China is Trying To "Starve the World"

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[@ruvaneh.friebus9571]

Why can't we say anything about Russia killing farmers in Ukraine? Literally seen drones dropping small bombs or directing artillery ontop of Russian paratroopers

[@pingpong7810]

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[@RISINGDRAGON557]

Lots consequences world wide cuz of the way CHINA treats the world

[@flynick]

Passing Chinese van drivers on the inside? We're lucky that you're still with us

[@countmorbid3187]

@@flynick Seen some Chinese dash cam vids ... those mofo's can't drive for shit!

[@LyndseyMacPherson]

Ridiculous that they apparently don't know how to store grain. Grain should never rot. It's a dry good, a seed. So they must be storing it in very poor conditions if it's rotting, and that, just like all food waste, makes me angry.

[@Blissblizzard]

They buy the whole of the Madagascar vanilla crop, and vacuum pack it without sun drying it 1st! Eat it any way, full of rot.

[@h.a.9880]

We all know how shoddy they make their houses. I bet water seeps in, contaminates the whole silo with some nasty heavy metals while doing so, and causes rot and decay.

[@cesariojpn]

Another channel says that when theirs an audit, those grain silos "mysteriously self-ignites."

[@thefeatheredfrontiersman8135]

Have you ever smelled a silo of rotten grain? It's the worst stench, worse than a dead body. You can smell it miles away. I had to clear one out in Idaho after the last major flood. People were canoeing in the local sporting goods parking lot.

[@jackjones7062]

@@Blissblizzard wow is this true?! How do you know this?

[@leonalchemist]

I think understanding where China stands isn't necessarily that difficult, majority of the time if China claims one things, it probably means it's the exact opposite.

[@huluqi3972]

In this video, the statement in the beginning of the video is not right though. China's landscape is not like US, it's small mountains everywhere, people's homes/houses everywhere. Heavy machines/heavy chemical(herbcide/pesticide/fertilizer) farming is not great at this point when considering the damage it does to the soil and the product and the social environment and people's living environment. Just see how many people got cancer in the US over the decades. There are documentaries about this too on this site. And most people are doing cheap labour jobs instead of farming, because it just earns more doing cheap labour jobs than farming, that's why you see part of the land is full of grass, just like US land holders. See? China is also not stupid. Money rules all the planet, not just US.

[@huluqi3972]

And yeah, people everywhere use chemicals, a lot species have already been killed over the decades, the creatures in the fields are already 1/5-1/20 of what it was decades ago, either eaten or killed by people/pestcides. People in China are also starting to feel the pandemic of cancer.

[@huluqi3972]

And, yeah, sure construction has taken a lot of farmland in China, all the buildings/cities you see today were once farm land.Just like everywhere else in the world. Every other country holds, we, I mean people on the planet, have all the holders in the world. Some People holds nuclear bombs,some even holds meat/fats into their body. All the other countries are richer than China by rescourse/person and the richness of the rescourses. Have you thought about donating something that's useful or ateble?

[@huluqi3972]

And yeah, that's how stock market works everywhere else in the world too. It's a global market after all.Shanghai is the stock market trade center in China, it has all the money in China, they are too rich to not use their money to buy stuff, they are money holders, trying to get more money out of the stock market/capital city/people's cheap labour, and that's just the karma they are buying.

[@martiddy]

@@huluqi3972 China also use herbicide and pesticides just as much as the US. What's your point?

[@anomuumit]

I remember you guys talking about China buying up grain in bulk before the war in Ukraine. Some have even speculated that the Russian invasion was postponed for the winter Olympics. If you add those two together you'll easily get the idea that: 1. China knew about the Russian attack plans 2. China was preparing itself for the loss of Ukrainian grain on the world market. Everything might have been just a coincidence with the level of financial schemes going on in China but the circumstances don't look favourable.

[@Pernection]

Why do so.many countries depend on Ukraine for grain? How does that affect big farmers like USA?

[@AckzaTV]

EVERYONE knew about Russias plans, Ukraine was attacking Russians for years. Russia had to put their troops on the border

[@stevemcgowen]

@@Pernection Ukraine has really good soil and climate for growing grain. Most of the world doesn’t… Not sure how US farmers would be affected, other than getting more $ for grain exports…

[@yarpenzigrin1893]

@@stevemcgowen That's not entirely true. Central Africa has been the world's breadbasket in the colonial era. Kongo and nearby regions could supply the whole Africa with food but the corruption and civil wars destroyed everything.

[@stevemcgowen]

@@yarpenzigrin1893 Colonialism has been replaced with dictatorships, who support other dictatorships. Let them starve...

[@TexanMiror2]

In addition to the crazy amount of building materials that had to be mined and refined and built - for nothing -, China is also producing all these useless cheap electronic and tool products that easily break and are designed to be thrown away after only short use. Products so sub-standard, many of them would be illegal to produce or sell in most Western nations - but nobody seems to care, mainly because its impossible to check all the imports coming from China on quality and safety issues. So much inefficiency with our limited resources on planet Earth. Then, in regards to the food issue, not only does China not act responsibly with their resources, and siphons off much-needed food products from everywhere else, they also over-fish the oceans, often illegally in foreign waters without permission.

