
Slavia Ukraine!
Wow I’m impressed Chinese people are well educated and very smart, intelligent and informed ❤
Well informed? Their propaganda. They want the domination of SE Asia.
The first woman interviewed, she said that the word “invasion” was a strong word’ . The subtitle interpreted it as she thought that the invasion was too much or terrible. There is a huge discrepancy in what she meant!!
I understood it perfectly
Yeah, I noticed that too.
I strongly recommend Asian bosses to go to 『Taiwan』 to interview the same issue, to see the difference between Taiwanese and Chinese on the issue of Russian invasion of Ukraine, I think it will be very interesting!
@Good Vibes What do you want then? Pro NATO? LMAO
@@xiajiayu3443 both NATO and Russia could go rot their organizations for all I care. I'll forever stand with the real victims of this political non sense.
You guys are better than the majority of news outlets. Love you guys.
If you like this you could also watch some cgtn or xinhua news it's about the same.
(as long as Asian Boss is in China)
Here is the underestimated thing. You see a lot of Chinese comments supporting Russia, don't take it serious, cause we got fking 1.4 billion ppl. And you see a ton of Chinese comments supporting Ukraine, don't take it serious either, cause we got fking 1.4 billion ppl LOL. The similarities are in every field, like food, politicians, cars, nations whatever u name it. It's just so hard to describe China, so freaking big, and complex.
That's what your western propaganda teaches you? Nice agenda!
China has their own twitter population.
@UChwGBq6FE90dDBJaD3yXMWg I would say, obviously u have no idea about Chinese social media, instead of official stance, there are still a lot of different voices, the reason I already give to u. And you are totally biased ether, I think this happened in every corner all over the world that ur local gov has the majority of supporter. Just look in a mirror to find out.
@@orbitalpotato9940 1/4 to 1/5 of human kind are chinese, I would say we get population in every field.
@@orbitalpotato9940 absolutely lol. And they can be some of the most toxic communities you may encounter.
Unfortunately, I don't often come across interviews of Chinese citizens, although I'm always curious about what they think and how they talk about things. It seemed to me that due to Chinese censorship and isolation, people would respond with anti-American propaganda narratives, but I was wrong. I’ll even say more, I’m a little shocked at how the Chinese talk about the problem and what different but always humane opinions they have. I want to express my admiration for your peacefulness.. sending love from Georgia 🇬🇪 ❤ 🇨🇳
"censorship" LOL, you have no idea about the occident' censorship and suppression of criticism/mal-information !
You have to understand that 'malinformation' is defined as TRUTHFUL information that does not fit well with the official narratives.
что нельзя сказать о грузии , которая реагирует антироссийской пропагандой .
CCP propaganda hence translation mistakes😮😮
@@Фёдор-з3п Russophobia.... Russians are so deluded in their own lies it's scary... what is anti-RuZZian propaganda? that you guys started war with us twice in 35 years? that Putler needed Gagra military port and pass through Caucasus via Tskhinvali? Even your opposition leader called us rats and wanted to nuke us in 2008... stop victimizing yourselves, you aren't right in this conflict at all... first time RuZZia was attacked since WW2 was the Kursk invasion, and after you yourself invaded Ukraine, not special operation or anything, an INVASION! on the other hand none of RuZZia's neighbors have anything nice to say about them...
I noticed a lot of the ppl didn't know that China has good relationship with BOTH Ukraine and Russia. China imported massive amount of agricultural product and natural resource from both countries. Even our first aircraft carrier was built with the unfinished Varyag vessel in Ukraine. Of course we don't want to see two of our buddies fighting each other, nor to pick any sides. Russians and Ukrainians are both Slav ppl in origin, I hope they can live in peace toghther like a family.
they use the same playbook in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Ukraine. actually the neo-Nazis of Asov Battalion showed up in HKG.
@@kurtgomez4171 "HAD" a good relationship because by the end of this war, Ukraine may be no more right? Since you are new to geopolitics, sit down and wait for your answers.
@@kurtgomez4171 no no no, the Ukrainians will have their dream fulfilled, becoming a part of European Union, as refugees. And Russians will have their buffer state. What a win win scenario lol
Family don;t try to kill you for having new friends.
@@xipengwang2818 Buffer state? Except if Putin takes Ukraine, Russia will then literally be surrounded by NATO countries on it's Eastern side. I mean what?
This is actually very eye opening for me. I never realized just how similar citizens of different countries are in terms of awareness and level-headedness. We shouldn’t have to pay for our governments’ petty disagreements.
I agree.
we are all human beings
Very true, we as citizens are seemingly inconsequential.
Politicians in every nation do as little as possible to keep the majority of us just happy enough they maintain power to do their own bidding.
The societies with the highest living standards and least likely to be in conflicts are those whom have more citizen's in agreement, where politicians are held accountable and freely elected from a larger demographic of policy..
That's not Russia, China or the U.S..
Except for Russia
But man these people are literally brainwashed. They don't even realize that their government is totalitarian.
I've noticed this in Russia as well but support for Russia seems to be divided along generational lines. Younger people seem to be more likely to condemn the war while the older seems to support it.
Actually the trend is this: people young or old who are familiar with politics, would generally empathize with ordinary citizens of Ukraine, but more or less support (or understand) Russian actions _ this is very apparent outside of the west. While most of the people young or old who didn't familiar themselves with politics, generally, condemned Russian actions.
@@josephathorvey9479 So, let me just try to understand what you're saying. People who aren't familiar with politics are the ones condemning Russia's actions. And people who are familiar with politics understand Russia's position and empathize?
If that's what you're trying to say, I have to disagree. Within Russia, the people supporting the war are one's who rely on the state media. Even in this case, it's divided along generational lines as younger people are more likely to rely on media from the internet rather than the state.
It's the same thing outside of Russia and the west. People who rely on media outside of the confines of the state, will always have a broader view. And it's obviously younger people who are more likely to do this. It has less to do with how much politics you pay attention to and more about what types of media you are consuming.
@@477sierraForsed to disagree. A persons opinion made up of his real experience of life in his native country. Person might not have media but could hear many different opinions in his life. Society in Russia, for the most part, strives for peace. But there are things for which society is ready to kill: 1. You can’t mock the memory of generations and 2. hatred for the West (hatred is grown by the west itself).
Unfortunately The West understands this very well and plays with our lives.
More or less sane citizen of Russia understanding that ucranians are victims of events.
But Russia has no other way than to break military plans NATO in the region.
Iam wathching all news in the world But I see many lies about Russia (best lies from CNN and BBC and Ucranian news).
Unfortunately our opinion not want to hear Europe (Russia's main partner). All gowerments of more countries controlled by one headquarters. My country is weaker against such propaganda.
No we have sunctions and I do not know what to expect in future. Our salary down, prices up. But people in the greater mass only began to hate the West even more.
