China is Doing Way Worse Than I Thought

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I honestly watch so much Chinese propaganda that sometimes I think I start to believe it. Well, in research for this video, I had a very sobering wake up call.
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[@Steamrick]

@laowhy86 why are you so certain they're accidentally sending you propaganda trip invites? As opposed to trying to lure you into the country so they can arrest you on trumped up charges?

[@leighz1962]

Any persistent food scarcity issues bottoming out? One of the biggest concerns for india/China is preventing starvation and food riots.

[@belligerentinstigator944]

I didn't know average salary in China was $9000 a year. Also, the USD is used in most transactions. Ditching the dollar is on some country's radar, but even if it is happening, it won't be for decades. Great video!

[@DJVARAO]

Happy 1M 😁

[@luluapple1067]

Did you wife leave you?

[@JessicaKeith-uj1jq]

The cost of living seems to be increasing every year, making it harder to keep up.

[@ScottLarrry]

Indeed , it's becoming quite challenging to manage expenses.

[@EricaWaters-lr6zw]

I've actually managed to stay ahead of the curve. I'm even contemplating early retirement.

[@OliverLiam-px3vx]

@@EricaWaters-lr6zw Impressive! How did you achieve that?

[@EricaWaters-lr6zw]

@@OliverLiam-px3vx Our family got introduced to a financial consultant”DESIREE RUTH HOFFMAN .” about four years before my dad retired. That was what changed things, and I think my retirement income will be on the right track, luxury cars and trips

[@WhitneyRoss-dj4rf]

Absolutely, DESIREE RUTH HOFFMAN has a knack for analyzing market trends and helping clients make informed decisions.

[@misterbig9025.]

Remember Chinese Dictator Mao? Here's what he did: - He renounced ancient chinese culture, including Confucius and Buddhism, which value kindness and tolerance. - He eliminated all intellectuals, land owners and rich and famous people. - He demanded the youths to condemn their parents and neighbors publicly, usually in front of a crowd. - What he had left were uneducated laborers, poor peasants and mean youths. *Those are the ancestors of the current mainland chinese today*

[@JohnJaneson]

Mao could not speak Mandarin.

[@gerrekurquidez3044]

Cultural revolution did kill hundreds of thousands, and traumatizing many for generations to come, but it failed to even kill the three olds it sought to destroy. So note, it was brutal and unjustified, but ultimatly failed its original purpose BIG TIME. Mao and his wife were embarrassed by it ever since(including the fact Mao never really had power in most of his "career"). He was a vile fuck up, as was his wife and their lackey. Yet he's still worshipped(something like Stockholm syndrome, but if it took fentynel and injected cocaine into itself).

[@mathieulevasseur4082]

Xi was inspired by Mao even though he is indirectly responsible for the death of his sister.

[@gerrekurquidez3044]

​@@stevenscummy1458You still can, you just have to do deep digging and traveling(as well as having the right connections and people).

[@gerrekurquidez3044]

@@mathieulevasseur4082 Xi is a joke too(just a hair more competent than Mao and his wife combined, but still an assclown). It's why I call him" Xinnie The Poo-ping".

[@spacelemur7955]

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." Abraham Lincoln

[@yayhandles]

Barely 3 days after this video was uploaded, a Japanese mother and child were stabbed at a Japanese school bus stop in China.

[@sarahchan5604]

A Chinese woman defending the Japanese was severely injured,the Japanese mother and son were lightly injured,the criminal is jobless,came from other community,not local there

[@mikes.2471]

@@jojokong3128 There's good and bad people everywhere...Lao is merely showing the worst parts of Cn, no different than other ytubers showing that their economy is doing just fine.

[@jojokong3128]

@@mikes.2471 是的。尤其是掌控世界话语权的g7主流媒体。但是我说我们都习惯这样被宣传了你相信吗？😂

[@sujiawu7364]

You mean the Japanese mother and child were saved by a Chinese woman who finally died of protecting them?😂😂 A perfect China-hate post.😂😂

[@izee6036]

You are a liar

[@BlazingShackles]

China veteran here, 2004-2014. I used to tell people how this carnival ride was not gonna last for ever. They laughed and told me I didnt understand China. Turns out I did.

[@BungleTheGooner]

2003-2018 here. Turns out you did.

[@TheGrace020]

YOU GOTTA UNDERSTAND CHINA 😼 And you did.

[@CeeTee-12345]

We could all see this was going to crash. Most country's adopting Leftist policies want to join China in the collapse. Look at the US, it's a 3rd world country now..

[@classicjonesy]

As someone from New Zealand... I think Chinese people deserve better than this, nobody deserves to live in poverty 😢

[@greenmarin3]

Yep. Left around Covid. Writing was on the wall.

[@simoncrooke1644]

There are Roman concrete and brick structures still standing after 2,000 years. Those Chinese apartments look like they'll be lucky to make it to next week.

[@jjmsf]

shein apartment

[@CaffeineGeek]

On the bright side, there will be plenty of food! Anyone have a good recipe for tofu dreg?

[@dholzric1]

@@CaffeineGeek Unfortunately, it will be cooked in sewer oil.

[@user-mc2oc6jw9q]

hahaa, so true!! "chinese knock-off"

[@javastream5015]

1/2 crap what you say! Western concrete has the same problem. The Roman concrete had some specific volcanic ash inside to make in very enduring.

[@markdignam3525]

Folks My wife's family and many of her old friends are still in China, the smarter ones left 30 or so years ago despite that period being the start of a growth period. She goes back every few years and has noted a significant change not just in economic activity, but in the mood of the people. The broad perspective is that the good days are over. They are now talking about the "good old days" which started heading south some time before Covid and was obviously exacerbated by that disease. However, it is not the case that Covid caused it - it was starting to happen well before that. Living in SE Asia, I hear every day Chinese officials whining about everyone else interfering in their activity, but they take it for granted than they can interfere with the activity of other nations, and importantly, control every situation. They do exactly the same in business transactions. Even when Chinese businesses and/or govt agencies are a minority player in any deal, they typically assume that others will simply do what they want without any negotiation or objection. When others disagree, they simply respond with anger and bullying. We have seen a return to the Mao era anti-west rhetoric and isolationist ideology BUT this time, they simply expect the rest of the world to put up with it.

[@nobillismccaw7450]

China has certainly done all it can to deter Australia from trusting China. From misreading Australia’s joviality as weakness , to breaking contracts, and imposing sanctions on Australian products over false claims of inferiority; China has given Australia incentive to trade elsewhere. Remember, Australia is the home of the literal black swans. Expect “a black swan event”.

[@agalah408]

Agreed. Other countries are looking at Australia trading with China and saying 'Why are you doing that?' The reality is that Australia knows they are sinking and is trying to sell as much of our stuff to them as possible before they actually go bust.