[@smitmiras]

Nobody cares because everyone i Know in the West wants to order on Shein and Wish :( we also have a part to play in this

[@calitaliarepublic6753]

Westerners: China, make us cheap stuff. Chinese: Okay, but it’ll hurt the environment. It did in your countries… Westerners: No problem, we’ll feign shock and blame it all on you. Chinese: Wait wtf?

[@eamonnmckeown6770]

Paul Pelosi got rich off us buying crap from China just so he could get drunk and crash his Porsche into a bipoc ally. lol.

[@AckzaTV]

Yeah china manufactures TRASH that America just dumps into the ocean. Save us all time by just dumping that shit directly into the pacific ocean FROm china lol

[@AckzaTV]

oh they could easily block all the chinese imports, they have a big border crossinga nd check for drugs when they want they can checkf or low quality crap, if we were at war a real war, theyd check. during ww2 we didnt have japanese crap being imported in lol there is a way

[@dl8270]

Cleaning white dust everyday in our apartment in china. Breathing white dust, we wore pollution mask, but that didn’t help. Those cement trucks so noisy, dirty...

[@mattsmith1137]

Apparently they have improperly stored the wheat they hoarded over the last two years allowing it to go rancid. Great job guys ! 👍

[@AckzaTV]

what do you expect lol. when they try to send moldy rotten grain to poor countries they will revolt and hate china forever lol reputation credits EXHAUSTED

[@meganlukes6679]

Policy-induced famines are a specialty of communist governments.

[@ericcloud1023]

Incorrect, the peopley's grain has ripened, not spoiled just as there will be a huge Nationwide diet implemented and not a famine. /S lol this is exactly the kind of treacherous wording that the CCP puts out every day

[@sandwind123456789]

Under normal conditions, wheat with water content within the standard (12.5%) can be stored at room temperature for 3 to 5 years or at low temperature (15 ℃) for 5 to 8 years.

[@martiddy]

@@sandwind123456789 That assuming that all the granaries in China are in good condition, which I highly doubt so.

[@jasonguest5820]

The grain speculation sounds a lot like Gogol's "Dead Souls" where land owners payed taxes on each slave, and the government rarely ran census to count them all, so land owners often payed taxes on deceased slaves. The book's main character tries to buy these 'dead souls' so on paper he would have a large estate for use in future scams.

[@henrychen8755]

Just adding to your point of how environmentally damaging concrete is outside of the material mining. The actual production releases a huge amount of C02 due to the high heat needed to make concrete. The production of concrete is one of the largest producers of greenhouse gases worldwide.

[@tshavfengvang7831]

That's a good point to make b/c China is a civilization in between becoming a modernization and third world country, in between wealth and poverty, and in between wonders and waste.

[@OPrincessXJasmineO]

Yeah but it's very cheap, easily accessable and most developing countries will use this for their home. Concrete homes are more reliable than other building materials.

[@tshavfengvang7831]

@@OPrincessXJasmineO Reliable? These concrete homes are in ghost towns all over China, and in rundown conditions with no plans for maintenance.

[@RichardHowells1234]

Suggest Sand Wars docu 🤯Sand smuggling 3rd largest industry in world

[@simonm519]

CO2 is good, we produce it with our every breath. Stop the hysteria.

[@amberkat8147]

Holy cow. I thought China was smart about it's foreign economic policy, but this sort of wasteful building and destroying farmland is suicidal.

[@Bullshit1011]

What terrifies me is when they screw up their food production will they launch a massive military campaign to invade and steal from countries around them, they had a huge military build up the last few decades

[@Mac_Omegaly]

Some of the highest quality soil in NJ is currently getting destroyed by urban expantion*, and junk** Solar farms. (This is south jersey btw) *(the urban expansion is even worse when you consider the land deals are made before auction on 30 year preserved land plots. A big thing people thought was a good idea when their farms and forest lands started becoming over taxed in the mid 70's to 90's. And the land is some of the best in the state. Now this best soil is just used for mostly upper middle class lawns.) **(the local government were basically ripped off on these solar farms, as they technically produced the energy rates promised at first... But after 10 years the upkeep, required and slow decline of functions is not at all worth the intinal cost of investment into fake green energy. If everything worked as advertised they might break even in 15 more years, but the truth is that they have to spend ×3 the original planned investment to make the original goal. And in the mean time, so many good fields are being damaged by defected rain erosion, but at least some of that can be recovered. In 20-30 years, if the land isn't resold for housing.)

[@patriciapalmer1377]

No one has the nitty gritty, driving the topography, meeting the people of all of China like these men. Their insight is invaluable and I thank them for all of their time and effort.

[@777rogerf]

Food is generally an afterthought in "development" planning in most countries, whereas farming, including family farming, should be the foundation.

[@masksarelies391]

Could they be behind the destruction of food plants across the US? FBI have now warned of cyber attacks on top of the physical incidents.

