China is Kinda Sus...

[@Azeal]

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[@jackirish9022]

Unfortunately the Chinese government is probably going to take this video down here's hoping they don't

[@makidiaz3894]

You will break 40k views with my blessing

[@NaughtyNovaroo69]

It's a authoritarian dictatorship that goes way too privately into their citizens ans anyone other then Han Chinese just like nazi Germany, add their disgusting human right abuses like the rape and forced brainwashing concentration camps of Muslims that they invaded back in 40s 50s Now imagine being a Asian country dealing with em or being abused pacific nation like Australia NZ and poorer Island nations. I'm not surprised from what his been saying This is why We need to deal with China Russia Iran NK first before dealing with congress parliament and big Ben or else they'll use the left and right to cripple us before they take over

[@NaughtyNovaroo69]

Also it saddens Me that China is so abused amd used and polluted and pisened by the current regime, I feel bad for those who actually care and want freedom and have China at a respectable population and not overgrown like India As a Aussie and with 26 Mil population, when China India gets too overpopulated it affects everyone and the risks of diseases viruses and shit as well as food shortages and energy and resource shortages doesn't help smaller country's to grow It sounds wrong but when shit hit the fans ut doesn't go well for everybody, The moon and Mars ain't fully terraformed and colonised so We don't have a second chance This is why populations need to be limited and spread out so a rock doesn't take half of humanity with it, there's like 3 billion that would die if 2 rocks hit China India so try minus that from the world It doesn't sound a great way to go out and seeing family and things that make a Indian in Australia Indian as their culture history politics food music etc If you understand My POV and see the reasons I'm concerned with India and China being so overpopulated and not letting other poorer countries can't grow population because of others taking more space in the train that has limited space

[@Phyciene]

Hey azeal not tryna tell you how to do your job your channel and all however considering the us gov nearly killed your channel maybe don't argue a way less lenient government

[@Maceman486]

I've read articles that said that rich chinese people pay poor people to act as a body double to go to prison for them if they are actually charged with a crime.

[@Azeal]

holy shit that's wild

[@imdeadinside792]

yea it happens in a lot of countrys

[@ArmoredNeko]

@@Azeal Oh that's correct I happen to know how that works. Basically in China there's this legal representative who will be sued and jailed if the company does something VERY wrong, and everyone else in the company can get away with anything as long as he pins it on the company. And then ofc you will see companies hiring legal representatives, weirdly doesn't need ANY working experiences and pay a pretty high salary....and everyone knows exactly what's the actual job requirement.

[@atranimecs]

Theres a lot of terrible things going on in China. The rich/politicians kidnap younger people and take their organs. Every old Chinese politician has basically had an organ transplant, some even bragged about their "young spirit. Throw in fake COVID positive test status lit up on Chinese people trying to flee China during increasing lockdowns, genocide of Uyghurs, social credit scores and their overreaching undercover police stations found in foreign countries under Operation Fox Hunt....the Chinese govt is horrifying.

[@bignerd3783]

breaking bad reference

[@vaguemyas7577]

A couple notes, their are two types of educational path a kid can take. 1: Domestic 2: International If you chose the first path you will have the most competitive experience you can imagine, you will study when you sleep. Or 2: International Which is the path I took, pretty much an more expensive alternative that gives you a normal primary to high school experience since you’ll apply internationally. Hence my sexy English fluency. It’s not all competitive, but most are. *Wrote more information in the comments.

[@vaguemyas7577]

I hope to clear some things up so that my people and country wouldn’t be misunderstood, please don’t see us in a negative way.

[@vaguemyas7577]

Also a correction, the “he, and she” is pronounced the same, but they are differently written, 他 and 她, left one is he, right one is she, she has a 女, and many words with this part are feminine and targets more female. So no, they are not all non binary.

[@vaguemyas7577]

Thirdly, yes, a lot of Japanese racism are targeted. That is a fact, there are even slurs invented to call Japanese, “Japanese terrorist.” A lot of shows are made where the Japanese are antagonists. The reason goes back pretty far to ww2 and the Japanese expansion, a lot of people died from Japan’s invasion, such as the Rape of NanJing. We didn’t have the force at the time to defend ourselves and no other country tried to help us. So a lot of resentment still carries on to this day.