[@user-fo5zv4ld4z]

lol China can take down australia in a heart beat. if they decide to stop trading with australia their economy will drop by 20%. thats how important china is to australia.

[@jamesstone2808]

The US corporation has certainly done all it can to deter Australia from trusting China. If you run a business, you'll know. If you're sitting at home, never ran a business and blaming foreigners for stealing your job because you're a lazy c bomb. You have no idea. According to the US overlords, Huawei is a security threat, yet, the US overlords are happy to have their Apple's in the same basket (made in China). What hypocrisy. China's really spying on you? What could you possibly offer them? Do you compare to their academia? Does FB spy - that's OK though. They need to know how you like to drive them franchised burgers in your trap.

[@tomboushel2357]

Australia can trade with any country in the world, not just China. Let's look at coal. China's coal is totally inferior to Australia's. AU's coal has far more BTU's per ton, and creates far less air pollution per ton; thus is exportable to almost any market in the world, the same goes for most products from Australia. From your Canadian friend.

[@tomboushel2357]

@@user-fo5zv4ld4z Australia can trade with any country in the world, not just China. Lets look at coal. China's coal is totally inferior to Australia's. AU's coal has far more BTU's per ton, and creates far less air pollution per ton; thus is exportable to almost any market in the world, the same goes for most Australian products. China is famous for Tofu products like millions of your apartment buildings.

[@abcdef27669]

Three things I know about authoritarian regimes: 1-They will deny the problem to be addressed, as long as they can. 2-If they admit the problem is real, it is because they can't hide anymore. 3-Democracies can take the same action towards immediate problems.

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

So San Francisco belongs to an authoritarian regime? Human waste in the streets is not even present in poor countries like India. Or did I misread what you said? I remember Elon Musk saying "we coup whoever we want" so democracy is not spread, but authoritarianism. If you come to me saying that China is bad, at least lead by example. My childhood lacked Christmas gifts because my third world country allied of USA did not want to obey IMF with reforms that brought skinny children in Somalia. And USA imposed sanctions on my country that caused hyperinflation. No wonder why Kissinger said that being a friend of USA was fatal.

[@Kaesemesser0815]

Also: The authoritarian regime will try to turn the attention away from their failure and point out bad things that happen in democracies.

[@MK_ULTRA420]

@@josepablolunasanchez1283 You're right, your childhood needed more junk food and cheap toys that break within a week. That would have fixed your life.

[@GoatDust]

@@josepablolunasanchez1283lol your worst examples of America are results of leftist policy.

[@oliverurbanik9647]

Same as germany right now. We aren't living in a democracy scinse 1933

[@chavezchavo]

De-dollarization narrative has been spreading far and wide especially within South East Asian countries. But the biggest irony is that I have only met 1 person who actually bought RMB.

[@manofsesame3024]

Most people who believe in de-dollarization narrative would trade their USD into BTC or gold and silver. Only idiots would trade their USD to other currencies.

[@user-mq4xp1gq3q]

It's possible. The US has a corrupt half dead dementia corpse as a president that no one takes seriously on the world stage. BRICS is real, and Bitcoin would make a better world reserve currency since it can't be inflated into oblivion like the dollar is.

[@alxp-zd1zj]

Who was that? That farao Ramses II shill that they keep talking about in the China show?

[@mirceazaharia2094]

I'd sooner buy Disney stock than People's Republic of China yuan. That, at least, might eventually increase in value a bit.

[@bobjacobson858]

I bought a small amount--just to fill a slot in my coin collection.

[@theronsokol8078]

Scary... where is the world headed... dont forget guys. We are extremely lucky to be where we are. In our comfy homes watching youtube videos from laowhy. Safety and good health to all.

[@rg5312]

We won't last long though. Nobody seems to understand, appreciate, or care about the amount of sacrifice and hard work our ancestors put into reaching this point. People feel entitled to have things they can't even comprehend the complexity of, all while not contributing at all. We are putting all of our stock in AI saving us, but the truth is that AI was always meant to replace us.

[@jetd9716]

Don't feel too comfy, look at our housing prices, food prices and our govt deficit. What we are at a trillion mark now. Holy crap Mr. Biden stop spending so much on Ukraine. Won't surprise me if the banks downgrades the US govt credit score. Then we better find another place to live bcuz the fan gonna hit that roof.

[@theronsokol8078]

@rg5312 if you truly understand that there's no need for fear. It's all apart of the plan. It is sad we humans aren't more abundantly aware of how complex our existence is though. All the time and effort that's been put into the extent we have things developed. We really are on the cusp of space travel is how it seems on an evolutionary scale. But I think everyone has to become more aware of this kind of topic for us to hit spacetravel. Idk though of course who does I'm just spitballing of course.

[@jodyrbailey8462]

No you didn't. All the parts and pre assembly were done in China. Then shipped to Mexico, or Vietnam to be put in boxes with phoney "Made in ..." labels. Disprove me.

[@comradeLucienne]

yeah, my family can't even afford heat but sure, we're doing great

[@LadyBits2023]

... I actually just got back from China after spending the last six months there and I don't even have words to express what a dystopian hell scape it has become... Everyone is absolutely terrified about losing the tiny tiny, and when I say tiny, I mean, razor, thin amount of financial freedom and success that they have managed to scrape from the jaws of poverty, and everyone around them is losing their ass In the housing market collapse the jobs market has completely collapsed. Tourism is literally nonexistent street that used to be high end luxury boutiques, and it is literally just stray dogs, homeless people and grabs grab Hags

[@LadyBits2023]

... oh, and just to be clear, the reason I was in China was that I was doing humanitarian work because people there are so malnourished and have so many vitamin deficiencies that their teeth are all falling out. They have no access to dentist and we were trying to prevent fatal infections in their mouths in children. ... That's why I was in China to do outreach because it's a trash dump

[@angelachouinard4581]

Glad you got out. Literally millions cannot. At this level it's a true tragedy.

[@santisanti8386]

Where have you lived, what city?

[@WhatWillYouFind]

I live just across the border in Vietnam. The tension and uncertainty was palpable the last few years. Even now it is worrisome, but hope has regained footing as tourism and investments came back. I worry for my neighbors, as evil and vile a businessmen they are to their neighbors "I have stories from Cambodia that are gut churning" . . . no one deserves undue suffering. People just want to live.

[@eldorama]

I visited China a decade ago. It was a booming “new kid on the block.” Granted, almost every Chinese citizen I met was a government informant. But I can’t imagine how bad it’s sunk by this point.

[@conqc20]

For a country that imports most of its food, especially from the USA, you would think China would be very careful how they acted on the world stage.