[@deniseproxima2601]

Till the food run out.

[@disgruntledtoons]

Well, having kids is the foundation of growth. China's screwed the pooch on that one, too.

[@deniseproxima2601]

@@disgruntledtoons You can force your own kids to the treat mile.

[@mrniceguy7168]

Seeing small scale farmers doing physical labor in China is rare footage! The Chinese let people record North Koreans using oxes but you won’t find that footage inside China

[@ryurazu]

It's not some thing they are trying to hide, just saying however it's very hard work and so you mostly only see old people now days working the land. That's something Chinese government want to hide.

[@blokin5039]

China is winning while you are 😭😭😭🤣🖕🖕

[@kristina_C13]

Also the fact that removing the sand from lakes ends up draining out the water.

[@atranimecs]

you mean clay**?

[@raphofthehills4405]

It would be great if you guys could comment on the controversies around the UN's 1st visit recently to China in 17 years. It also happened while police servers in Xinjiang were hacked, releasing tons of documents on governement policies / treatment of Uighurs. Pointer exemples: tiltles from the washington post "U.N. human rights chief disappoints Uyghur advocates on visit to China", "Trove of damning Xinjiang police files leaked as U.N. rights chief visits China"

[@Ava-km7tl]

^^^

[@venus_envy]

UN is crap. It supports the idea that men can be women simply by saying so, dehumanizing women, sterilizing kids, and ignores Uyghurs.

[@summerain6918]

I have a question, why do westerners think that people with different religious beliefs must be against each other?

[@Ava-km7tl]

@@summerain6918 cause they’re genociding Uighurs

[@Fr.VeniceLAI]

Indeed, China is an enigma to most ordinary people not too familiar with the country, and you Guys are helping and doing a fantastic job, to debunk what is really happening inside the Middle-Kingdom.

[@namenameson9065]

@Ben Avery Having a crazy government trickles down into the general population as we've seen with Leftist governments making everyone nuts in the west. Koo-koo!

[@neighborhoodcatlady6094]

Love your videos

[@TimeTraveller010]

@Ben Avery > < if you haven't been there it's weird to the outsider. I have lived there, people are people, there's nothing strange of the Chinese. The only thing ridiculous but not strange of the Chinese is they believe everything they a told by the communist goofs. That freedom of information is blocked adds to their ignorance, not weirdness. The Chinese are not weird they are ignorant, highly ignorant and under educated of the real world. They are 'China-centric'.

[@blokin5039]

China is winning while you are 😭😭😭🤣🖕🖕

[@justinemot2282]

It's similar to the soviet enigma! So enigmatic on the outside & a hierarchy or corrupt self-important idiots who do stupid or evil stuff, then deny & try to hide it. Very enigmatic indeed! & it would be laughable if it wasnt so sad

[@Bran08Eman]

If grain surplus is public knowledge, starvation during lockdown in Shanghai should be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Then again, until people are directly affected, it's business as usual. Media is so powerful.

[@scoobz4177]

The starvation is intentional. It doesn't matter how much grain there is. The Chinese govt is trying to kill its own citizens, again

[@brexitgreens]

It's public knowledge in China that Shanghai starvation was a result of errors in management. Nothing that's not being fixed.

[@summerain6918]

In fact, the Chinese also feel that Shanghai has done very badly this time, but this is a management problem, not a food shortage problem

[@harshsharma9233]

India feeds 35% of worlds people , yes 17 % are Indian themselves , but they produce double the food there massive population needs which is very unique thing

[@ms-jl6dl]

No it isn't. Small country of Netherlands (18 million) is world's second biggest exporter of agricultural products. They produce 10 times more food that they consume,value of their agro exports is somewhere around 140 billion USD (incl. flowers) annualy. And India is not a major grain exporter (neither is Netherlands) so it does not "feed the planet" except their own population. The Netherlands is huge food exporter and the dutch Wageningse Institut is considered as the "Harvard of agriculture".

[@harshsharma9233]

@@ms-jl6dl please read my post again ,I never said india is the largest supplier of grain in the world , all I said is it feeds 35% of world ,which includes it's huge population of 1.35 billion .

[@robertholland7558]

Cough, splutter choke, Australia, cough splutter choke.

[@samm8654]

Also exported great caste system too

[@anahitaazadeh3449]

Once again India > China every time lol

[@MrDarkbluewater]

Some notes on the concrete topic: -The USA is a bad comparison in the sense that they build most of their houses out of wood. The EU would be a better example because most of the houses there are actually build out of stone and concrete. -The mining of the stone is only one problem with using so much concrete. The cement has to be fired at 1300°C. If we are talking about 6 gigatons of concrete, that might be around 1 gigaton of cement they had to fire (if they use fairly low quality concrete). -Another interesting thing is that many of the structures in China seem to be built fully out of concrete, where as in Europe for example you would build the walls out of stone or stone composite materials which uses much less energy and allows for better material properties in terms of insulation and how much moisture can get through.