[@vaguemyas7577]

Yeah and our country is very advanced in technology. Going from a big boi city in Shanghai to the bum fuck nowhere of New Hampshire. Shit man, I miss all the cool stuff.

[@Azeal]

fascinating, thank you for sharing!

[@chiprey_78]

Bros out here exposing governments omg 😭 good video as always Azeal! Love your work but Christ almighty please be safe 😭😭

[@Azeal]

thank you!

[@PewPewCricket]

@@Azeal U.S. Navy flashbacks

[@masterjunko]

@@PewPewCricket Oh god pls no

[@AFIoridaman]

​@@PewPewCricket except instead of the video it gonna be him that disappears

[@jasonhammond4301]

​@@PewPewCricket at least KZbin is already banned in China, so they don't have much need or say to try to do anything about Azeal's channel.

[@Jordanime]

Audience: Oof, Azeal pissed off the US Navy. I'm sure he won't rock a bigger boat than that. Azeal: Hold my virtual beer..

[@zhongli5689]

Accurate

[@didntmeantokillemtwasaaccident]

im sure nothing will happen to them in the next week. surely the chinese government wouldnt appear at their doorstep

[@kyze8284]

Seriously I just watched that “I pissed off the navy” video and thought “at least he didn’t piss off something like Russian or Chinese governme- AZAEL NO!”

[@NahIdSword]

@@kyze8284 same, hes just there to make governments mad and i support him

[@matthiasthulman4058]

​@@kyze8284 is the video still up,I can't find it 😐

[@gogmaziosfuse1151]

Azeal is pissing off everyone this arc is concerning but cool

[@Azeal]

hell yeah >:)

[@PainFlavouredTrash]

I live with the guy, I'm waiting for our house to get raided

[@DonPatrono]

Pls Aze do not get Epstein'ed

[@hunterarmstrong2886]

and you know that the only people that he is not pissing off are conservatives.

[@DonPatrono]

@@hunterarmstrong2886 >"he doesn't piss off conservatives" >SecNav has blacklisted him and has issued a safety brief about him, routinely talks about and with oppressed minorities, sexually profiled non-binary people and sometimes both, and other that conservatives would call "undesirables", has had on a literal vrchat adult actress and a professional domme mistress while also having former neonazis, rationalist satanists, bounty hunters, YPG foreign volunteers etc. ....I rest my case

[@fluffypotatocow]

Always interesting to hear other people talk about their experience living in china, seeing as i lived there myself for three years as a foreigner from America myself, i can confirm based on my own personal experience that everything he said was true.

[@Damian_1989]

Azeal be like "pissing off the US Military brought me some unintended consequences... NOW LET'S PISS OFF CHINA :D"

[@Azeal]

indeed >:)

[@hungrymusicwolf]

@@Azeal Next off on your journey to piss off as many powerful entities as possible: "let's piss off every country in NATO simultaneously!" All jokes aside, thank you for your work. It's always great to see powerful entities being exposed for their shady actions.

[@PhoniexStudio]

Gigachad move

[@randomyankee8923]

Bro is about to dissapear to a camp in Xinjiang

[@GooberMcChickenfingers]

@@randomyankee8923 might actually happen

[@tg286]

WE LOVE YOU AZEAL, even if the united states government is censoring you

[@Azeal]

🧡

[@NinjaBray]

@@QVUTDN The government can threaten to fire a certain sailor, that's what they mean by "censoring"

[@JTruong3rd]

Half the stuff here were talked about in China Uncensored, what we hear is just the tip of the iceberg from what we know. One that haunted me still is that footage of a lady being forced into some metal box and her screaming shortly after, some speculated that was a mobile incinerator they pushed her into.

[@08eks]

I used to watch them but they are actually pretty biased, they are sponsored by a pretty corrupt group if you do some digging

[@rimworld64]

I doubt it was an incinerator, maybe a gas chamber (not like mustard gas or anything, just stuff to knock out or immobilse someone, after all, a worker is more valuable alive, than dead.)

[@smolangelsdoodles]

What the absolute fuck???