NEED this conflict to relocate on the territiry USA and Britain - is it opinion of a reasonable population of the country.
Because "English world" is the WARMONGER. First to clear ucrain than bringing to justice the WEST.
The West should not count on the revolt of the people of Russia. The majority will be for their country, for peace, for cooperation. Only the West has aggressive intentions.
to choose the side one must get the understanding of what`s going on. most people don`t want to bother themselves to seek reliable info or don`t have time, ability...
@@josephathorvey9479 you are right. Here in finland. most ppl only read the juicy gossips and have no idea whats really happening so putin is bad. while those who pay attention know that putin rly had no choise bcause the murican/ukranian provocation.
Thank you to all the participants of this interview. ❤
These types of videos are important. Everyone should see how people are reacting to world politics instead of being told how people are reacting.
this is propaganda. no one can go around china with pro video gear and asking random people on the street political questions without ccp permission
want to see real chinese view? use vpn go on weibo and chinese tiktok
@@neogenzim1995 yeah. They talk about Winnie the Pooh and Taiwan in the video. Doesn't sound like a CCP propaganda to me😂😂😂😂
These videos are scripted, you need a licence to make content like this and it all must be approved by the ccp.
@@mrgummygod joke of the year😂😂
@@Rex-ww4cw Yeah for a moment I fear for that girl's life lol
You made the old man's day having him express his (rather conflicted) opinion on current issues over an interview rather than chatting with his friends in a park 😂
While wearing a Yankee's cap nonetheless lol
Lord in Heavens. Thats is why the world will always need progressive and educated youth. The younger generation are so balanced in their views and desires. This old man sound just like my father; the inconsistent logic and warmongering added to the self righteous vehemence drives me bonkers...sure, Putin is a God among leaders because he protects his people and territory with a strong and heavy fist, but no, we will absolutely should not do the same to Taiwan because brothers dont harm each other. My eye rolls are hurting my brain.
@@hengloke We hate the American regime, not the people
@@Marc-. that's not mature. His intentions were good and I really think the old man would be such a cool person to meet. But I'm sorry, he was delusional. He was so blinded by his hate to the west, while worshipping Russia's Putin. Why should Russia's concerns be more important the Ukraine's thoughts on their safety. Do they really think Russia will be threatened but not Ukraine when it's beside a behemoth like Russia and a psycho for president. Was really disappointed in his opinion. But I've see a lot of old ppl like him that are usually good natured ppl, just misinformed and sticking to their stubborn narrative. Supporting Russia isn't supporting peace.
@@brandonhinojosa4202 the US would still not invade Mexico regardless. That's not how it goes. The US isn't like Russia, there are millions of people allowed to protest against the tyranny if it happened. Besides if the US invaded Mexico, because Mexico was seeking safety in Russia, then I would stand with Mexico.
So no I wouldn't feel the same way as the old man. Also the US didn't threaten to weaponize Ukraine! Remember that Russia started the war, even before Ukraine wanting to join NATO.. they started to bully Ukraine from the time of Crimea. And NATO isn't an offensive alliance, it's a defensive one. And they wouldn't originally accept Ukraine because it wasn't democratic and was too corrupt but it's just sad. And if Russia is making all those around it afraid of it, how is it the fault of those countries? And they were right. Look at Ukraine now, it's already being invaded despite Putin lying a week ago, saying he wouldn't invade.
Good interview and it does represent the general sentiment in China. A few interesting observation to share:
1) Chinese can generally relate to Putin's decision for war and still generally support russia, but they are also symphathetic to Ukrainian citizen (notice none have said much about Ukrainian gov) and is against war. Some Chinese (the minority) stand on the side of Ukraine more than russia.
2) They think that China should not intervene.
3) Most of them blames NATO and US more.
4) The girl refers to Xi as winnie the pooh and gets away with it. This debunks the idea that winnie the pooh is a forbidden subject in China. No secret police is going to go after you if you say Xi is like winnie the pooh.
5) One guy wish that China will have leader like putin and says it will be interesting. He is not alone and many people in China feels that Chinese gov is too soft on some issues. If China is a liberal "democracy", then there will be war already in Taiwan and South China Sea.
5 years at most and no more. Otherwise the people's will would be hard to contain.
@@frankmerriwell8339 what are you referring to?
what are the issues the chinese government is soft on?
@@qwkl2450 oh there are many. Take the toxic Chinese internet community for example. And the fact that there should be an increased police presence in local bars given that in my hometown I'm seeing brawls happening in such place recently.
@@typicalchineseguy5818 Toxic people are everywhere and more police presence in local bars is almost irrelevant to not offend you. Can´t compare with all the media censorship and games regulation for people under 18. Im no saying its something bad but it´s pretty strict
First time watching. Very good work sir! Subbed
Massive respect to you for putting the raw perspectives of the people.
this is all funded and condoned by the CCP
@@CaptainTodger69 yes, the dynamic here is really interesting. You highlighted a great point.
I love what she said at the end about teaching children to not foster hatred.
Too bad the CCP is doing that very thing.
@@iamaloafofbread8926 The CCP has done nothing wrong with China. They are protecting China from Japan, USA, Europe
@@Yangpeiling-de-zhangfu collapsing houses (literally and figuratively), flooding, several civil rights violations, and threating multiple sovereign countries. I know if you look up the imformation, your family can get imprisoned, tortured, or even killed. So, I'll leave ya with that.
@@Yangpeiling-de-zhangfu also, your CCPs blatant racism twards anyone that isn't Chinese and sexism twards women kinda hard to ignore.
and you can see tears in her eyes too.
Really amazing people in these videos. We wish you all the best China. Love and peace from Scotland❤️🏴
i lived in edinburgh 17 years ago for like a week. great memory always in my heart, it feels like last year. it changes permanently what I see the westerners, the british ,the scottish.
So you have no problem when they say that Russia is wright in invading Ukrain? They talk about peace and accuse the US and NATO but are trying to invade Taiwan and claim seas that are not theirs. Is that peace?
Russia now still illegal invaded and occupied 290 0000 square kilometers land originally belong to China , The Soviet Union encouraged Outer Mongolia to independence from China in 1994, with an area of 1.6 million square kilometers. Due to China's neighbor in the north, China lost a total of 4.5 million square kilometers of territory. The biggest damage to China in terms of territory was Russia and its predecessor
The Soviet Union did not exist in 1994
1894
Most of them don't like Putin's violent approach, but they sympathize with the motivation, because they understand what it's like to have the West stationing troops and installing weapons all around your country. Which side comes out stronger is different for each person.
EDIT: To people who just want to parrot NATO propaganda... why are you watching a video on the perspectives of people in other countries? So you can say they're wrong without trying to understand them?
This is exactly how i feel too.