[@KokoroKatsura]

A N I M E N I M E

[@charleswomack2166]

They have been buying about one half of the world's foodstuffs for quite some time now. The problem with this is that most of it is rotting away in state corn/wheat/food silos, Whilst people in Africa and North Korea are starving!

[@JamieCrookes]

Indeed. For foodstuffs you really have to use the "Just in Time" model, or the food equivalent. They don't have a lot of grain if 75% is rotten.

[@dodieodie498]

It reminds me of that sort of toxic relationship where one person would rather see something destroyed than allow the other person to have it. China is NOT the kind of "person" you want to be in a relationship with.

[@TheJoergenDK]

I like what you're doing, it's very informative! The footage is both beautiful and ugly, both full of hope and dispair. Awesome scenery!

[@bjarkih1977]

Cement production costs a lot of energy and has a HUGE carbon footpring. So concrete is not an environmentally friendly construction material.

[@NashHinton]

Most co2 still comes from driving cars though.

[@VyseLegendaire]

@@NashHinton Ocean megaliner container ships contribute the greatest proportion of CO2, etc. into the air.

[@simoncleret]

There are more efficient uses of it, like aircrete, but that's not what they're doing.

[@ArchesBro]

You could argue that dense housing in China and public transportation is more carbon efficient. The US is packed with rather depressing suburban sprawl that requires carbon costly cars which offers neither economics or quality of life. The building of ghost cities in China and housing speculation are a big yikes though. Housing speculation and wild expanding highways are big in the US on the other hand

[@bjarkih1977]

@@ArchesBro That only works if those densely built houses were all populated. Also, the construction industry, at least in Europe, is trying to move away from concrete.

[@mortenrl1946]

This will only affect the countries that are already struggling the most. What an awful way for China to leverage its power. I have sometimes wondered why my native Denmark is so heavily subsidized by the EU for food production (we make about six times what we consume because they give farmers free money).. I always thought it seemed a bit strange, but it makes sense now.

[@stevemcgowen]

This almost exclusively negatively impacts countries who also support Russia. Let them beg Russia for food…

[@humoursque8447]

Denmark is a small country with very small population.

[@mortenrl1946]

@@humoursque8447 Yes.

[@brettbaker5599]

Morten, pick up a copy of The Taste of War World War 2 and The Battle For Food. It will explain Europe's paranoia about food production.

[@BountyFlamor]

Agriculture in the EU is heavily subsidised due to a fear of food shortages after WW2. Later came the agriculture lobby to make sure it stays subsidised.

[@DrowSorcerer]

As a structural engineer it is just incomprehensible how they even manage to complete the buildings without them collapsing during construction. Well used concrete can be an extraordinary material but you can clearly see here they don't care at all about buildings ever being used or even seen by anyone. It's just building trash for the sake of building trash.

[@sonialelii9038]

Just depressing to think about the wasted resources. All that concrete that was used for skyrise apartment buildings that are empty and rotting. It's complete insanity.

[@victorye7150]

If America's construction is so good why the counties chose belt and road initiative over build back better?

[@DrowSorcerer]

@@victorye7150 perhaps because Build Back Better is an only local construction investment? Besides the belt and road initiative has proven to be a debt scam to further empoverish third world countries

[@brexitgreens]

No different from you going to the gym: lifting for the sake of lifting. Stop going to the gym! 😄

[@metalhamster14]

Talking about waste, when I lived in China the sidewalk outside my apartment got dug up and replaced literally 3 times per year. Annoying as hell.

[@sonialelii9038]

Why did they do that? Bad construction or just a way to keep people working?

[@metalhamster14]

@@sonialelii9038 Make use of excess supply of raw building materials; keep people working; syphon off money from local government via meaningless projects (i.e. small-scale corruption); stupidity

[@marcodarko6941]

Seems a bit like democrat cronyism and nepotism here in the states.. bring everybody on board to make a buck. They learn corruption so well from their masters.

[@summerain6918]

@@sonialelii9038 Because urban planning is not in place. Therefore, integrated pipe corridors are being promoted

[@marieparker3822]

I just wish someone in the British Government would watch your brilliantly informative videos, Winston and Matthew.

[@georgina979]

They have but these British Gov, American Gov, Australian, Canadian, NZ etc officials have been bribed to ignore the facts.

[@wf6951]

Why

[@AdamOwenBrowning]

@@wf6951 because dear God we don't like our politicians sucking up to Chinese interests, but it's not as hot-button as it is in the States.

[@brexitgreens]

@@AdamOwenBrowning >we Speak for yourself.

[@Ssmetalslime]

They do, for sure. It's almost as good as an operative on the ground. I can also tell wion and china in focus pulls ideas from here

[@wnxdafriz]

its not just the hoover dam, there are actually a lot of dams that were built around the time of the hoover dam. there are similar ones (some not quite as large but still really large) and this was during the time to essentially add more hydro power/ create jobs with government money etc... it was a time of massive infrastructure spending that actually got to companies that actually built stuff... now you end up with most of that money going to people that act as "consultants" .... i have seen many consultants end up costing companies money

[@jaimelopez-gi3oo]

Thank you, each and every family needs to store a years worth of food supplies.