[@calittlegarden-3311]

Interested, CCP thinks they can ruling the world

[@JohnJaneson]

Because they (most officials and most citizens) genuinely don't know that they import most of their food from the US. The reason is because they grow their food domestically but the large majority of their food precusors (livestock feed and fertilizers) are imported.

[@diedampfbrasse98]

the CCP isnt and wont be hungry, its the chinese people ... that difference matters. With people too scared to oppose a failing government its easy to disregard the needs of the masses. Just look to North Korea and how long that dictatorship is going, hunger/poverty among the masses isnt an obstacle for dictators.

[@fyrchmyrddin1937]

They have most of the West thoroughly "buffalo'ed" and all but own the current American President. It may be hubris, but they're pretty confident that they can prevent American "decoupling" unless Trump gets back into office (and probably even then).

[@apocain]

Isn't that normal? China exports industrial goods to the United States, and the United States exports agricultural products to China

[@kyrgyzstanification]

I lived in France, and will again soon, and I remember my French friends saying that by 2020 (this was in 2001 after 9/11), China's economy would overtake our US economy. I said, "Hey, French friends, their economy is so inextricably linked to ours that if we fail, they will fail way bigger." And if they DO overtake our economy, it'll be because we allowed them to do so. Remember, during the Korean War, when the US abandoned trucks and tanks, etc., the Chinese soldiers didn't know how to operate them! A country of peasants it was and will be until they allow a truly free market economy to be law of the land. All the gloss and sheen of modernity but lacking in the guts that hold it all together--Capitalism.

[@wynterwei9628]

People like you who posted such comments voted for the leaders of the country, so imagine what will become of the governance of this country 😅

[@karry299]

LOL, show me a nation that has a "truly free market economy". All the Western nations are extremely protectionist.

[@theterminators6512]

​@@wynterwei9628 Where are they wrong?

[@vapeurdepisse]

Everyone was saying it even in the US. Covid changed everything and it’s poetic justice when you see where it came from

[@Plan-C]

Crap leaders dont care how far their country falls as long as they can 'rule' over the rubble and filth. Kind of people that I always try to avoid in my life tbh.

[@nobiden3134]

That ping guy is pretty chubby.

[@williamearnshaw410]

Exactly.. Ergo... Turkey....

[@Of_infinite_Faith]

Iran's supreme leader and the Basin are exactly the same. They stated that before giving up their power they would turn the nation into a wasteland

[@frankgrima]

I stopped buying products made in China, it's one of the first questions I asked when buying something online.

[@JohnJaneson]

Good for you.

[@mfallen2023]

There's almost always an alternative made in India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Mexico, and sometimes even US. I obviously buy US when I can, then it's a toss-up between India and Taiwan. I like both and don't mind supporting either. Mexico's getting a little too far down the line towards extreme leftism and they keep allowing people to stream across our border so I only buy Mexico when the only other choice is Chinese. I try to find used products before buying Chinese, lol. No sense in giving your enemy money

[@apocain]

@@mfallen2023 but..India, Mexico and Indonesia have seen their annual imports from China increase significantly.

[@stevewashere4122]

my fishing rods used to be made in South Korea. Now it's China, has been for years. Fishing reels too are often from China too.

[@KevinPhillips_kw]

@@apocain No they haven't, wu mao.

[@caleb88k]

its sad, cause it doesnt have to be like this.

[@serpentinious7745]

Under communism, this is the only way it can be.

[@ravenstone366]

Yes their are better ways for all countries to be able to feed their people a new way going foward. Things need overhaul on everything, a better way for Human Species to get over this decline. It's going to take New ideas, open Discussions, out of the box thinking. So many seem stuck in that Cold War MENTALITY that they've been snuffing out Creative New Ideas, Inventions, theirs ways to get back to Taking Care of all, if them in charge could just step back and see the Whole Picture of truly what's happening World Around to Our Species!! One Species we are!!

[@AK-cr5pe]

Imagine what a powerhouse China would be if it didn't have the CCP strangehold on it. No more aggression and pissing off all of its neighbors. No indoctrinating kids from a young age that America is bad and evil. No "decoupling" and trade wars. No paying people to be "patriotic" in western countries. No police stations kidnapping people back to China. I'm hopeful the Chinese will wake up and it's unfortunate but perhaps a major economic crisis will be the catalyst.

[@Nrustica]

What? the u.s. state dept putting out these propaganda videos?

[@JohnJaneson]

I disagree. Marxism has to end like this. It is the only eventuality of Marxism.

[@SupremeGreatGrandmaster]

"Americans are NOT jumping the fence in Burma to get into China!" LOL 😄

[@matheussanthiago9685]

"I have more in common with the random Chinese citizen seeding torrents of some obscure 80's b-movie than I'll ever have with the local government"

[@P.B...]

Pork demand is a good proxy that reflects the state of the Chinese economy. And that too was much lower than usual even during the lunar new year where its usually at its highest.

[@crazydrifter13]

Can you drop some numbers?

[@CeeTee-12345]

In the US, Pork is at the bottom of the barrel in the meat category. Far cheaper than Chicken. Meanwhile in China, you're lucky to get real food. Even cooking oil is unaffordable..

[@user-fn1of2jz5c]

@@CeeTee-12345 中国猪肉比鸡肉贵

[@ivvan497]

@@CeeTee-12345 pork is great tho, especially lean cuts

[@alxp-zd1zj]

Last time I seen Chinese prices was on the china show few years ago and pork had risen to 2 dollar per kg. Here in Europe those same cuts are 2.80 dollar per kg. I saw in video noodles have risen in China to 49 c. Here they are the same. What do you mean with cheaper? Give us a price man, or a link to video with prices.

[@tktsasii]

i'm japanese. i just saw a prosperous china propaganda video on youtube. it's made by japanese-speaking chinese girls. they say their recent trip to china was wonderful and that they didn't see any economic stagnation in china 😅

[@JohnJaneson]

Do Japanese people know how PRC citizens treat Japanese? Japan should stop doing trade with China. PRC won't even let Japanese scooters in. There is no profit that PRC will allow for Japan.

[@vaeloreonari7516]

Did they say how much they got paid to say that?

[@jilbertb]

At least you realized it was propaganda! Americans see that and think it's real!

[@user-xr7ye3ri4j]

Japan needs to be more careful. The CCP’s cultural propaganda and infiltration operations are very powerful. They spend all the people’s tax dollars on these nonsense. Japan must not think about the behavior of the CCP and the Chinese people in a civilized way. No civilized country can be so naive. Taiwan bears the brunt every time, so we know very well the bad things the Chinese Communist Party is doing.

[@bernardlouis4629]

And the housing market is doing amazingly well.