Yeah and all those small countries bullied by China and Russia (Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Phillippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Mongolia) all value US having presence around China. Big countries always bully smaller ones and US generally protects the little guys, most times. If China has problems with all its neighbors than maybe China is the problem. I mean it's either the one kid that causes everyone problems is right or the entire classroom that says the one kid is a bully, you tell me what common sense says.
@@Hamlet137475 Indeed, to your point the existence of big country itself is just bully, we should crack the country up to satisfy you right? Sorry it is not the real rule of the world. Talk about Arizona, California and Texas with Mexican and see what you find.
@@Hamlet137475 You thought US is better because it just have 2 neighbours, I guess up to you UK and Japan should be the kindest in the world.
@@Hamlet137475 it is true that big country bully small country. But no country can compare to America, Britain and France. The countries you mention above are existing from thousand of years. Non of the races have been disappeared. The conflict between china and Taiwan was also seeded by British if you forget.
I really appreciate the comments and perspectives of the Chinese citizens. Thank you 😊
"Peace above all!" (Except for Taiwan).
It's great to see that even in China, they have divided opinions about the Russia Ukraine conflict. Good job AB, please make more of this content
It is filtered. Chinese are mostly pro russia. That lady in green is the minority
@@2024-l9n no lmao they act like that on the Internet because they're prob trolls stop bullshitting , and I doubt you live in china rn .
@@2024-l9n ?How do you know this is a minority? I have seen an interview in Beijing, and there are many people who support Ukraine.
@@2024-l9n also it seems to me the only and fully pro russian person is the old guy with the hat so doesn't really prove your point.
@@2024-l9n Very true. This interview is far from the majorities’ opinion. Perhaps, it’s because those whom been interviewed were elite shanghaiese who can afford to live in the wealthiest part of Shanghai.
I find the Chinese interviewees, whatever their views, very impressive. Well informed, articulate, I think far more sophisticated than one would find in most countries.
Because China has a very competitive social enviroment, the competition even starts from kindergarden, chinese kids need do a lot of work to go to college for getting a better life in the future. And also influenced by confucianism, chinese people highly valued education from thousand years ago, which is kind of a tradition.
@@mmathew8966 Thanks for the background
As a Chinese we are taught to see things in different perspectives and most things in life are not purely black and white. And another’s thing is that I think we don’t really see many western propaganda… Tbh I feel our official news agencies are more neutral than many western media. E.g comparing CGTN to BBC and CNN, you can see some stark contrast😅
It's always interesting to hear what the other side is thinking, and I commend you and your crew for always doing in-depth coverage like this 👏
They're not "the other side" they're just people with jobs, friends, and families like us. I think that's the point of these types of videos, to show how we're all actually quite similar in many ways. We're all just humans trying to make our way through life.
@@tinyard2024 They can't even choose their leader
@@치코리타-q4y they can choose new regulations
@@hargibson18 Agree, many people like to exaggerate (or imagine) the difference between race/nation/political system, but in fact they are all quite similar in general. I mean compare it with the history where there is no access to travel and Internet, no globalization, a lot of problems still persist today, at least now we have better translation tool and high-quality media like Asian Boss. Only when the world understand we are not that different as a human 'species', then our world will continue to progress.
@@치코리타-q4y South Korea is a colony of US lmao🤣🤣
This was a great interview!! As a Russian I am scared for our future, the future of Ukraine and how it will impact the world in general. Half of my family is Ukrainian and I feel helpless because no one can guarantee that this madness will end soon. But I have faith in people. And I hope we won’t hate each other for the horrible decisions our politicians have made ❤️🩹
I pray for peace for everyone
@@Love-pv6xs thank you, so do I 🙏🏻
We will not, we have to accept that Putin is a bit edgy and we have ultimately respect that. Sad that he thinks invading will put people on his side. He's digging is own grave at this point and the west shouldn't intervene in my opinion. I still think it's cruel, but when faced with cruelty, more cruelty isn't an option. I just don't think nuclear threat should ever be an option for any negociation what so ever. The fact that Putin is willing to play with those words means he doesn't deverse to lead your country in my opinion. Look at how China handled their war, they let it happen like a medieval war with freaking batons, no cilivian area was destroyed. That's how you keep peace.
I just hope someone in Russia could end that criminal's life ASAP, that's the only way to repair relationship between Ukraine and Russia
No i don't hate russians peoples for that.
I love how we get to really hear different perspectives through your channel. There’s only one narrative in traditional media all the time. It would do us all good to just calmly listen to a range of people and ponder, and realise that everyone is entitled to their own thoughts.
I strongly recommend Asian bosses to go to 『Taiwan』 to interview the same issue, to see the difference between Taiwanese and Chinese on the issue of Russian invasion of Ukraine, I think it will be very interesting!
Thanks for sharing these opinions
People are commenting that the translations arent 100% accurate when dealing with such a sensitive topic. Please address this, as a word here or there can make a large impact on its meaning
6:59 “China and Russia can be considered as allies in jointly confronting the United States…so-called allies; at least they have a common so-called enemy.” His using “so-called” made it clear that the relationship with Russia in fact is not an official alliance and the US is not officially an enemy. When omitting “so-called”, the translation missed what he said.
Asian Boss is no different from any other media and always has its bias. It’s not the first time they have this “mistranslation” issue and won’t be the last time. Even if they somehow fix this, they can always selectively present the content they want the audience to perceive through all kinds of methods. So, let it go …
I 100% agree! Glad to see others do too. I have been called all sorts of names online because I requested that people fixed their wording and it has been crazy.
Problem with translations is it's not as easy as word for word.
@Zefeng Chen We should hold the media, the press, etc., accountable and so we will NOT let it go
The level of understanding regarding the issue reveals the Chinese people are a testament that the Chinese government isn't bombarding their people with propaganda. They are a very thoughtful people. I would love to hear the answers of these same questions asked of US citizens.
it probably like this " i don't know isn't Russia an evil empire we should eliminate "
It is a rather complicated story. In current Chinese values, It is more important to have a united opinion (to survive) than have critical thinking(freedom). So if the Chinese government has a public and official opinion, most Chinese will unconsciously follow it without the need for propaganda, attack all who have an odd opinion, and blame them as betrayers. However, right now the government is as confused and nervous as the western world. So it does not provide any strong opinion officially to the people, only vague, neutral even fence-sitting declarations. China needs Russia as an ally but does not want to be dragged into a war. And China also starts to recall the bad memory about Russia (Guess what country took most territory from China in history)
@@knpnu9136 wht suggested is no matter wht, chinese ppl opinion doesnt count, at the same time american opinion even though after brainwarshed still more reliable?
lol do you know that you can see CCP propaganda billboard in china like everywhere.
@@knpnu9136 The West is neither free nor pluralistic, and has only one voice: sanctions against Russia, even Russia's cats.
it cool to see how there are differing sides, the younger people speaking in a way where they are more cautious and empathetic when explaining their thoughts while the older have a much stronger opinion
@9:42 when that girl said '' ...think about those Winnie the Pooh memes...'' , all u people from outside China knows that the BBC propaganda gotchu
Also much more brainwashed! This gives me hope for the future of China.