[@Trezker]

Yeah, don't rely on anyone else to store food for you. You shouldn't rely on anyone else to manage any type of investment for you. Unless you're so rich you simply don't have enough time in a day to manage everything.

[@humoursque8447]

"make hay while the sun shines"

[@xxxxxx-tq4mw]

Also guns and plenty of ammo.

[@Mr.Unacceptable]

Cement is limestone that is cooked in giant tumblers until powered and reactive. This is the most GHG intensive activity humans do even more than mining and making steel. The most damaging activity is the making of cement not the mining of aggregate.

[@crakermac3818]

GHG?

[@movinon1242]

GreenHouse Gasses

[@blarfroer8066]

Yup, 6-8% of the worlds CO2 emissions come from the cement production. If the cement factories were a country, they'd be the third biggest emitter of CO2 in the world, only surpassed by the USA and China

[@mgntstr]

No. Boiling water is the most GHG intensive activity humans do. H2O is the most powerful green house gas.

[@bigbelix]

@@mgntstr damn bruh we need to ban this dangerous h2o fast

[@dl8270]

Also, working on buildings keeps people from uprising against the gov. Cause there is “work”....

[@the_gilded_age_phoenix8717]

Massive top-down management never works. Government is mostly all top-down management. Although it doesn't give a small handful of folks total power, it is by far more efficient and effective to allow common individuals to manage their own lives. Some are screw-ups, but most can handle the task far better than some faraway, self-interested leeeeeeder.

[@driftingdruid]

in other words, have initiatives, referendums, more frequent voting per year, and les class division between the politicians and other citizens, like Switzerland?

[@the_gilded_age_phoenix8717]

@@driftingdruid Actually, I was talking about doing away with government itself. Switzerland is a unique case...because it is so small and homogeneous.

[@driftingdruid]

@@the_gilded_age_phoenix8717 small yes, but they've got lots of immigrants welcomed in

[@the_gilded_age_phoenix8717]

@@driftingdruid Case in point. Government never does what it claims to do. One of it's primary functions is preserving culture and protecting national boundaries. The benefits of government are an illusion.

[@Axemantitan]

The part about quotas reminds me of this joke: A Communist Party official sees a team of a hundred workers hauling a giant copper nail 100 meters long down a road. He asks the team leader what purpose such a giant nail could be used for. The leader responds, "I don't know, comrade, but it fulfills our quota of 50 tons of nails for the week."

[@summerain6918]

That was a joke about 70 years ago

[@blokin5039]

China is winning while you are 😭😭😭🤣🖕🖕

[@TheMixxon2]

Matthew ! When you edit your vpn clip, you sped it up maybe by like 5 percent, but uncheck the box to keep the same audio pitch so that it wouldn't be a bit higher like it is now :D listen to c-milk in the vpn clip and after it

[@joemama1691]

Thanks guys for the information. Very interesting and very shocking.

[@mazgaj2]

If this will result in 2nd Great Chinese Famine then I'm at loss of words for this country.

[@poempadgett4664]

It will effect the entire world, too. Look at how much packaged food, and more, is made in China that the USA depends on, and has for decades, mainly thanks to traitorous US politicians selling out US manufacturing to China, as with Dem. President Bill Clinton’s US & China Trade Pact, AND his NAFTA Trade Agreements. Disastrous! IMO

[@katys.7767]

Xis role model is Mao :D

[@namenameson9065]

If Communists were able to learn from history then they wouldn't be Communists anymore. A 2nd famine or countless more famines is a price worth paying for the CCP's ambitions of staying in power.

[@1OO_k]

Winnie the Poop’s “let them eat cake” moment is fast approaching.

[@maxyi2672]

Winnie let’s them eat grass or bullets.

[@Waldemarvonanhalt]

Something to be noted about grain storage: Grain dust, when mixed with air, can be pretty flammable and there have even been grain explosions at some silos in the past in the US and other countries.

[@ghodge82]

Dude the Chinese wouldn’t let an honest accident happen lol there too fast to mess it up themselves.. look at their entire country these days.. going to get crazy when all those people start climbing over each other trying to get Out of there.

[@TotemoGaijin]

Every couple years there will be a big story out of China about some dust explosion or another, though the last few I remember hearing about were caused by aluminum and magnesium dust I think.

[@Tugela60]

The food issue in Shanghai from my understanding wasn't because it was not there, it was incompetence, corruption and red tape that prevented it from being distributed.

[@magallanthepenguin9132]

reminds me of those chinese aunties breaking into a facility showing the corruption

[@namenameson9065]

Even if people are following orders, the ones giving the orders are insane.

[@Tugela60]

@@magallanthepenguin9132 A lot of that stuff was just rotting though, that was evidence of incompetence rather than corruption. The issue is that a lot of these local officials are just there to get paid, but don't really know what they are supposed to do or how to do it. So they just issue random orders or regulations to frustrate people until they go away and stop bothering them. That probably works normally, but in this particular situation people are starving and it could result in a riot.