[@billpetersen298]

My Chinese wife and I. We’re just visiting Montreal, and Quebec City. She marvelled at all the beautiful old stone buildings-churches, the arts, and culture. It made me mad, to think of how the communists, have gutted Chinese culture. While still doing it, in their occupied territories today.

[@MrTynanDraper]

@@HoldenHizcock-em5br You are fooled by rebuilt temples that are maybe 40 years old at most.

[@Carol-zd8sc]

Garbage man, first of all you have to know that we not only respect our civilization very much, we all respect our civilization very much, there are often rich people in the auction to buy Chinese cultural relics, and then free return to the Chinese museum, secondly, we are also happy to contribute to the civilization of others, you can read a news article, June 16, 788 precious cultural relics from Egypt have arrived in Shanghai, where they will be displayed at the Shanghai Museum's "Top of the Pyramid: Ancient Egyptian Civilization Exhibition" in July.

[@billpetersen298]

@@Carol-zd8sc Yes, embrace your culture. Sweep together the broken pieces. Be proud of your history, like Taiwan, be peaceful, be grounded again. Did Mao 2.0, just change the names of 300 towns in Xinjiang, to Chinese names? Shame on them.

[@arindamsaha735]

​@billpetersen298 shame on u stupid😅

[@QianyiLi-bi7jl]

Have you ever heard of “the Cultural Revolution”?

[@dennisweidner288]

Excellent report. One matter worth mentioning is the huge debt now owed by Chinese provincial governments. It appears to total some $10 trillion and is growing. The state governments can not even afford to maintain interest payments. So not only is the Chinese real estate market collapsing, but the bond market may be in for a huge decline this year as maturities come due. The Shangai stock market after huge declines has stabilized, but this is probably because of massive state intervention. We shall see how that works out. The Yuan exchange rate is relatively stable, but that also probably reflects state intervention.

[@edwardorgan358]

I was in grad school when the first wave of students came to the US about the time of the Tin An Min massacre. They were decent, wonderful and relatively non-political. But, they did seem to have an amazingly deep superiority complex as if they were adults visiting a land of children. Yes, they were sophisticated in some ways ... but other than technical issues they seemed to think it was offensive that we could teach them anything. Some of them cooked up all kinds of ways to game the stock market and bond investment world. Of course they lost their shirts in this. Mr. Xi Jin Ping is of this generation and he too seems incapable of learning from the West. It is not hard to imagine him being offended by our lectures on Freedom of Speech and the Free Market economics. Well, here we are ... as the saying goes ..."By their fruit ye shall know them." ... Yep, the jury is coming in: messy mass Freedom works better than top down control.

[@user-pu4us3ef5f]

It’s by their words shall we know them, just saying.😊

[@yanwu1403]

same with ussr, syria. different is china choose right way

[@davidmachemer1015]

There's also a lot of propaganda in China saying how smart Xi Jinping is. What does that tell you? The guy's an empty headed moron.

[@bobjacobson858]

I recall the first student from China at UGA. He asked a Taiwanese student "don't you want to be with us?" and the answer he received was "we don't like your system!"

[@GizzyDillespee]

The first students to come to the West were the government elite's brats... of course they felt superior to everyone. Even in the 1990s, it was only the rich kids. In the late 1980s and early 90s, I knew a few at UNC... and then towards the end of the decade, when I was out in Washington state, at the end of the school year, I used to dumpster dive where they lived. They would just throw away all of their stuff except for the very personal items (they'd buy again what they needed where they needed it). You'd find amazing stuff, but they were careless with it. The Japanese students were the best, though. They'd leave the good stuff next to the dumpster, neatly stacked. Someone had left their fish tank supplies, and had even bagged up the gravel (to male it easier in case the next person wanted to use a different color). They'd hung the oxford shirts on the lamp - they were still in the dry cleaner bag! The Chinese students didn't seem to think like that... they had a "new rich" kind of attitude in general, from what I saw. Perhaps the communist revolution really did sever their culture from its roots.

[@p.d.stanhope7088]

Agreed. Also Japan's Lost Decade, their unemployment only peaked at 5.5%. But with China, the prices for the basics that have no rhyme and reason for their price fluctuations. The social calculus used in political economies it's called Dead Weight Loss. China's Dead Weight Loss which originates solely through Beijing keep rising every single day. The imposed limitations of house holds within China are saving & paying debts all the while the "private" sector is firing employees or going bust. The ever rising of unemployment means they cannot save or pay in the future. That is the ongoing collapse of the nation's monetary policy by way of their central bank which is controlled by the Beijing govt. The solutions? Well, you have local provincial debt that is astronomical which eliminates any sound fiscal policy (govt.stimulus) during an actual recession/depression. They were doing mass public works during the "good times" as propaganda during the so-called "Miracle Economy." Since the yuan isn't part of the international exchange and its value comes solely from the Central Govt. any stimulus is meaningless during an economic depression/recession. The CCP of Beijing is propping up certain companies (BYD) and using export dumping of their products overseas which is causing nations to implement tariffs & re-shore as a response. This is a classic death spiral of a nation.

[@user-pu4us3ef5f]

Yeah I’ll go for that.

[@mirceazaharia2094]

They'll go to war soon, while they're still able to. While they still have a big enough manpower advantage. Watch out for any rumours of massive hoarding of resources, loans, building up stockpiles of weapons and military readiness drills. They'll go for Taiwan, might even drag North Korea into it, for extra manpower and firepower. It's now or never for them.

[@cutecuteoldold]

Pride comes before a downfall

[@91dgross]

ive been a subscriber since you had like 40 k subscribers. nice to see you are moving on up. keep up the good work

[@TheRazorTS]

china's country wide average wage is bellow 3k USD a year, top tier cities 20k - 22k USD, can see how unequal wealth distribution is

[@Sluchayniy]

The prices are also much lower, so it balances out no? People from top Chinese cities usually rely on that purchasing power in the discussions. Just asking

[@hello855]

@@Sluchayniy Life is still pretty unaffordable for most people in top tier cities. The ones who live comfortably are the minority, especially in the current economy where 1/3 of young people are unemployed. People without urban "hukou" status struggle a lot in the countryside. Their tiny plot of land doesn't even feed their own family. Many become migrant workers in big cities and live in deplorable conditions.

[@JCSY1]

The US people might earn more BUT they sure are much poorer as your living costs are extremely high and you get much less but pay much more for everything. It is what it is. The US and the west are surviving on using it's hegemony and double standards to intimidate and squeeze the world to fund their debts and expenses especially the US. When that stops, everything will fall down and break apart faster than ever and it is coming very soon.

[@1dameister1]

@@JCSY1 And how will China come out of all that as victorious?

[@JCSY1]

@@1dameister1 It is what it is. The truth will reveal as the day goes by.