You are partly right
The translation twisted most of what the interviewed oeoplt said. Read the top comment. Complety propaganda.
its mainly because the older gen have been through the cold war which causes them to despise the US. Since the US is backing ukraine. Enemy of the enemy = foe, so they support Russia
Despite how the Western media portraying China as a place with absolutely no freedom, these ordinary folks speak no different than anyone on the streets in the West. I would even go on and say they sound more educated than what I would expect to see on average. Good job China, US has a lot to learn from
This was a really interesting contribution and gives us a glimpse of how divided opinions are in China. It is clear that opinions everywhere always depend on the information sources and the content that is made available to us so we must always listen to many different reports out there before forming a firm opinion. It also appears that most of the people of this world have compassion and really want the same - PEACE and Happiness!
Peace? Surrender is the only way. Always has been
@@albundy9706 and after surrender comes ? ....
@@biggim3265 u should be surprise on abc news how us chiense get bashed a lot ... think we ever side with russia lol
@@biggim3265 now you see my point
I am french and here on medias it's full fake news about China. Against North Korea, against Russia, against China. French media never give information but always say an idea there then another idea to brainwash french people, now almost all french 90% french people hate China, after being brainwashed so long time. I realized that the news in french media are all a copy of the US news, french journalists never investigate but always take a part of US newspaper or TV and put it in french media. It's like that in all western countries, and South Korea, India, Japan and other else called "allies", they all copy from US media. No one can trust western media, only going in place to see with our eyes is the truth.
Chinese language is a really beautiful language. And this is everytime I hear it
This topic isn’t easy, thank you Asian boss.
China can discuss anything, it's not what your country tells you, that's America's slander against China, America wants to make it look like China doesn't have freedom of speech
This video is really twisted. Asian Boss is not holding a neutral position at all.
@@酥妹 ah that’s why during the Olympics, foreign journalists were followed by average by talents 3 cars and agents shut down any possible interviews with locals. „Freedom of Speech“
@@foxkujo9684 Do you always like to talk in vain? This is not called freedom of speech! It's called nonsense
Chinese people are extremely informed, looks like the education level over there is top notch .
Actually, China's overall level of education, and its educational system, is worse than Mexico's.
Everyone is highly educated in comparison with you.
Nice joke.
It's good to hear different points of view from around the world. I think it helps us understand that we are all people. It's too bad our governments seem unable to do the same.
All they know how to do is divide us.Once they direct our anger at other people they can do whatever they want without any push back.
The unfortunate thing is that it is never about good and bad in politics. It is always about business! All politicians over the world show the same mindset. It's all about money and business and it doesn't matter how they can get what they want. The only thing that matters to them is that they get it. It's everywhere in the world like that. Instead of live and let live and respect this kind of mindset there are always many that don't want it that way.
Nato & U.S. could've also intervened,
if it wasn't that, they paused & think about the lives of their own people..
Glad they're not like those selfish authoritarian leaders. @_@
The translation have been altered…btw so propaganda
@@RexKo nato will nuke everyone on earth before ever accepting an alternative opinion. No opinion is any good except ours, let's nuke them, at least it saves having to learn chinese.....
Conclusion of that (I am watching street interviews from Russia as well) is that people all around the world are very similar. Everybody wants peace, prosperity and good future for their loved ones and a humanity in general. Nobody wants war and suffering. We live in different cultures but we are all humans and we should respect each other. Brother should not kill or harm a brother.
@Sergey Shiryak discussing with somebody who believes Putin's propaganda is pontless.
@@hab3e In fact, only idiots can believe in propaganda. Can we call many citizens of Western Europe and North America idiots?
People who do not accept their past and don’t respect heroes who gave their lives so that nowadays their grandchildren can live in peace can’t be called brothers.
Us，the human of canser，dont think like that
@@yeqiu774 Who is us 🤣
I liked how the lady in green jacket mentioned about the situation between Russia and Ukraine. I'm glad to know that many of them in China are aware of what's happening and have rational ideas and pursuing for the peace.
War was the only logical outcome of NATO antagonization. It's unfortunate that ppl don't know the background & context behind global events. They just see Russia invading Ukraine & say it's bad....they don't realize Russia's hand was forced. This is entire NATO/West's fault for using Ukraine as their puppet to antagonize & corner Russia into a corner. Russia is not a poor impoverished Iraq or Afghanistan...they responded with force. Now the poor ppl of Ukraine have to suffer for siding with the devil. Know the background plz.
@MoNash Thanks for spreading the truth!
@@monash4250 yes, very true, sadly little people know about this in the west.
@@monash4250 So no country has the right to join the alliance they want ? so you mean that ur a leader or a country and most population wants to join Nato and you let other countries decide your faith and ur beliefs?
@@monash4250 yes, Russia, the largest nuclear power alongside the USA, was treated by the country that gave up its nuclear weapons for the promise of territorial integrity. Yes. And the only thing the war achieved is a consolidation of NATO and rise of its popularity in Finland and Sweden.
I loved "This is an issue of another country's sovereignity, so China has no right to interfere" Why USA and EU always interfere in other's contriry's sovereignity under pretext of "democrazy"?
Cuz they want to spread “freedom” and “democracy”
@@user-kr1de8el7g there is not justice, war is a business from military complexes and political interests. Stop beautify wars. Let me tell you that Ukraine used to have good relationship with Russia when the interest was the same. As for Taiwan , I don’t think America cares about how many Taiwan people die just like they don’t care how many Slavic people die. As long as their political aim gets obtained. You fool should wake up.
@ry睿
US and EU invading countries as long as i know myself, dont be naive!
The common voice that resonated strongly with me is that no one likes war and everybody knows the severe consequences of a nuclear inferno. I am sure the feelings are mutual between the ordinary Russian and Ukrainian citizens. Hopefully the truce will be reached soon before one more drop of blood is shed.
How can you have a truce with a mass murderer of children? When people show you who they are, believe them. putin is a mass murderer of millions. putin is Putler. In the West, we thought NATO was a relic from the 1940s. Needless to say, from now on, if we live through putin's nuclear winter, NATO will be HUGE.
What would a "truce" look like. Putin leaving Ukraine? Please describe this to me.
@@alexwyler4570 I am not Chinese....but this is not mass murder...more like civilians caught up in shelling.....So far death of civilians is around 800-900 in 16 days.....When USA attacked Libya or Syria....I don't remember which one it was....15000 were killed in a single and first day....that was called mass murder....It's USA that provoked war between two brother's Russia and Ukraine....by setting up their puppet government in Ukraine in 2014.....
USA and UK is doing opposite what they shouldn't do...provoking Russia more.....Atleast France and Germany are better and trying to mediate...They need mediators not provokers right now.....