[@needmoreramsay]

The company responsible for the cadmium still should be charged with assault and battery....

[@littleloner1159]

Assault and battery? Nah mate they need to be charged with a lot more than that. They didn't beat up a dude at the pub, they ruined the environment and harmed thousands for years to come.

[@MrWackozacko]

@@littleloner1159 battery. Cadmium is in batteries

[@dtcharo]

I used to see so many gigantic cement trucks in Liuzhou and that was back in the late 2000s. I can only imagine what it's like now. Beautiful city though. I swam in that river but fortunately it was before that cadmium spill. Still probably not great to swim in but I'm still alive.

[@jakesmedz8047]

Love your content glad you was on my homepage

[@The_ZeroLine]

That commodity trading is similar to naked short selling on Wall Street. China’s widespread addiction to gambling can be seen in the absurdity of party officials trading on commodity speculations on the speculation of the original speculations and son on. Lol

[@wirrinwibbi-ko801]

I have another question. If their so wastefull in construction, grain hoarding and money is no object - WHERE THE HELL IS THE MONEY COMING FROM. Most market economies would collapse from the waste you describe. I don't get it!

[@attilavarga3188]

"It's perfectly ok to eat sawdust." - Kim Il Sung

[@HontasFarmer80]

This is a really great video. Thanks for your eyewitness information.

[@GreetingsFromArrakis]

Are those extra handwarmers tied to your bikes? That’s cool lol, I wouldn’t be able to ride like that

[@maryhildreth754]

C Milk looks like he's wearing a priests collar

[@brexitgreens]

There's a similar traditional Chinese garment, no?

[@skylersmith9465]

The whole economy revolves around properties. So if something doesn't effect properties such as the people, they don't care about it, they don't need to help the people unless it helps the properties. Now if it has a negative effect on properties then you got a problem. Who cares about human rights and people dying, we care about our economy, or property of the government.

[@stephenarnold5981]

Guys, Refreshing to hear honesty on the situation that a lot of us already suspected. Yep the Chinese love to gamble ! Hope the ordinary people of China don't suffer with their governments corruption.

[@geraltofrivia7823]

6:38 Are those rebars? Holy moly no wonder the building's in ruins.

[@Tugela60]

Demo sites in the west look pretty much the same, so not sure of your point.

[@scottturcotte1860]

My 1st trip to China in 2011, I remember being in awe of how every little piece of land that could grow something was being farmed, as far as could be seen from the train riding from Chongqing to Chengdu and back. My last trip to China in spring of 2019, my wife and I took the high speed rail from Chongqing to Beijing and back after site seeing, again, about every piece of land that wasn't forest or city, had some farming going on within sight of the rails. A stark reminder of the absolute need for this to be done. I was also awed when the train was out of the mountain region, they were lighting up the rails at 300 to 305 km/h between stops on the flat ground, which didn't mean much to me until I did the conversion in my head and realized the train was doing about 190 mph!!! That was incredible, I remember calculating the train to Chengdu was only doing about 105 mph, 7 years earlier. But the point made in the video is sobering, because if they do take too much prime growing land and keep building 30 story concrete jungles, food will become harder to grow there...

[@johns9652]

I think it was one of your videos, but it may have been China Uncensored, which is another of my major news sources for China. Anyhow, I remember seeing a video about how the Chinese government was reclaiming cemeteries for agriculture, and older people were committing suicide so they could be buried in a cemetery before a new law took effect that would make all Chinese citizens have to be cremated instead. That's how desperate the CCP has become to try to raise enough crops to feed people.

[@paulgrieve7031]

Let’s see the Vimeo travels on KZbin. We need something wholesome and uplifting!

[@eamonnmckeown6770]

I remember a Chinese student saying Mao was a great guy because he ate the same diet as the people during the Great Leap Forward. Um. Not the same as those that starved and I've never seen a skinny portrait of the guy either.

[@humoursque8447]

Western foreigners should have stayed out of Asia based on historical events. There plundered, stole, killed, invaded, build colonies and caused miseries. Things might have been different.

[@summerain6918]

In general, MAO is viewed with mixed praise in China. But on the whole, recognize the positive

[@youthinasia4103]

Keep up the great work gentleman!

[@torrarosa7064]

They've known this since Qin Shi Huang Dynasty.. You control the food, you control the rat.. Same everywhere..

[@rongt859]

Yes also the iron ore from 2000 to 2018 still coming out of the ground here in Western Australia , the 2 biggest companies BHP and Rio Tinto here in 2015 BHP made $22 billion profit in 6 month alone

[@rubytuesday9539]

US builds more buildings with steel framing and less with concrete. Btw, it's a concrete mixer, not cement mixer. Cement is the is the stuff that holds the aggregate together, it's like the glue.