[@archoftrees]

​@@rimworld64 I think you underestimate how many people live in China

[@rimworld64]

@@archoftrees about 4 billion, i know.

[@AffyMoon]

The vaccination camps bit is actually wild holy shit

[@PewPewCricket]

*vaccination*

[@notoriousgoblin83]

*But wait, there's more!*

[@jaredmorton6546]

You’re really gonna freak out when you hear about the uegeyr camps

[@AffyMoon]

@@jaredmorton6546 Ueygur camps are well known about it's so it's not surprising to me. Especially since I actually live kinda close to Turkistan

[@spawnkeeper999]

They also have concentration camps where they are killing and sterilizing a minority group within the country.

[@hungrymusicwolf]

"China is kinda sus" - the understatement of the year.

[@Azeal]

true lmao

[@bluevines1303]

More like underststement of the fucking mellenia

[@thegreengouf56]

Man, I really miss Azeal, ever since he talked about china and then un alived himself with multiple minecraft gunshots to the back of the head, cyanide capsules and all while hanging from a tree. He must've been real depressed and talented to pull that self unaliving off. I still don't understand why the unalive note was in Chinese. Weird. RIP bruh. We all miss you.

[@HelloWorldMyNameIsLyra]

Truly a sad day for [CHINA] we will forget him very soon..

[@Azeal]

[response redacted]

[@Aaron-zu3xn]

he cut his own head off then lit his house on fire,crazy stuff,the autopsy says he hot himself in his lower back 6 times before he cut his own head off

[@HelloWorldMyNameIsLyra]

@@Aaron-zu3xn[China] is in no way affiliated with this [Good] turn of events.

[@nossea]

I just wanted to say thank you real quick Azeal. You have a lot more will than I and your ability to persevere is something I truly admire. I'm still young, probably a little too young to be learning how awful some aspects of the world are without adding another mental illness to my collection of adjectives. But the fact that I can hear these tragedies at all is incredible, and it's because of you. I would rather see the world as it is than as the lies that those before me tell so I remain fuel in their machine. Your videos, this catalog of perspectives, are seeds of truth that would otherwise be discarded, forgotten, or destroyed. I'm looking forward to the day yours among many others, maybe even my own, bloom and things change. And when they do I'll make sure to water and fight to protect them, one petal at a time. You give me true hope amongst lies. Thank you.

[@TheKiltedGerman]

Also, the oversized Toon Link avatar in Ocarina of Time Hyrule Castle Town is ripping my brain in half.

[@Azeal]

LOL I was waiting for someone to notice

[@TheKiltedGerman]

@@Azeal Woot woot.

[@Brenilla]

The best way to describe how china is A Giant Contradiction. But in a bad way. My family has had Chinese exchange students before. They had a two week special programs for it. they go to homes in pairs, and have a firm scedual. It was verry interested talking to them. We mostly talked to the girl pair we had. It was verry bazare hearing how they were in college, and how they got there. Like one had the major she wanted because she was lucky enough to get out into it. Wile the other wanted to go to this other major but wasn’t put in. By the way they described it, it sounded more random versus being a “best fit” or didn’t make it kind of thing. They were content about it tho… or at least kept the face up for that. It was also interesting hearing how they didn’t really have family dinners as a way to be a family, just kinda how it was. This was years ago so my memory is a little hazy, it had somthing mentioned on how they wouldn’t really go back home and prepare or have dinner with the family as a familial thing. It was certainly interesting… As for all countries with intense governments, love the people, don’t love the government. :D

[@bedstiker1]

Fantastic video as always, whatever selection process you have for interviewees is great.

[@Azeal]

thank you!! I try my best :D

[@militantpacifist4087]

Hopefully neither Nintendo ninjas or the Chinese government will take this video down because of either you’re using Toon Link or because this person is exposing the Chinese government respectively.

[@orcaolivegames]

I love that Azeal saying Based at 20:53 seemed like instinct

[@chiprey_78]

It was a primal instinct 😭

[@hapticwarframe5730]

read it at the exact moment it happened

[@JDimitrius433]

he might have been doing a thanksgiving turkey tutorial on the side "baste"

[@MisterStroodle]

Something feels wrong about talking to an English teacher who can barely speak Chinese, who was visiting the PRC on a several month contract during the pandemic, and then framing the culture shock and very unique circumstance as "You can't go back to China after this one!". Nice conversation, but the perspective seems narrow.