Condolence to the decreased people and their family as well as fallen soldiers of both countries....
@@alexwyler4570 stop listen west media pls
@@catherineskis A truce would be a simple end to fighting, and the taken areas become the new borders.
Love that we all want peace, but it’s sad our leaders make us think of each other as enemies. 😢
When has china's leader said anything about the US president?
"politics"
Must say, thank u for Twitter to correcting my pro-West behavior when i was young, I appreciate it. also thanks for western MSM and they kind westerner let me know how nasty and racism the west is🥰🥰
@@wamizheng2537 what exactly "the West" is?
@@wamizheng2537 I have to admit that there are bigots and hateful people here in the US but not all of us, friend. We work hard here in our small ways to be good people. I dream of a day when I can freely visit any place on earth. Maybe then we can share common experiences, hopes and dreams. I hope you find nothing but peace.
I appreciate the efforts Asian Boss puts in. Thank you for bringing in the various perspectives of people across Asia on so many topics over the years!
Asia boss is a media, they can be misleading while protending to be objective. If you go to Chinese social media and see for yourself, you will see that majority of people's opinions in China are like the old man's opinion in the video, and support Russia. But this video make it sound like all the young people in China are standing with Ukraine. That's not true. Many people may be against war , but very few people support Ukraine. Always remember media always has their own political agenda, no matter how "objective" they pretend to be. They may pay someone to say what they like to hear. So the best way to get information , is to see for yourself.
your comment is right，most people in China Especially old and women support Russia，They don't have the ability to think for themselves，they believe what media said.
These ordinary people in China are much more informed about Russia/Ukraine than I expected. Many Americans I've seen interviewed are much less informed on this topic.
Incredible. I’m from the UK and now feel ashamed of my prejudices against the Chinese fed by our media. What articulate and thoughtful people. We truly have more in common than I thought. Thank you for the video.
What prejudices are being fed to us from our media? Im from the UK, and ive seen none
@@Alexszhd thanks for giving me the opportunity to expand and explain. I
hear lots of talk about the Chinese stealing intellectual property, committing acts against Uyghurs, the communist party strong arming companies and media, siding with Russia by not condemning their actions, covering up the origins of covid etc. What this video showed me is that the general population of most countries are not involved in these acts and it’s actually the governments of all countries that have the problem with each other. I would love to do more travelling in the future to meet other cultures and better myself. If you haven’t seen any of these narratives in the last three years I feel I should probably change my news sources and ask where you go for neutral information? Kind regards.
@@aaronf4201 You didn't substantiate your claim that the British Media is prejudice against the Chinese People. What you did instead is agree that he CCP does all those terrible acts, but attribute British Media coverage as "attacking the Chinese people". How? Also, "this video shows the general population of China" bro are you seriously saying that a country with a billion people, with dozens of different cultures, languages, ethnicities... Is represented fairly with a few young adults from one city. Come on really? To trivialise our media by just such unsubstantiated claims of Racism, seems to indicate that you brought on those prejudices yourself. I've consumed a lot of media, majority on China - and I can say I hate the CCP wholeheartedly. I can also recognise that most Chinese people aren't doing what the CCP does.
No need to write the fact you had racist prejudices and now this one video changed your mind. Its such a cliche at this point. Where white westerners think that we are waiting for these type of messages. It also reflects back on White Supremacy. Look, you are worthy of my positive opinion, here, appreciate it, because it is important for a white person to acknowledge you. You're all racist to a degree, we know this, and also know how fragile it is. No need to remind us of it. Thank you.
The only prejudice we have is that xi acts as a dictator and that these Chinese citizens look quite happy with that. You have the gouvernants you deserve. True for the Brits too with their clown 😁
Thank you for making this video.
I am impressed by how informed and articulated the Chinese population is about world affairs.
One reason may be we were at the edge of the world for decades, the people living in the central area do not have the motivation to do that. Another thing is with long time record of history, Chinese are averagely more political than others in the world.
@@wolfheadedconjuror or you are, which is why many people believe people in China are ignorant. But in fact they are not but the west will NEVER cover news from China (or Russia) unless it’s bad. Especially America but that makes sense because they are kind of enemies but with the rest of the world being ignorant and call other ignorant is something that surprises me. I can’t believe you just call people brainwashed without actual information backing it up. I bet you heard the media or friends tell you this over and over which led you to believe half the population is brainwashed.
I mean I can’t say there isn’t propaganda but can you say there isn’t propaganda in literally EVERY country? In smaller forms or more obvious forms. Americans literally learn to see Russia and China as the enemy and if that isn’t propaganda at it’s finest I don’t know what is.
@@stanleyho8009 Why dont they condemn this illegal invasion by Russia and their war crimes though?
@@wolfheadedconjuror can u please watch the video before u comment
I hope they ask about the 8yrs internal war in Ukraine's Donbas, see how well they informed and articulated.
This is an amazing video! I am Belgian and I am astonished by the high level of intelligence en knowledge off the people who were interviewed. Also the way that they talk about peace and the respect they have for other countries, it’s amazing. Great respect for China❤! Lovely people!
I really enjoyed this interview, the questions were not shallow but thought provoking and resulted in insightful answers.
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Really disappointed with the quality of the translation. It's not just very loosely translated. Some sentences are barely related to the original or even mean the opposite. Here's a few examples of what the correct translation should be. Please judge for yourselves.
1:06 Personally, I think it might be too harsh to describe it as an "invasion".
4:08 dispatched their armed forces
4:23 They aimed their guns and missiles at Russia's door
4:53 (second sentence) if we can sign a treaty then we'll try not to resort to violence.
5:06-5:20 We shouldn't step in because Ukraine provoked the situation in the first place. Russia has been provoked, but it has not been invaded.
5:53 but we can urge them to stop or share our views.
6:15 We won't send weapons to the battlefield (meaning they won't contribute to the war)
8:19 blatantly (not blindly)
9:02 to tackle intense situations
12:20 I hope that the US can stop meddling in issues like this in the future so that there can be world peace.
15:18 The US benefits from our conflict. (Literally: The US is watching the tigers fight（观虎）. The Chinese saying 坐山观虎斗 "sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight" means to watch in safety whilst others fight then reap the rewards when both sides are exhausted)
16:45 no family can bear the pain of losing a loved one."
In West, I live in France, western people are 99% one-sided, they are brainwashed for decades and can't think by themselves and having different opinions, they became real robots in their head, closed in George Orwell's world in West, they can't escape, they can't think differently, only can think what media tell them. I hope I go back to China soon, with real humans who have different opinions, I can't bear western people these robots in West this George Orwell's world
@@tobytoxd 😆
In fact, China's consultation and freedom of speech are much better than those in the West. The western media are full of lies! Why do European and Western media dare not prove that they report China? That's because China is more fair and free of speech than them. Americans call a picture of a Chinese school a Chinese concentration camp. It's ridiculous that the whole west believes it!! Because Americans can start a war with a bag of washing powder!!! So the overall IQ of westerners is really not high! It's easy to be brainwashed by the media!