[@michaelgothenburg364]

They are certainly doing way worse when it comes to manners of the ones I saw on my last trip to Laos earlier this year. Guests in a country and throwing garbage everywhere. Shameful behaviour

[@sallystribrny9693]

You have to remember that Mao purged educated people, traditional religion, land owners and other chinese people who would have passed on culture and manners. He left mean activists youth, peasants and laborers. Those are the people who raised mainland chinese people. It's not exactly a chinese thing so much as chinese culture being systemically purged. Many asian cultures are exquisitely polite and well mannered.

[@johnteets2921]

It makes me sick how the proponents of "our" dofuss regime flood the internet with propaganda trying to convince us that : A. other coubties are worse. B. Other countries are an immanent threat. There is no Mr. Cornpop, and the swamp does not, and never will, do anything for us. Yew tewb plez censor this. Keep Black Rock happy.

[@comradeLucienne]

@@sallystribrny9693 the racism is strong with this one

[@khukri_wielderxxx1962]

"Americans are not fleeing by the thousands to risk traveling over the border in Burma to get into China" Perfectly stated

[@ronnelacido1711]

But, but, but John Cena did migrate and said he loves China. Gavin newsome might join him later.

[@holboroman]

@@ronnelacido1711Just two dumbums not thousands or should I say tens of thousands.

[@user-mq4xp1gq3q]

Criminal aliens invading the USA and not assimilating is exactly why the US is going to collapse and the "de-dollarization" is possible. Adopt the 3rd world, become the 3rd world.

[@Ziiphyr]

@@ronnelacido1711Bing Chilling

[@wuhaninstituteofvirology]

the chinese migrants flooding into US are probably funded by CCP to infiltrate the US, why? because: -they're mostly military aged men -they're not poor -they don't travel the regular migrant route thru the dangerous parts of the darian gap, panama -they have their own transportation/camps/facilities (only for chinese people set up along the way -some of them fly straight to ecuador, then mexico, then illegally enter US border -US military bases inside US have increasingly been attacked by chinese men driving trucks into them, it's happened 1/2 a dozen times in last 6 months, but barely on the news (only on local news reports for the localities where it's happening)

[@germanBlacktiger]

Congrats! 1.000.000 Subscribers!!! I have been following your and serpentza's channels for years. Continue the good work! 😀

[@johnkruton9708]

I work for Fortune 500 manufacturing company and a coworker married a Thai woman and moved there pre pandemic. Now when the travel to Thailand to visit family they travel through Japan. No China routing for connecting flights. Our company advised us to do this because you could be detained just for being an American. Too risky.

[@dogartoppenheimer]

9k per year? How do they afford the honey tax? Winnie the Pooh needs his sweet golden drizzle....

[@michellebarnhill5130]

Xi da Pooh has 700 billion dollars. That's his fortune after killing China economy, COVID lockdowns, and their homeless people have been forced to sleep under bridges and street side.

[@user-mc2oc6jw9q]

Xi pisses on himself for the golden drizzle (remember, china fake everything, even golden drizzle)

[@RedMo46]

Sounds more like R Kelly

[@dogartoppenheimer]

@@RedMo46 hahahahaha

[@RacerX888]

that's actually a middle class salary for the cities. You can have an apartment, car and normal life with that much, but not too many luxuries. Problem is that its never going to get bigger because there are no pay raises, like many Asian countries.

[@SebastianLundh1988]

As the population of China grows older, and as more of them retire, the pressure on the younger generation will increase, and the birth rate will go down even more. Imagine you and your parents taking care of *4* grandparents. Imagine the supply of goods and services going down more and more as the country loses millions of workers to retirement every year. Imagine the decreased productivity per capita as a result of the average worker getting older and older. Who's going to repair all collapsing buildings and infrastructure when workers are too old to be maximally productive?

[@Alice_Fumo]

Sounds like the AI elder-care market is gonna be HUGE!

[@Angel-ei1ip]

@@Alice_Fumoeven AI needs maintenance.

[@Alice_Fumo]

@@Angel-ei1ip Sure, but ideally less than the elderly :)

[@mfallen2023]

And on top of that Xitler is hell-bent on getting a million+ young men killed failing to take Taiwan.

[@JohnJaneson]

Omg they were not repairing the collapsing structures *even when* they had enough young workers.

[@JustAboutTime]

As we’ve learned from Disney … things can ALWAYS get worse.

[@morriganfey6079]

No. The average household income is about 60k a year in the US. Not the average salary. There's a big difference.

[@LiveType]

PPP adjusted that 9000 rmb/month roughly matches the US average individual income. A little lower but not by a huge amount. A good chunk are earning less than that amount.

[@nobiden3134]

That's probably 2 working people in 1 household..

[@serpentinious7745]

"The problem with communism is you always run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher Edit: added origin of quote

[@Cryosxify]

They aren't even communist. The problem with the CCP is they created a society centered around being assholes and scumbags.

[@cosmancho2959]

That sounds like a ponzi scheme.

[@davepowder4020]

Except that Beijing's regime is "communist" in name only these days. It's totalitarianism while stealing a name that, on the surface, would be trying to provide essential means for the people. The CCP is certainly NOT trying to provide any essential means for the population. It's like in Russia. The unfortunate nation found the ONE way to be worse than the USSR, and the provider of that one worse government way, is trying to force that back on Ukraine and the rest of Eastern Europe.

[@D.von.N]

China is communist only on the paper. People have to pay for their healthcare. Their properties cost their own money. You don't really have money in communism, neither private property, neither social classes. Communism was actually never really implemented on the national scale. It was always some form of totalitarianism, with one unchallenged ruler surrounded by yes people who benefited from their position incredibly, and the majority plebs. Almost like in the capitalism today, with middle class disappearing, the number of billionaires growing and hardly to find someone who doesn't have some form of debt.

[@joedirt7553]

@@D.von.NChina was a communist country in the 1980’s. In the 1990’s they went on the other side of Marxism. They are a fascist state now.

[@vt2851]

I was in China for few weeks recently from 5/2024 to 6 /2024 . And base in Shanghai. I can't believe Shanghai is going down .shopping mall, no peoples .more salesman than coustmer. Shops are close . Most malls have no people's Outside Shanghai at the tourist sport have only few people's..its scary ...just woder so call 14 B population...what happen to all this people's? Some areas building are totally empty town . Can't see any faces from the European or American . In Shanghai, we see many properties agency handing area the high-end property area ask it we are interested to buy .. .It's sad .

[@user-qr6me9hk6y]

What part of Shanghai were you in? I was there a month ago and it was thriving, I saw one shopping mall with not many people but Nanjing square is constantly busy. Also I saw plenty of Europeans, mainly from Italy.