[@Yugyuk]

I'll set this on my watch later list rn I need to go to sleep.

[@Azeal]

sleep well! ^^

[@J._.R577]

My friend got accepted to a college in China and he said he is likely going to spend the rest of his days there (he has some family there too). I wish the best for him after hearing this 😭

[@Lao_lu]

You should believe your friend more, this guy is telling wild stories for clout. China is a great place to live, and is not like what this guy is saying at all.

[@J._.R577]

@@Lao_lu idk bro this plus what I’ve been hearing what things are like over there as far as privacy and corruption make it a hard pass for me. The culture seems really nice though.

[@Lao_lu]

@@J._.R577 Well, privacy concerns are the same all over the world. the NSA can read all your messages. even in signal app. So what do you mean? I've never felt any concerns about my privacy here. It's also possible to use a vpn in China to hide your ip and things. If you wanna talk about corruption, lobbying is the largest cause of it, and lobbying is illegal in China. it's impossible to find any positive stories about the Chinese government in the media, its the msm's modus operandi, so take what you read bout corruption and such with a pinch of salt.

[@bioshock2712]

​@@Lao_lu hmmm yes, Asian sounding name saying that china is not an evil dictatorial ethnostate. I wonder if this is propaganda.

[@Lao_lu]

I am from England. but I talk from experience living in China. lao lu is the nickname my friends gave me in China. @@bioshock2712

[@DoodlebugDrawz]

clicked for toon link and stayed for the actual video

[@TheKiltedGerman]

This channel is a goddamn gem.

[@mrstickmantas]

I already disliked China before this. This adds. Great video fr

[@Azeal]

indeed and thank you!

[@masamune9082]

-500 social credits

[@tarickw]

hard counter on the still disliking the japanese: the japanese have never accepted what they did and are actively denying it. so yeah, agree on that chinese person there for still holding the grugde

[@DVX_Oblast]

I wasn’t trying to say it was bad. It was an example of national pride. But looking at it yeah, it does look like I ragged on them for that, so I apologize.

[@slitherken9681]

Overthrow the government 🙇‍♀️

[@Azeal]

based

[@slitherken9681]

@@Azeal thank u kind being 🙏

[@popcatgoldexperence172]

“Not a Chinese spy” would like to know your location!

[@FALLENx4NGEL]

DANCE. DANCE. REVOLUTION. REVOLUTION? OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT? *I THINK SO*

[@Fade_NB]

Hell yeah

[@voidhaseyes]

I can explain the Ma thing, its actually very common even in Hong Kong. I grew up with the internet, and learn english by literally watching ppl scream at video game. And It had almost entirely replaced my native language ANYWAY. "Ma" thing like he had explain, is someting use to emphsis the severity of the scold of the sentence. Its like a extra kick. It can be good, sacastic or even in a joke. Its a extra kick for every contxt of a sentence. "Hoyaaa" is the same thing. Please dont ask me for Chinese, I can barely speak cantonses and even having to force to learn Chinese, i still dont understand it. I am very tone deaf in just that language.

[@janberkemeier7406]

"They don't even have gendered pronouns." "Based. Sorry, continue." Love me some linguistics-based humor

[@Azeal]

x)

[@ghostdog0424]

33:35 I know my cousin taught ESL in Hokkaido with the JETT program(I think that’s how it’s spelled) and IIRC it helped pay her bills some. It could be a student thing though. Thank you so much for sharing, and I hope you stay safe.

[@oberfeldwebelhans7652]

So sad Azeal drove his car off a cliff after shooting himself twice in the chest and setting his own house on fire

[@ancdlll7466]

Thank you so much for your videos Azeal! I am so grateful to be able to hear the story and viewpoints of all of these different people. It is incredibly fascinating to me and I enjoy learning about the world this way (I can't watch the news, it physically repulses me). I'm happy you are pushing through despite the censorship you are facing with the whole US government ordeal. Again, thank you Azeal!