@@chinoisepatriote If the same Interview was held in the West, every interviewed would support war against China.
I feel ordinary Chinese are more peaceful than those who pursue "peace" on the Internet.
Even in app like Chinese UA-cam net people do same extreme things,and honestly speaking Chinese prefer to against with Chinese themselves.🤣🤣
Thank you for this. We are a global society now and it means so much to hear the thoughts and minds of people from the rest of the world.
this is propaganda. no one can go around china with pro video gear and asking random people on the street political questions without ccp permission
want to see real chinese view? use vpn go on weibo and chinese tiktok
What a great way to think! We are all connected now. One world, one people.
@@neogenzim1995 I think this street interview is the real of what Chinese people thinking, Weibo and Chinese TikTok are places to propaganda.
putin does not think we are a global society. putin wants to control the world.
Even if they are WRONG!
Much love to all from a USA citizen. Hoping for peace for all.
A nice look at the perspective of Chinese citizens on this war; to me it proves that we ARE all one people and should learn to settle differences with words, not violence. Make war no more.
Brian Swanson ... Unfortunately, that's not possible in the near future... However, if you are familiar with, or become familiar with, the current cosmological projections of the Universe... Eventually, we will all be so mute, and distant from one another, that war will inevitably become...impossible! Of course, that means that our existence will, inevitably, become non-existent as well.
As long as evil is in the world good people will fight it.
Where there is evil there is no peace.
We all have to fight evil daily, even in our own minds. War is not evil but evil people are inherent violent.
Good people stand up for eachother.
Good people are not on the sidelines.
@@alexashworth3119 there is a difference between being a good person (someone that tries, not to cause harm, and instead, tries to help others, when they can)... And being an altruistic person (someone that will risk their own life, in order to save another's life).
@@marsmancho
You can call it what you want.
The truth real love is when someone is willing to lay down their own life for someone else's.
In one way or another sacrifice is the mark of a person who has love.
Whether you sacrifice your life, your time, your money, love isn't selfish.
God is love.
yeah tell that to ukraine.
Thank you Asian Boss for helping spread empathy and understanding. A lot of people on both sides need it these days.
As an American living in Norway, I gotta say - though we westerners and our Chinese/Russian brothers and sisters don’t agree on much it’s comforting to know we can all come together and acknowledge that world war 3 should not (and god willing will not) happen. Here’s hoping we can resolve our issues calmly and one day maybe - just maybe - live in true peace without animosity.
Not everyone thinks that way. A lot of politicians, you know, are stirring things up...
@@caomilo1031 A weaker and still aggressive Russia fits America's interests at most.
@RedJoker It's terrible, but to be fair, the US invaded Iraq illegally and has caused over one million deaths. We're not that innocent either. The US has caused or contributed to many conflicts in Central Asia, Middle East and Latin America and Europe has caused a great deal of damage to innocent countries around the world over the last few centuries.
Very one wants their own Vietnam its good for the film industry prosthetics manufacturers and grave diggers
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Good video. Range of opinions and unbiased dialogue. Goes to show how filtered information is when it gets to the news and also how where you live affects what you hear.
@Rawr Cookie yeah I think everyone knows
"unbiased dialogue" probably the dumbest description of this video by far.
@@stansmith7445 that's really biased to say that. You clearly white with a superiority complex
These people cannot speak freely btw if you can control all the news and info someone gets to hear then you can control there perception of reality
Ganesh God 👈👈👈 feck account
Very impressed with the knowledge and educated thoughts of the respondants.
Somehow I felt Chinese people are more frankly and openly talking about all the issues. I like these interviews
This was a very reassuring interview. We are more alike than different no matter our country. We want to live in peace and resolve our differences peacefully for our children's sake. Thank you
Check out the mistranslations... it may change your perspective.
I think your reaction was exactly what this highly mistranslated interview was meant to do
Exactly. That's how most people feel in every country. Gov-ernm-ents are dictat-ors start wars. Not the people.
As someone who has tried to fight racism and strive for equality for all, I find the attitudes in this video nothing short of heart breaking.
I strongly recommend Asian bosses to go to 『Taiwan』 to interview the same issue, to see the difference between Taiwanese and Chinese on the issue of Russian invasion of Ukraine, I think it will be very interesting!
Fantastic work Asian Boss. I am floored at the shear diversity of opinions on various issues from Chinese citizens. And those are not just superficial regurgitation of what’s been broadcasted on the news, but substantive and well informed opinions. Keep it up Asian Boss.
Im glad because people keep trying to discount the opinions of actual Chinese people on the internet by saying they’re ‘CCP BOTS’ when in fact literally everyone thinks for themselves and makes up their own mind. Im sure a lot of western people think China’s a monolith of one personality.
In fact, China's consultation and freedom of speech are much better than those in the West. The western media are full of lies! Why do European and Western media dare not prove that they report China? That's because China is more fair and free of speech than them. Americans call a picture of a Chinese school a Chinese concentration camp. It's ridiculous that the whole west believes it!! Because Americans can start a war with a bag of washing powder!!! So the overall IQ of westerners is really not high! It's easy to be brainwashed by the media!!
I’m Russian and I love Chinese people !!! 🧡🇷🇺 🇨🇳
as a Chinese my dad hate russia，some of my classmate support russia，also i like russia little much（i love alex misko by his music），but we all wish that war come over🐼🐻
I like Russian too
@@adonorcurry3025 i support Russia because i see the nazi character upon the ukraine soldier s body🙊
Thank you so much.
@@gogolljon8280 IMAO ,you will change your mind if you know about Mr Putin's true nature. This one is used to called the leader of west wing in europe.He is actually the king of slavic nazi orgnizaiton in post USSR counrtries.
I like your street interviews and the different opinions you get are always helpful to understand Asia's society even more.
Not really. The translation is not accurate at many important places
Me too , we all love Chinese propaganda videos !
@@user-ol1ut2in1h not everything opposing YOUR opinion is propaganda. Actually, even in this video there are contrary opinions.
@@user-ol1ut2in1h stay brainwashed
准确说，不是亚洲社会，顶多算中国上海地区社会
What strikes me about this is how well informed the people interviewed are. Not stupid and ignorant and have definite opinions.
Like the most of people in everyone’s school that thinks Putin is reforming the USSR
@Harambe E, haha yes, I’m sadly that even in Russia there is the people thinks like that, I think: they didn’t lived in 90s?! They didn’t saw US president was happy to win in Cold War during here it grower alcoholism, drugs, death, poor etc… that’s makes me crazy😞
@@MonkeSquid69 he did say multiple times himself that he wants to do that, though
definitely a more plausible explanation than him "wanting to protect Russian-speaking citizens" - considering that all the bombings of civilian infrastructure that his soldiers carry out usually strike Russian speakers the hardest, ironically
Lol. Just don't like the western media said...