[@intothepandemic3378]

I been liuzhou many times. The funniest costruction i saw was the massive trade/exhibition hall. Maybe bigger than the Huston Astrodome. Maybe used twice by Liugong and SGMW....lol

[@RussellChapman99]

And now the bamboo is blossoming and fruiting which leads to an explosion in the rat population. When no more fruit left, the rats go in search of all and any food, including grain. Happens every 48 years on average.

[@GilgameshEthics]

48 years seems oddly specific

[@kiraanastasiaandersen1145]

Always awesome videos!

[@jakolu]

This video makes the idea of 40-year old frozen meat make sense (news story from 2015). Even with corruption, keeping food for that long seems crazy. Seems like restricting investment opportunities leads to people resorting to stupid worthless investments like this, and useless real estate. Treat your citizens with respect and empower them, and perhaps you'll end up with less reckless corrupt behavior.

[@peterhumphrys]

good thoughtful coverage of a complex topic gentlemen, keep up the good work, and thank you

[@AllThingsIzzyTTV]

Can we talk about how the orangesin florida were DECIMATED by a species of bug native to china? Now florida has amost no oranges

[@Metapharsical]

Invasive Emerald Ash Borer bugs too... I had to pay $1k to have infested trees removed from my yard and I expect they will continue to proliferate no matter what I do. Thanks globalism!

[@IndentureTrustee]

Oh wow , live here in Florida, never heard of it

[@robertagren9360]

Florida Juice is fake since all oranges is from Europe.

[@theeightoclock]

Great vid, fellas!

[@hannibalyin8853]

oh yeah, we Chinese don't have "farmland like the US", we grow our own potatoes at home, wow, this is new. so entertaining to watch you two, and have some superiority in the process -- I mean the IQ department. keep it up!

[@normalguy7898]

We Chinese eat dog and rat too

[@sarinulek6816]

Not to mention what they're doing to the Mekong River..how this is devasting to South East Asia..

[@DVincentW]

I respect that you deal w facts that people refuse to discuss. The DAVOS group met yesterday. Look it up.

[@jasoncollins865]

Yep, they plan on starving the world's population. Crops being destroyed worldwide (Geoengineering, chemtrails..), farmers being offered overinflated prices for their land, so they can concrete over it..'The Great Reset'

[@poempadgett4664]

Were they discussing China? By their enormous population and the huge, powerful, ultra-disciplined Chinese military, along with the fact that China cannot be swayed, like today’s the western leaders and countries, overwhelmingly, have been, let alone conform to the ruling globalist Western multicultural “ideals,” consequently, I think that the Western globalist-elites are probably making a deal with Xi Jinping & the CCP, that will help facilitate China to takeover as the top world power, because China is a member of the WEF, etc. IMO

[@nimbuscapitalsolution]

Your pronounciation on Mandarin is spot on. You have earned a subscriber! Some may find it unimportant but it shows the sincereity and effort of learning another culture... which usually translate to good content

[@hemaccabe4292]

Having a years worth of grain hardly seems excessive to me.

[@Pernection]

The Egyptians learned that

[@crazycatlady7143]

Another real eye opening video! Thank you guys!

[@robburdack4361]

i really miss the original ride videos ... wish there was more countrys in asia you could both travel in and do so again

[@anschiver]

There are plenty of countries in SEA that opened up fully or almost fully already. It's up to them if they go or don't now

[@walt_man]

Soon, soon. The plandemic just slowed it down.

[@charlesyoung2197]

I wouldn't go near Asia if I were these guys.China has long tentacles throughout Asia and corruption is rampant.

[@thepocketmonsterfamily2007]

They would most likely by targeted by the CCP.

[@pimpmoney909]

This is apocalyptical... how do we stop this? Even as a European citizen living well I am afraid.

[@namenameson9065]

It starts with reducing dependence on China and others for our essentials and turning back to local solutions and supplies. Globalism got us all into this mess. We can return to common sense Nationalism and independence and regional partnerships. If people get over the negative stigma that the left spent decades trying to associate with that word as they continue to blame Nationalism for the atrocities committed by Socialist Imperialism. China does the same thing. Are they really Nationalist? Or are they aggressively pursuing Imperialist ambitions? That's the problem, and that's what caused the atrocities of the last century, too.

[@Adrian-zw6sc]

That's what happens when western mainstream media makes the fossil fuel industry public enemy #1. Despite the fact that it's primarily BECAUSE of fossil fuels sustaining the industrial age and mass machinery, that the global poverty rate went from 90% down to 10%.

[@Varoon1]

I mistakenly read “China’s trying to save the world”, the heart gave quite a turn.

[@Movod123]

thats a plot twist I wouldn't be against...

[@rubyy.7374]

*Saving the world with Chinese characteristics

[@margaretgreenwood4243]

You two actually have hands on experience of China. Thank you

[@HollandNewsroom]

Europe has lots of farmland. Just "climate change" policies and to much rules making it for farmers so difficult to keep going.