[@user-us6pu4zr2m]

他是美国宣传的机器人😂

[@c1d2e]

@@user-us6pu4zr2m Doubt it, he can barely write in English, maybe from somewhere else.

[@cloudwithwind574]

You can only deceive fools with such lies!

[@user-ui2ox4ux3z]

I think this presentater is the mouth piece of US propaganda. Shame on you for such deliberate smearing of China. Remember China growth last year is twice as that of the US. Make a report on the homeless of Los Angeles and Sanfrancisco rather. Shame on you .

[@Feralzen]

China's a textbook example why you don't want autocracy running things in your country.

[@waynejmcgregor2106]

Congratulations on your 1 million subscribers You're about to get

[@Billilv]

With more and more unhappy young man, they do need something to blame.

[@blafonovision4342]

But the CCP says the standard of living in the PRC is just as good as the standard of living in the USA!

[@mgray999]

Seems like it is from these clips

[@ArariaKAgelessTraveller]

What standard living? Detroit?

[@user-qr6me9hk6y]

No it’s much better

[@SmokestackOG]

​@ArariaKAgelessTraveller even thats better than china's best.

[@blafonovision4342]

@@ArariaKAgelessTraveller Interesting how the PRC doesn’t allow journalists to film outside the tier cities. I wonder why?

[@rpoutine3271]

So much concrete wasted in the property bubble, it hurts to watch.

[@morstyrannis1951]

If you look closely you’ll see they used far too little concrete!

[@mfallen2023]

It seems to just be river sand for the most part. I don't think they're adding anywhere near enough lime and aggregate. Still, a waste of sand...

[@rpoutine3271]

@@mfallen2023 Perhaps, I am not knowledgeable about that. As far as I am awared of norms there is supposed to be a good deal of concrete.

[@comradeLucienne]

are you fucking mental? you see them building houses and go "oh that's horrible". ask any western young person and they will beg the western governments to build houses at even one-eighth the speed that china is.

[@erkhardtify]

Idk if this is appropriate here but ive been subbed for some time now. Congrats on the 1mil brother! I just got back from China visiting inlaws, wife and kids return on the 27th. The shopping malls there we went were EMPTY. people simply were not shopping around. Maybe temu idk.

[@Mattlu199]

Everything is actually very cheap in china

[@joistein]

I was surprised that Tesla invested som much in China, that is a gigantic risk.

[@cathjj840]

Widdle Elon isn't as smart as he makes out.

[@JohnJaneson]

Elon Musk will regret his China involvement.

[@blueyhis.zarsoff1147]

It was a clever move as I believe it was locally financed and he could export to the rest of the world. Possibly the only foreign company that got money out of China?

[@joistein]

@@blueyhis.zarsoff1147 and they could copy the tec in Tesla cars.

[@tjjohnson-oj9or]

@@cathjj840 Another statement by an economic genius. How much do you make a year with that liberal arts degree you probably have?

[@yuricopperhooves]

Yep, they got into the "find out" phase.

[@victorsantiago886]

Usa should have taken care of mexico, latin america and south america in the very first place. Would have solved drug and immigration problems too. Now us companies are discovering mexico. Good thing.

[@navidpey194]

When I started teaching in 2011, my salary was 7k and was more than enough, most recent job in 2018 i was getting 15k and I was barely getting by. Imagine inflation after COVID! It has to be super tough!

[@diegoyanesholtz212]

From someone from Brazil, and have a stagnant economy since the 1980s, I know how brutal the middle income trap can be and very few countries managed to escape it, countries like Taiwan, South Korea and some post communist eastern European countries where able to escape the middle income trap, but the country stays middle income, have low growth and cannot compete with low income countries and their cheap labor and can't compete with high income countries and their technological expertise. The country never developed from that point of middle income.

[@TaintedStaff]

The great famine is coming...

[@Anomoomin]

Here and there, yet ultimately it is coming to the whole world. God has had enough of our sinning and bowls are full.. like the Bible said that the Euphrates river will dry up and good is being called evil and evil good, we are living those days as we speak!

[@ajm2360]

More like the great famine part 2, housing bubble boogaloo

[@DEEYANASE]

Recently I saw a video that shows a little cute girl was working in a field with an infant on her back. The girl was smiling at the camera. That made me so sad 🥲 and at the same time it made me angry 😡 with CCP.

[@user-yg5im8nr3x]

I live in Europe and everybody is fond with America but we'll all still have America as a big brother than a Chinese or Russian... Freedom is the highest good you can get.

[@comradeLucienne]

you should look into the snowden and assange leaks, they didn't just apply to america

[@rumrunner8019]

I have a neighbor who is from China, but left with his parents when he was a kid. He visited last year and he is now convinced that the CCP will collapse within our lifetime. People, even in China, can only be pushed so far. That, and even the PLA is broke, hungry, and angry.

[@joannlarson6386]

Heard the youth say they would not have children to be slaves. So they have a major population lose.

[@inhodel]

Do you even know what you are saying? He is not in the country all his life and just with a short visit he can conclude that the CCP will collapse? It's like a tourist visiting Russia and says "Yeap, Putin reign will soon be over" LOL, makes no sense dude.

[@bernardlouis4629]

Your neighbour is most likely right.

[@rumrunner8019]

@@inhodel +10,000 to you social credit score And he has family still there and speaks the language and has been there multiple times. He would know.

[@inhodel]

@@rumrunner8019 the social credit score joke is running old. I am not even a mainland Chinese citizen, but still i am more capable of judging the country than most people here.

[@adamwee382]

This is actually worrisome. The CCP being an authoritarian dictatorship needs to maintain control at all costs. If civil unrest means going to war with Taiwan, they might be desperate enough to try it. Thats not going to end well, China can't afford to lose Military aged people. Even in the likely event that China's military underperforms, its still going to be a massive humanitarian crisis when 1.4 billion people begin to starve. I really hope that they're not that foolish to actually go through with it, but I never expected Russia to actually invade Ukraine either. So what do I know.

[@hello855]

Considering that Russia and Ukraine are in constant stalemate, China isn't too discouraged.

[@PandaPanda-ud4ne]

@@hello855 Its not a real constant stalemate. The situation is rather fluid.

[@billpetersen298]

I think the main strategy, is political, elite capture, and lots of noise.

[@luxeadawnlight5745]

War has always been the dumbest diplomacy tool, but to use it as an anti-rebellion tool, I can't imagine what their population will look like afterwards...

[@johnteets2921]

@@hello855 It is not a stalemate. Ukraine is dead, it just won't fall down.

[@cutecuteoldold]

I pity the people for having such a louse of a government They need an honest man at the helm

[@jiminverness]

They're too interested in trying to convince you everything is ok, but not the slightest bit interested in actually making things ok.