@@SaturnineXTS no he didn’t, he in fact makes propaganda against ussr
You can see how different a perspective is from one generation to another.
In my view it s more a matter of experience. People who have experienced war knows the importance of defence. However I agree its also a matter of age, young people are often more idealistic, and less realistic.
@9:42 when that girl said '' ...think about those Winnie the Pooh memes...'' , all u people from outside China knows that the BBC propaganda gotchu
@@jinchengzou5525 yeah, most people believe that winnie the pooh is banned in China, there is literally a ride called "the many adventures of winnie the pooh" in Shanghai Disneyland.
young people are more brainwahsed by western media and immature
Not really, there are plenty of young Chinese that supports Russia.
The pro-Russia argument stems from a general hatred towards NATO (they did bomb the Chinese embassy in Belgrade).
As well as seeing Russia as a friend standing up to the West.
These comments show a much higher level of maturity in Mainland China. Don't underestimate these people's right to express themselves on issues affecting their cousins in Taiwan.
As a Chinese, I can say we will not help Russia to attack Ukraine but we will not let Russia fall down after this war either.
So you see it as a war, but you are alright with it if someone starts a war?
@@rain7671 No, he said he does not support Russias War, but wants to intervene, if it is getting attacked.
Because your authoritarian regime with perfect objective politicians(Dictatorship) is like the the Russian way(Putin is Adolf 2.0)
The Chinese think China first. I don't think for example Germany first. We live on the same planet(have to protect it) and everything else is childish.
@@Chrismay-qp4xj 要不要保护伊拉克？要不要保护阿富汗？你们西方人就只有当危险在身边时才会感到害怕。 无论是二战时对于德国的绥靖正常，还是伊拉克、叙利亚、利比亚、阿富汗战争，你们西方人的虚伪 展现的淋漓尽致。别用你那无知的嘴脸去呼吁和平，因为你们不配。甚至让我觉得你们很恶心。你们的国家对于中东难民和乌克兰难民，展现了完全不同的态度。你们的媒体甚至在报道这些的时候完全用了不同的态度。虚伪的垃圾。
@@Chrismay-qp4xj instead of childish globalism, we talk about internationalism
These interviews enlightened me to understand the complexities of how Chinese people view world politics. Every person interviewed is so intelligent and articulate. The Chinese people seem like amazing people.
Interviewing random people on streets by foreign media is illegal, the interviews must be pre-arranged and must support the official state narrative.
The real Chinese view are the exact opposite of what you see in this video. Find out on Chinese tiktok weibo xiguashipin - do not get deceived.
@@luolw Why are you so fond of rumor-mongering?China is interviewed on the street without any restrictions at all.
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they're not, In China they're spreading hatred towards the west, and Ukrainian president, and they're very pro-war and pro-Russia. that's the only correct perspective in China. They even mocking death of victims.
@@luolw you lie
@MrSinister haha, peace and money, very wise comments
pretty cool that you covered this, but you really should up your translation game. Quite a few lines in the English translation are not what the interviewees said in Chinese, some of the lines are even translated to the opposite meaning of what the interviewee actually said. I'm going to assume it's just that your translator's Chinese comprehension skills are not ideal, and that the mistranslations are not intentional. But some of those mistranslated lines do look like they lean a particular way.
All these comments make me think any one of them would bring peace if they were head of a country. They have sense, compassion and peace in their minds.
I don't think the translation for this video was done very well. There was a lot of mistranslation of what people said that was almost the opposite of what they actually said, and a lot of terms and saying that could have been easily translated to English which was left out of the subtitles. Usually your videos are well translated, so I'm disappointed for this one.
What are some parts that have been mistranslated? I’d like to know as someone who can’t understand Chinese.
Indeed 👍
Asian Boss is usually pretty accurate, but this one fell a bit short
@@Mibs-Mibby Just some examples, but doesn't cover all of it:
At 1:07 the woman answers: "I think using the word "invasion" is being too severe. this is my personal feeling." Which implies she doesn't tihnk it should be called an invasion.
At 4:20 the man says: "Because NATO is expanding east, to Russia's doorstep. They're aiming cannons, missiles, rockets, at Russia's door. Putin felt threated and retaliated"
At 5:04 the woman answers "I feel we shouldn't interfere. Firstly, Ukraine stirred up trouble and aggravated Russia. It's not Russia being invaded. If Russia got invaded we could help."
Agree. Lots of nuanced replies were translated into simple answers.
13:28 The whole section about Taiwan was roughly done, sentences cut short. Didn’t at all reflect the depth and thought process of the replies.
But hats off to the interviewer for getting these profound answers.
Yes. It's especially frustrating because information should be relayed clearly especially at a time like this. Translation errors are not uncommon when Asianboss holds interviews in China, but this video has done a really bad job conveying what citizens have to say on the topic. I hope it gets better.
China and Russia have not been true allies since the Sino-Soviet split, but their shared enemy of the United States and Western Europe have forced them into a slightly uneasy friendship. I remember not long ago many Chinese were upset when Russia celebrated the anniversary of Vladivostok. There is still some tension there looming below the surface.
enemy's enemy is my friend simple is that
although i don't think EU is china's enemy. AMERICA IS I HATE THEM
@@snowzyk4636
EU can be allies of China. one belt one road is heading for EU and they do welcome.
Yea plus when India and China had issues. Russia supported India. Well tbf they have been in a closer relationship since way before China joined
@@mamamoofangirl2319 china can be your friend too if indian don't mind
Seeing these street interviews with normal young and old people you come to understand that China is a wise and understandable nation.
Sounds like some think NATO is a threat to Russia, but Russia is not a threat to NATO. Who invaded an independent country in a land grab? NATO or Russia. Hint Russia invaded Ukraine
China have similar plans for their neighbours so no wonder they don't see any issue with one country invading and occupying another.
I love the well thought out answers from the Chinese. Keep up the good work.
4:25 the translation is in sufficient. What the man said is not merely "They're knocking on Russia's door". He actualy said "guns and missiles are pointing at Russia"
@Bringette Awnn He means Russia is defending itself from NATO expending to Ukraine, and then missiles are pointing at Russia, and then there will be no buffer area between NATO and Russia
knocking on Russia’s door is an idiom, when something/someone is getting too close. Chinese has many idioms, same as English.
Ooh thanks for the correction!
@Bringette Awnn simpler terms. Putin no likey NATO expand. Ukraine wants to join NATO.
Putin angry and scared
@@shawnshawn8888 we already see who's scared lol, soon they will be in Kiev
I don´t mean to be rude, but you really should re-upload this video with correct translations. This video in its form right now is very misleading to anyone not reading the pinned comment and I do not think spreading misinformation is something you advocate on your channel either.