[@emilsipinen3019]

Just so you know, you got into my recommended tab.

[@Azeal]

hooray!!

[@chicken_poo_house5683]

Yeah, my alien friends were also denied payment from Korean hakwons (happened in 2023). Your information is accurate.

[@Oasherr]

Please stop feeding my insomnia

[@Azeal]

It's only 10:30pm here don't blame me x)

[@CherryLovesMemphis]

@@Azeal using this comment I have concluded where you live, by any chance, are you in earth right now?

[@0AstroAnimations0]

@@Azeal it’s 10:30pm where I am to!

[@Azeal]

@Cherry oh no, I've been exposed!

[@Posh_Quack]

@@Azeal oh no!!

[@TheMadmanAndre]

Pretty much everything your guest talked about was familiar to me. There's a couple of youtubers I've been subbed to for a long time, LaoWhy86 and SerpentZA, who spent years living in China. Their experiences basically mirror his.

[@ostrichlord9097]

You know its bad when the dude with the Triforce of Courage is shook.

[@EcpliseCrow]

Link must've sailed all the way from Japan to China. (If ya know, ya know)

[@Texas_Lead]

Windwaker joke?

[@avletheprotogen]

Most likely, Texas gunner

[@SoilentBeef]

When I imagine just how different China would be with the original Taiwanese government, with all its flaws, it fills me with sadness. But there is also hope, Chinese people are becoming increasingly liberal and better educated, and it is much harder to hide information now with the internet. I hope the communist party collapses under its own weight.

[@jessicalindo7977]

Hey, by the way, if this person has Chinese parents or grandparents, around the world China is apparently setting up these secret police kind of locations, that act as police outside of China, and if you say anything bad about the government outside of China, they'll commit to beating the shit out of you under the guise of a job interview or a social check-up or something, it's been happening in Europe for some 6 months now and they only do it if they see you as "Chinese", meaning if your parents or grandparents are such, they still see you as part of the Empire. Also not many people know, but in Japan the court system is even much worse than this, 99% of the time you end up in jail, it's not even worth fighting the legal fight. Another thing that's not well-explained a lot of the time is why the Chinese haven't let go of the thing with Japan, Japan never apologized for their war crimes in China, nor for invading it. They just pretended everything was okay because they lost the war. Likewise, the Chinese government has, in the last decades, emphasized Nationalistic and escalatory rethoric towards Taiwan, as a way to get people riled up and that has the consequence of also galvanizing them against Japan for obvious reasons. Also galvanizes them against "Western" countries, the Empires of old, because of the whole situation with the Opium crisis and the century of humiliation as they call it. It's much easier to control a nation when you have these kinds of petty squabbles, people you can point to outside and inside your society who are "attacking" it. Those are just my thoughts as I listened

[@urlocaldreamwriter]

he doesn't have Chinese relatives, don't worry, our family is mostly from Europe.

[@jessicalindo7977]

@@urlocaldreamwriter Good! The warning still goes out to anybody who does :)

[@deidresable]

China needed an enemy and japan is the easiest target

[@sethmachetedemeter]

Azeal out here picking the evil route after the last video. And i wholly welcome it. Keep up the awesome work, love ya videos.

[@Scorchlette]

Azeal's on a hecking villain arc, pissing off everyone.

[@TacoRenders]

I really hope this guy doesnt die of "natural causes" i like him ):

[@kyze8284]

We’re here for you Azael and interviewees! Nord is my go-to, I should (when I eventually do start uploading) and I want to showcase the different results from different countries for sure

[@osuology]

hey azeal, I've been appreciating your videos for a while and I hope you are able to continue for much longer! you deserve it, keep up the amazing work

[@dunno6161]

Jesus Christ, Azeal really is on his "Fuuuuck A A A L L L L L L y'all!" Arc I'm here for it, man! The only people you're gonna piss off are the ones fucking the average person over in the worst way. Never. Quit.

[@Mycatisinapiano]

My plushie shipped out earlier today, I'm so exited for it!