[@user-mq4xp1gq3q]

Sounds like the behavior of most US politicians

[@halhortonsworld5870]

My fiancé is Chinese. She wants us to travel to China to visit her family. I am terrified. I used to live in Taiwan, so I am fine with getting along in a foreign land, but TBH, I am far more afraid of traveling to China than I was when I went to Afghanistan.

[@pablosskates7067]

The chances of you getting hurt are slim. It would be more passive aggressive shit and excessive government checking and so forth. So while I don’t think you’ll get hurt, expect a pretty shitty time.

[@dolomaticus1180]

Though if you know what is going on, I think going at this time is asking for a roll of the dice.

[@WhatWillYouFind]

Any chinese person who decides to go to china is risking the most likely outcome of their passport being permanently revoked and them never being allowed to legally leave the country again. This is the worst time to go back. I would be too, my wife is Viet and she was allowed to leave for christmas but I know it would've been denied had she been a few KM farther on the map.

[@kevinbyrne4538]

You and your wife arrive in China. 3 days later, some idiot in the Chinese navy opens fire on a Philippine naval vessel in the Spratly Islands; World War 3 erupts -- and you and your wife are trapped in China for the duration of the war. And of course you are confined in a prison camp as a foreign spy.

[@serpentinious7745]

Beware the gutter oil

[@cherubin7th]

China is like a scammer who mocked you before you sent the money and then wonders why you didn't send the money.

[@Zappy9518]

More like Western industries shipped out to China, made China what it is today all in the name of profit. They are laughing at us, and they are still raking in the money. Supporting wars in Europe, the extreme duplicity in how they dealt with covid. Flooding the West with fentanyl. Thank Western aggressive capitalism. Thank the Western Super Rich.

[@xprience123]

how so

[@user-fo5zv4ld4z]

thats the US

[@mavischeong2596]

The moral of this message is people who always full of themselves are always fools

[@Queltamas]

I like how Japan is the complete opposite and are very open in discussing their problems since Covid and otherwise extremely slow economic recovery.

[@comradeLucienne]

after 30 years of low growth, stagnation and now a demographic crisis they don't bother trying to hide it

[@karry299]

You have to be the opposite when your nation is occupied by the foreign military. No choice but to do what your masters say.

[@xevilman1]

C-milk to 1M!

[@Steamrick]

@laowhy86 why are you so certain they're accidentally sending you propaganda trip invites? As opposed to trying to lure you into the country so they can arrest you on trumped up charges?

[@JohnJaneson]

I thought so too 😅

[@dead-claudia]

i can see both sides being realistic tbh on one hand high-level officials would almost certainly love to silence him permanently, but i also wouldn't put it past a low-level ccp agent to be dumb and lazy enough to just see him on a list of people with "china" in their video titles, search internal databases for his email, and reach out to him that way. keep in mind, the shortcut culture in china is the strongest inside the ccp.

[@alanliuc]

Foolish Westerners are making up stories to amuse themselves. Smart Westerners are already looking for a new life in China

[@JustinLewis7326]

Congrats on the 1M. I subbed last night.

[@chhayly7443]

Base on what you said. American should not need to worry about China. Do not sanction on China. And if China only make cheap stuff it mean you use cheap stuff. Inside your house 80%of stuff is made in China.

[@CM-ey7nq]

Whenever I try to share one of your videos to FB I always get the pushback: Yeah, well, Europe and the US are collapsing too! It's not even comparable. This is truly scary, I don't want any economy to collapse, for the good of all of us.

[@mfallen2023]

US and Europe are in recessions which can be managed. No one in the world is doing great at the moment, but the US and Europe aren't doing poorly. They're just not as good as they were 5 years ago.

[@NM-qd3tm]

@@mfallen2023 Exactly. ...and five years ago the whole world hadn't shut down yet and every government didn't start printing endless currency.

[@brunoqnzbk7891]

Funny how the entire world is trying to get into the USA and Europe. China? Not so much.

[@kkpenney444]

@@mfallen2023 The US is not in recession. Economy's fairly booming.

[@Rill_1]

​@@kkpenney444 US economy is in a managed decline, with inflation strangling the life out of the population until there's nothing left to collapse when the fiat goes bust. The actual underlying economy is very strong though, the dollar is just a yoke at this point.

[@lorisullivan327]

So sad… isn’t that what happens when you give so much control to a government?

[@JohnJaneson]

Marxism

[@fyrchmyrddin1937]

Why else do you imagine both American & European oligarchs insist the West needs to be more like China?

[@Cryosxify]

It's when you allow sociopaths to run a country instead of removing them. Same applies to the US, if you allow the Republicans or maga control the system starts collapsing. If they had removed the sociopaths you wouldn't have all this anti US, anti Japan, invade Taiwan anti social propaganda. You wouldn't have an annexed Tibetan, enslaved uighurs, or a hong kong that's lost itself. You'd have chill country like Taiwan

[@cathjj840]

Do you think that control was actually "given", or rather taken by force? Force that has only increased with the regime's entrenchment.

[@matthewmosier8439]

It is the inevitable result of far-left government philosophy

[@deepalall647]

No wonder they are frustrated and attacking other nations in Asia.

[@fedsaitam5755]

Why this rich country china cant do an evacuation on there people in a desaster time, you cant even see govt officials helping their people, unlike the Philippines the President itself is roaming around in time of calamity and distributing goods emergency kits foods and temp shelters for the affected by the disastered people and country men

[@themacker894]

How can China think of invading Taiwan if they need the US to buy their stuff. Wouldn't that be the first thing (trade) that would stop?

[@JohnJaneson]

Yes. That's why Xi told Ursula few days ago that Taiwan was an American bait. Xi finally realizes there is no way to win or survive the invasion.

[@Unpopular_0pinion]

It's a mutually assured economic dumpster fire. But tmif their goal is global domination they might see war as a switch worth flicking. If they invade and sanctions are laid, it will hurt our stock market and our cost of living crisis would get worse. Meanwhile they've been hoarding grain and other supplies while building their energy independence. I'm not saying they won't also suffer, I did say "mutual" dumpster fire.. The leadership will likely partner with Russia, Iran, and N.Korea to have as good a life as they can given the ostracization that will occur. It would be bad for the common folk, but it's already bad for the common folk. I simply do not think the leadership cares.

[@matthewmosier8439]

Starting to think they hope to swap countries now that they turned theirs into such an awful place

[@MnemonicHack]

The USA can last longer without Chinese goods, than China can last without the US market.