нацистов не должно остаться на украине
@@o_0zzz957 yes
@@o_0zzz957 согласен, российские войска должны быть выведены из Украины
@@o_0zzz957 Absolutely, russian fascists should leave Ukraine.
@@shrexbomb I agree. De-Nazification of Ukraine, withdrawal of Russian troops, everything to peace, because Putin's condition is to demand that Ukraine be de-Nazified. It was clear that Ukraine had the worst luck this time, but it was the Nazi militias in Ukraine that left the worst impression on me, not Russia.
The Chinese people have a lot of common sense and they speak far more intellectually about this issue than we do in the US. Of course, we want Ukraine to maintain its defense and sovereignty over Russia but it sure seems like most Chinese people feel the same way.
Thanks for the research and interviews. Good to hear ordinary Chinese sharing their thoughts on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
8:19
The translation here is wrong, he said he doesn't think China will
openly support Russia‘s attack. But China and Russia have a close relationship better than China and the West.
ive worked with quite a few chinese people (based in shenzhen)- they are a lovely people who are also misunderstood by the west... thank you for providing this insight... i hope more people get to see this video and stop fostering all the hatred we have in the world between these nations ...like the dude in the black jacket said... ordinary people are innocent in all of this ...that extends to every side and the overwhelming majority of humans on planet earth... love to you all!
Genocide of the Uyghurs ring a bell , Tibet and Hong Kong. Freedom of speech.
Well said.
You can't be neutral on a moving train.
@Ryan Tandy that's what your Hollywood told you. Russia wouldn't have give aid to the Ukraine people if that's the case
@@frankmaxwell5193 Yes and I'm sure all 1.4 billion Chinese were completely to blame for those CCP decisions.
i can't say much about how representative these interviews were in terms of the chinese population. But these people are seemingly well informed, very well educated and less manipulated by media propaganda of any colour than what i expect to hear from people in Europe. This alone is reason to be optimistic for Chinas future.
« China always wants peace », « Russia is just defending itself » … I don’t know that seems pretty much like your average propaganda
lol, they are mostly saying stupid manipulative lies about peace while ignoring the crimes russians are doing.
Intelligent, rational, peaceful people.
Thanks for this video. I'm russian, and I see that people of China are truly think good about Russia. Thank's for this words, people of big China brother.
Привет. But reading comments make me angry. Those comments are still supporting Ukraine. Some of these people in the comments are laughing at the grandpa and saying that he is wrong mind.
Brainwashed people. If they do not know the history behind Ukrainian nazis, they do not have a right to blame Russia for this operation.
@@remixpanda1490 don’t be mad at them. That’s how propaganda works. And till USA propaganda works that way - military operations of USA are good thing, and any other countries don’t have rights to do anything like them.
We live in capitalistic, unipolar world. But the times, they are changing. You’re not alone, who use critical thinking.
Be well and healthy, best regards.
@@remixpanda1490 There are 1.4 billion people in China, and you can't expect everyone to be on the same page. Overall, 70 to 80 percent of Chinese support Putin. This video just finds some naysayers to keep the balance.
@@LeafLampLight yep. You are correct. More to say, someone commented that nazis are Russian and Chinese. Wow. Someone doesn’t know anything about history.. what a shame. Thankfully it is not us my friend
@@huas5350 We against US
Right away there's a HUGE mistake in translation. @01:06 she said "我觉得用入侵这个词可能有点。。太严重了" which means "I think to use the word 'invasion' (to describe what happened) is a little ... too severe".
Meaning she didn't think Russia "invaded" Ukraine, but probably just a "special military operation" as claimed by Putin.
Definitely not "I think the invasion is quite extreme".
I think the word "invasion" is quite extreme, may better in this way.
The word invasion, in our dictionary, mostly mean the occupation of land. Since Putin said that he will not occupy Ukraine, but only wanted to maintain peace and target the Ukrainian government, we don't completely agree that this is an invasion. Because in the end, his soldiers must fulfill his promise and return to his country.
However, due to the resistance of the Ukrainian President, some of us believe that Putin will not retreat after the victory, because the cost of this battle is too huge, and it is not cost-effective for Russia to retreat with nothing.
@@titan480 president Putin also said he won't attack Ukraine. He said he won't be a president for the third time. He sais he'll make 20 million of working places for Russians in three years. In 2014 he said there was no Russian forces in Crimea and in 2015 he said the opposite. He said he won't increase a pension age as long as he's a president. He said he'd never change a constitution. Do I even have to continue? I believe he never said one thing. He never said that you're smarter than a rock.
@@AlexA-eg7gz What you are talking about is Russia's internal affairs, why should we interfere in Russia's internal affairs like you? We have criticized the United States many times for not interfering in our internal affairs. Similarly, we will not interfere in other countries' internal affairs, but some Captain America just likes to stir up trouble, lest the world be in chaos.
@@AlexA-eg7gz You are so righteous, why don't you go to war for Ukraine? Ukraine is so pitiful, why didn't its allies fight for him? Because everyone knows that the war will damages themselves, and no one dares to despise the war. However, Ukraine itself underestimated the possibility of war and was beaten by Russia, and their president refused to surrender and send gave weapons to his civilian. Who is to blame? The so-called clean officials are difficult to judge in families matter, we insist on our own position, what is the problem?
I think that the Russian and Chinese alliance makes sense. It's not like hegemony ever works, certainly not in politics or international politics.
It does not. It is important for China to have a peaceful relation to Russia, but an alliance with them will held back China. Cultivate the relation to the US is what can help China. The relation is bad now but it can be improved.
@@dgib1694 It's the US that doesn't want to cultivate relations.
@@dgib1694 Alliance... relationship... Tomayto... Tomahto... Same difference. The point is that the relationship makes sense, because they complement each other very well - both economically and, increasingly, also geopolitically thanks to a belligerent USA.
@@Lu-MingPan-b5w Who says?
@@Orwellian-Purple-Grapes-1984 "Orwellian" is the right descriptor for you where you engage in "Newspeak."The USA is not "belligerent" at all. On the contrary, US administrations from Clinton to Obama and Biden have all been very naive when it comes to Ruzzia's imperialistic plans.
Was it the US that seized the Crimean Parliament and forced them, at gun point, to "vote" to return to Ruzzia? Was it the US that sent disguised soldiers into Donbas to create a fake civil war? Did the US pour thousands of troops into Russia from Ukraine or anywhere else?
THANK YOU THANK YOU. I’ve been listening to every news source I can on this issues. Pro Russia. Anti Russia. Pro US. Anti US.
Everyone always says the news is “fake” when the news doesn’t say what they want it to say.
This is why what you do is so important. Thank you.
Thanks to all who helped out with the more "accurate" translations. One or two words added or omitted makes a huge differences in English, along with the punctuation.
1:05 She said using the word "invasion" isn't a proper approach. Please make correct translation instead of mis-leading.