[@Techischannel]

This will sound like a strange conspiracy theory, but every time i talk shit about germany ... it feels like my internet gets slowed down for a few days. I'm sure the BND is happy to know that i, a german, dont have a all too great clean & shiny view of germany (thanks to the german education system ...). And that i am naturally critical of any nation. Thats like ... i am on so many watch lists holy fuck

[@mantech6555]

I'm glad you got recommend again, good to see you back in momentum

[@PewPewCricket]

this vid aint old enough for us to have watched it yet

[@unknown20005]

china probably wants to make this video disappear too but they can’t cause of the fundraiser

[@jasonwalters6176]

Bruh, it’s 10 pm! You’re basically telling me to be an insomniac.

[@jasonwalters6176]

Btw I’m trying to fix my sleep schedule.

[@TwoHomesTenPhones]

BING CHILLING SCORE LOWERED

[@Azeal]

DAMN

[@shadeymations9580]

Hey good news you're showing up on my recommended again!

[@Azeal]

YAY! :D

[@avletheprotogen]

You’re showing up in my recommended as well

[@PewPewCricket]

same :D

[@harishkrishnan4099]

You're finally getting recommended on my homepage now

[@spawnkeeper999]

I've known all this since the start of covid. But when covid started I was called crazy.

[@aetheralmeowstic2392]

Honestly, the fact that this person picked the Hero of Winds as their avatar

[@baeber]

I like how the toon link man is just standing there politely as the sponsorship part happens

[@somethingenglish9723]

Fascinating video, keep up the good work!

[@lordkaix4392]

Commenting because algorithm. I usually don't have the energy to watch your videos in the first hour, but I really appreciate these.

[@mamtakiewdomu]

Universal healthcare may seem great unless some clerk in a Ministry of Health office decides that treatment that you need to live won't be offered at state facilities.

[@lemonboi1609]

Less than a thousand views the algorithm is evil today

[@Azeal]

yeahhh :/

[@Halvos12]

Fun thing about the camps, Australia legit wanted them, they even started making them.

[@icyknees60]

This sounds crazy, damn though.

[@icyknees60]

This video was actually interesting, and sort of nice to hear from someone who didn't get arrested in china while there.

[@Froggard_Fazfrog]

It took me so long to realize he had full body trackers.

[@annascat123]

Dang that's so crazy but so interesting

[@adampatterson2195]

Azeal is diving headfirst into his Chaotic Good arc.

[@mattr.9167]

Wish this interview was longer.

[@ComradeCorvus]

Azeal on his "NO GODS NO MASTERS" arc, it would seem. Fuck the global superpowers!

[@Azeal]

😎

[@tenneseeangel1293]

I'm just commenting for the algorithm! Keep up the good work azeal!

[@soldierss666]

May I suggest serpentZA and his other channels to find out more about this country and actually attest what this person says

[@levihankenson3801]

Commenting for the algorithm! Great story!

[@Azeal]

thank you!

[@creekochee3592]

The Chinese government and the people who comprise it, support it, and actively work to enable it are the closest people we have to comic book/movie villains. It’s evil.

[@luizgarcia3081]

When you say "comic book/movie villains" it kind of sugarcoats it imo. They're way past that level, way worse. Their camps and their stuff could literally be compared to 40's Germany.

[@rhael42]

There's plenty of other examples that fit that description, not just China. For example, the US healthcare system exists.

[@luizgarcia3081]

@@rhael42 oh, i didn't know that the US had literal death/"re-education" camps akin to soviet Russia and ww2 Germany, if not worse.

[@creekochee3592]

@@rhael42 That’s a false equivalency. Healthcare in the US as an industry may be greedy and motivated by profit but the Chinese government has done things on such a scale and in ways that can only be seen as evil. The Cultural Revolution, denial of free speech and assembly (Tiananmen Square, etc) Uighur ethnic cleansing, and so much more.

[@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943]

​@@luizgarcia3081 A little to extreme ngl

[@DannyDoThings]

27:46 i can confirm they have a lot of emissionless bus even in small city, in mid to large city they even have buses that are 18 meters ~ 59 feet long, which is 2 car connected like a train

[@jare3459]

makes you treasure nation you live in after hearing this.