[@tardigrade9493]

😂

[@ForcefighterX2]

No China's real problem can be proven easily: Economically speaking "profit" is the effect of spending less than you get for your work. Thus, a corporation needs to be able to pay someone little money in order to produce something, which they then can sell expensively. China's problem now is, that they need a group of people which can produce cheaply (i.e. with a fixed low income) for selling with high profits. However, since the selling-prices are fixed by the customers (e.g. USA, Europe), they cannot simply increase their sales-prices, and thus cannot increase the salaries of their (Chinese) workers. THUS, China is stuck. Another option to solve this issue, is to sell something no one else CAN produce (due to lack of knowledge). This is essentially the same method as above, because here the "production cost reduction" happens by omitting the need to research something, which your competitor still does not know how to do. USA can sell high-tech, which China "could" sell cheaper, only AFTER they have completely researched up to USA's level. Which is SO expensive, that China simply cannot do it. Thus, USA is actually selling an "expensive" product for a price no one else can match, due to the R&D (research and development) costs. But, as I stated above, China does not use "knowledge" as the business case, but only cheap labor instead. And this will lead do fixed incomes, as China cannot raise their sales-prices indefinitely. AND they cannot produce in some cheaper country, because they are already the cheapest country for mass-production.

[@edgeldine3499]

they are only the cheapest because of the sunk cost of the infrastructure.

[@nobillismccaw7450]

Australia basically does the “something no-one else can do” for the same price with its minerals (e.g. titanium).

[@toriblue]

China is no longer the cheap option for labor. Due to the aging population, their labor costs have risen extremely fast. Most countries have already started moving production away from China but it takes years to re-build manufacturing chains. China is screwed no matter what they do.

[@PracticaProphetica]

@@toriblue I'll believe that when I stop seeing "made in China" on just about everything we buy here.

[@sampletaster5093]

I have a friend in china and I cannot convience her that the economy is in trouble. Her business is half the size. She can’t sell her house because the price keeps dropping. She refuses to see what’s in front of her.

[@comradeLucienne]

maybe she would know since she lives in china and you're watching a yankee geezer on youtube who doesn't?

[@TheBigWinsEpisodes]

I just subscribed for you three times. Good luck buddy!

[@dj_paultuk7052]

Also to add that many big global companies that rely on Manufacturing are pulling out of China and more often that not bringing Manufacture back to their homeland. I went to an Expo in London back in Feb and one of the key things was "Setting up Manufacturing processes within the UK", particularly Electronics.

[@scottbattaglia8595]

Could you imagine if the global trade currency was the yuan, controlled by the CCP. I honestly think global trade would almost collapse and I wouldn't be shocked if people resorted to paying for stuff in precious metals instead of the yuan...

[@still_e3]

The literal sense of the word "red flag"

[@tomdebevoise]

At some level the leadership in China must be desperate. They are essentially the most omega country among the "superpowers." Since 2004, China has been a net importer of agricultural products and is the world's largest food importer. Its food imports increased from $14 billion in 2003 to $104.6 billion in 2017 and are projected to reach $140 billion in 2023. China imports more soybeans, corn, wheat, rice, and dairy products than any other country, along with edible oils, sugar, meat, and processed foods due to evolving dietary habits. So if they invade Taiwan or take any action that causes the type of sanctions that Russia is enduring they will experience famine in just a few short months. In addition, despite stealing intellectual property, they are basically unable to capitalize on it. They are cut off from the chips that are needed to build the LLMS like ChatGPD. The company was put on a U.S. trade blacklist called the Entity List in 2020, which has cut SMIC off from key foreign technology that would allow it to make more advanced chips. Like Russia, China has always been dependent on western investment to provide the most advanced technology and the decoupling mentioned here has all but eliminated the flow of that investment.

[@robustdelirium9277]

Why are they so xenophobic if they’re economy is so heavily reliant on outside investments? Thats beyond strange to me.

[@jetd9716]

Not anymore. Not since Trump said enough is enough and started this import taxation war. They could never deliver their promises of even up theur trade deficit with us. All their will to buy was more corn and wheat while forcing our companies who do business their to give up all their products designed and IP rights so they can make it themselves. Just theives.. Niw they are force to catch up and make their own goods. No more freebies buster!! 😂

[@istvankovacs4154]

11:15 "I've fallen, and I can't get up!"

[@justinkrah]

Almost to that 1 Million Subs! lets gooooo!

[@cloudwithwind574]

You can only deceive fools with such lies!

[@sebholding]

Those headlines describe an improvement of the situation in specific areas, it doesn't mean the overall situation is currenctly good. Great point about immigration though.

[@pacershark452]

Well......if nothing else, it'll make an AWESOME dystopia.

[@michellewilliams9772]

Congrats on 1 mil subs! 🎉

[@Kanoly]

Gratz on 1 mil subs!

[@farmthestars3962]

For anyone suffering , i hope you find peace. For anyone in pain, i hope you find relief. Life is hard. Try to find the beauty. I am poor with you, i am suffering with you, i am in pain like you, i will never give up, For my loved ones.

[@pepepantuflas1]

Almost to a million

[@lostinseganet]

@11:22 ohhh so close to that play button. You do a good job. I'll make my contribution. I subbed.

[@destroyer-im7qe]

China cannot break from America !!

[@user-qe3zj5jc3o]

That is so true -"they make stuff people don't need". I see it on Lazada here in Thailand. So much junk that you don't need they try to sell. And some of it costs 30 cents... Some good stuff also of course but yes much stuff you don't need.

[@AnAngelineer]

Recently, a coworker was suggesting me to engage a process to get closer to the Chinese branch of the business in order to eventually work over there, just as he is aiming himself. He still had the rosy image of an "Eldorado China", the kind most people had before the big floods and the Covid that eventually broke the illusion of prosperity. Watching those videos contributed a lot in making me decline. And I think this coworker is in for a surprise when he'll have reached the position and actually be moved over there. I care about China because I know what happens there has big implications for the world. ...But living there after 2010? Nope. Never.

[@user-us6pu4zr2m]

这是一个机会，我觉得你自己去看看会比虚假媒体好的多😂

[@KonjikiNoYami666]

Congratz to ur 1 milion🎉 im glad ur here

[@yuang6936]

Welcome to San Francisco and Oakland CA

[@jsimone1320]

What a shame in a few years this world is going to look so bad 🤦‍♂️

[@Oaknes]

You should have tried human fetus soup, dog's hot pot, bat's dishes

[@Christinebanks11]

When the roman empire fell , Europe was in the middle class trap. it lasted for 1,000 years !

[@thehappywanker4298]

That was pre industrial revolution 😂

[@cfair009]

"You gota understand China"

[@RodrigoPalma700]

Poor people... Thanks for sharing.

[@Saul-wo4qf]

I hope some Chinese women come to America. Hell yeah!

[@mrgoober6320]

At a very fundamental level, if your society cannot build structurally sound homes and offices then it is a failure, even if other metrics look promising.