[@Happy_Potato13]

One of my teachers used to live and work in China before covid and stuff, some realities of his wife I think still live there idk. But jeez I hope it gets better there 😞

[@HeavenLeahSky]

Okey I literally had a chapter or two about menus and I'm American. I'm thankful for being taught about it even if I didn't remember about it until just now. Now they never taught me about tipping...

[@darc22005]

Dude that nerf game for learning english sounds awesome

[@JustWesley.]

azeal i love you're videos but my favorite one u made was called "He Was Trapped in Isolation for 153 Days as a Child" idk why

[@Gramfel]

Chinese english teaching is actually pretty similar to how they teach it in finland, but without the learning curve

[@xenodemon2412]

"state capitalism" is just the politically correct way of say fascism

[@younggamer7218]

It's fascism with a layer of yellow (or red) paint

[@jermasus]

23:30 that’s because Japan still denies many atrocities committed during WW2. )”(IE comfort women) Plenty of Asian countries like South Korea also hold grudges against Japan for this reason.

[@eleatreezero]

So, as an ABC (american born chinese) who is semi informed about china due to my parents being 1st generation chinese parents, i'd like to comment a few things. please keep in mind that things may become opinionated and i don't know everything, just merely my perspective and ideas of china. 1:24 From the department of state .gov: "Entry, Exit and Visa Requirements. Entry & Exit: Obtain a visa prior to arrival and have a passport with at least six months' validity remaining. The lack of either will result in a fine and immediate deportation." As for foreigner residency, I don't know the legal requirements. 2:13 I don't know the extent of how the camps worked and how bad it was, but I know that the police were VERY aggressive with people who would try to rebel and try to run. granted i doubt they were allowed to use firearms to subdue, but there is definitely video footage of mistreatment. 3:20 Was not aware of this health record requirement! wow this is new information to me. 5:08 most of my relatives reside in Shanghai, so i'm going to specify how the situation was there. there was a lot of food shortage because people kept hoarding food in fear of starvation if they couldn't go out of their apartment. it was brutal for people there. online shopping would often sell out within MINUTES if you weren't fast enough to press pay at shopping cart. my mother would often help family and friends stuck in china and try to "steal groceries" (it became such a massive thing as well, it became a semi-meme, but it was also very real and people were starving) 6:32/8:10 This is very insightful inside information for me, didn't know this stuff previously 9:05 THIS. this is literally the NUMBER ONE pro and con to the hyper-tracking they do. no privacy, but noone can get away with anything. 10:35 the government is highly restrictive and heavily monitors what kind of information can be on the public internet that is accessible (in china), and /will/ hide certain information, as said, tiananmen was the reason for restricting google. for the tiananmen square massacre, it was mainly led by students and workers to protest the government, and the military had brought out tanks to subdue their protests. many many innocent standby civilians were killed. 14:45 Elementary K-6, Middle 7-9, High 10-12, then college. Failure is never an option for chinese kids, and education is considered extremely important. it is indeed HIGHLY competitive, and as mentioned, your placement is publicly posted and seen by all of the other kids in the class. "grades" in terms of ABCs is not the grading system. it's just however many points you get out of whatever (probably 100). there is no such thing as participation points: your score is entirely dependent on 2 or 1 school tests (midterms/finals), or your placement/entrance exam. the high school entrance exams and college entrance exams are incredibly reputable, and will absolutely determine what education you will get in the future, and sometimes your ENTIRE future if you do poorly. it's why you often hear of asian parent stereotypes that force children to do all the hardest classes and do a bunch of extra-curriculars. 20:50 half true. speaking is the exact same, but writing "he/she" gendered. 他 is "he" and 她 is "she." and correct me if wrong if people know this, but i was told that the female ta was only implemented after american influences. also, the female ta is used in similar... grammar? as like, spanish. a group of females you'd call chicas, but the moment a single male is in the group, it becomes chicos. again, this only goes for writing, since the pronunciation is the exact same when speaking. 22:07 "written" is only in terms of romanization. ā á ǎ à are the 4 tones, and each combination of "consonant and vowels" may also have multiple options to choose from and have different meanings. ie chǎo can be 吵 (loud, noisy) or 炒 (to cook) 23:25 The idea that the Chinese hate the Japanese is ABSOLUTELY because of national pride. My late grandfather hated the Japanese, absolute LOATHED them. the ironic part is that his son (my uncle. my dad moved to the us) moved to japan, as well as a number of other relatives from grandma's family tree. I wasn't old enough to know him personally, but the national pride is VERY strong. also a lot of the reason why there is "china is the best" kind of propaganda-ish ideas. 23:41 Genuinely didn't know this! That's interesting 24:41 personal example, had a family friend start questioning the government's motivations like a year after COVID hit. the poor treatment, over-management, and military fear was getting worse and it was concerning. 26:11 rural areas/smaller cities very hard to live through. i'm forgetting the exact term, but i think translated they're called house nails. due to china's rapid rebuilding and making things more modern, a lot of older buildings and apartments were getting demolished, people were given a few weeks notice to move out before they tore everything down. some people stayed in their apartments and refused to move, hence being "house nails" because the people, and their living place, were nailed to the ground. 27:49 yep! they also have rentable portable charger stations in case your phone battery gets low, which is really really convenient haha. that's one of the main things i'm hoping america can implement in bigger cities. 31:11 I also want to inform: during the lockdown period, flights were often cancelled, sometimes getting cancelled for multiple days at a time to the point that some people were forced to live at the airport for quite a few days until they could get on a plane, more particularly for the big cities. final thoughts? yeah this is a pretty accurate video. as azeal said at 23:03, that's pretty much china. refute me if i mentioned anything wrong! i'm open to learning as much as i can.

[@yingchuangong5130]

He’s imagining. Chinese cop with a shining badge? I bet this guy didn’t even watch a single Chinese movie.

[@thesixthkid7689]

Good to see the Navy and the other military branches backed off, loving your channel.

[@texanrattler9061]

Man what is the deal with dictatorships anyway? Stuff’s wild.

[@Azeal]

true true

[@blakeduddles9290]

Leaving a comment for the algorithm. Doing god's work Azeal

[@dennyjin3770]

Link is 95% accurate. I’m lucky that I am in an America high school during the Covid period and I didn’t have to go through any of that. Love your interviews

[@hellfiregaming7052]

Comments for the algorithm! Also great video hoping it can take off so that you don't have to worry about your job, keep it up!

[@CarterCraigRacing]

Chinese learner here! Chinese is such an interesting language, but just wanted to make a slight clarification. Technically speaking…there are gendered pronouns in some instances. In the instance he provided, saying “he/she/they is/are good at writing” or something along those lines like that is pronounced the same way (“ta”). However in writing, there are technically gendered versions of that character (他/male or neutral, 她/female). There’s also pronouns in the sense of saying boy or girl in a noun sense (男/nan/boy, 女/nü/girl), though these are used very rarely in my experience. He is right thought that gender in terms of pronoun use comes up very little functionally! Still based language :) Hopefully this makes sense, chinese is a weird but cool language to know sometimes

[@lind_]

ah yes, bedtime, the perfect time for an azeal video drop guess ill stay up a bit 💀

[@lukeyboy1589]

8:00 wait till bro hears about no-knock warrants in the states

[@Ver_batim]

azeal on his villain arc on god

[@Azeal]

>:)

[@IrideTheProtogen]

LINKUS ON THUMBNAIL I CLICK HEHE anyways time for cool azeal video hehe

[@Azeal]

😎

[@boBsGOODdaze]

"You won't get them to read. All we want is for them to see the word and recognize it." Isn't that reading? ~boB

[@steamtrainrollon2060]

Their is this Chinese guy that bought my most favorite restaurant and all of the food was bad and the guy does not stay in America.

[@bengtal]

"Ta shuo Yinyue, shuo de hen hao!" he or she speaks English very well. Structurally, it literally mirrors over as something like "She speaks English, speaks very well!"

[@Spongebands]

Back in my school they made us use big english too i think when i was like grade 1

[@gareckthetailor9918]

think sweden was workin on rona tracking software too lol

[@ENSIBDumb]

Can't watch right now, but will comment and look forward to listening at work.