[@AsbestosMuffins]

its less climate change and more environmental policy, even then farming generally wins out over conservation. europe's unique issue is a lot of farmland in the heart of europe was severely damaged by ww1 and ww2 with ordinance and other shit polluting the environment

[@Hedgehobbit]

The thing about the Shanghai incident is that while China may have a ton of stored grain, people can't just be giving a bag of wheat and expect to process it themselves. You need massive, industrial scale grain mills and bakeries to get it into a state to feed a city of millions of people. That's a pretty complex logistical challenge.

[@petemoss3160]

i mean, one could just boil the grains like rice...

[@penultimateh766]

Yeah, that's why the Romans could not make bread and starved to death.

[@bapparawal2457]

You literally just need to crush the wheat to get flour. Till my grandparents were young it was done at home by very simple stone grinders. Even now probably we can soak it in water and grind in mixer to get wet flour .

[@antonjanssen3549]

Nah if the alternative is hunger just grain is ok. You can grind it with a mortar and pestil to make (crappy) coarse flour, or boil it or even just let it cold soak for two to three days. None of these options are particularily enjoyable, but it's not like the CCP would care...

[@felinespirits]

In all honestly, I believe the bulk of this stored grain is meant for animal feed. There are likely some vague, sketchy PR plans released to the public, to process it into human food, but in reality, it is bought for animal feed.

[@CharlesWT-TX]

Countries use different methods to calculate their GDP numbers. But, in most countries, if you spend $100 to dig a hole and another $100 to fill it up, you've spent $200 with nothing to show for it. In China, you have a $200 asset.

[@alejandroarredondo5859]

There is no way China has 18 months worth of grain. Perfectly stored grain lasts about 6 months or so. Strategic reserves of grain have be recycled every year or they go bad at best or become giant thermobaric bombs at worst.

[@dellingson4833]

Not true, at 12% or less moisture kept in a grain elevator here in the upper great plains i've seen grain kept much longer for a better price. We'd load rail cars at 6 minutes per. car. You learn how to blend to keep consistent batches for brewers, bakers or to ports sold overseas etc. But trying to stay on topic its all about storage conditions.

[@alejandroarredondo5859]

@@dellingson4833 Absolutely if you adjust the relative humidity you can store grain for much longer, but the less humidity you have the more thermobaric affects you get. Wait long enough and it will explode. Keep it moist enough to counter the thermobaric effects and it will go bad. Average is about 6 months. You can play around with the settings and get closer to 10-12 months, but then your looking at higher storage costs and possibly labor costs.

[@singingstars5006]

We have wheat in our basement that was harvested in Sept 2020. It's still perfectly good. It still sprouts. If grain only lasted six months, we would have no grain products on the shelf six months after harvest.

[@brexitgreens]

@@alejandroarredondo5859 Can't you prevent this "thermobaric" effect by dividing grain into small parcels with plenty of air circulation? Just an ignorant man here trying to think.

[@alejandroarredondo5859]

@@brexitgreens Sure, you could separate the grain into smaller portions, but that takes up more space and is economicly ineffective. You could also just spread the grain out into a thin layer over a football field area or larger which would help alot with preserving it over long periods of time, but it takes up a lot of space and it's economicly ineffective. Grain silos aren't used because their the best way to store grain, but because they're very economical. Also air circulation is not the best way of preventing thermobaric explosions. Some circulation helps, but too much circulation introduces oxygen which feeds these kinds of explosions. Better yet create an area of high pressure, forcing grain dust and oxygen out of the silo. However, this can get expensive, so you can guess which one is used more often. Just remember there are like 8 grain silo explosions in America alone every year. It's a common occurrence.

[@blazephoenix7499]

Please do a video on the Belt and Road project which China is now extending to the Pacific and and already signed a security deal with Solomon Islands. There was a big summit yesterday and I'd really like your perspectives.

[@mrb152]

Went to Guilin in 2018. Right before I found you guys.

[@Janbore]

great episode guys. keep up the good work!! greetings from finland

[@lifestapestry2968]

Looks like hell on earth, who in their right mind would want to visit this over populated, over polluted hell hole...

[@jmshwood2801]

Yes, you're right! So right! We already canceled all our plans in visiting China, even before . . However, I've still met some westerners who like to go and stay in China and even want to marry a Chinese guy / lady . . I wonder what minds they are.

[@masterq2.033]

It's a fascinating place , a lot of diverse places and things to see.

[@victorye7150]

Soon the West will become hell hole and starve. China backed Russia has already got you by the balls.

[@uraoshi]

Damn... All the reality out there is the same as it was in Ceaușescu's Romania. Kudos for documenting what's happening in China now.

[@brexitgreens]

Except Romania didn't build world's fastest computers and a space station. "Small" difference.

[@grocerbear9700]

thank you both for sharing! i always remember the china i saw in summer 2008. a picture says a thousand words and your background videos speak for themselves; along with the commentary, things are really put into perspective. stay awesome!

[@eol6632]

The USA should invest into local food production asap. The Ukraine/Russian war is going to hinder food distribution for the next 3 years at least. Stepping up production now would put us in a good position to temporarily fill the gap in food production world wide.

[@userequaltoNull]

We produce more than enough food, but it's almost entirely commodity crops (corn, wheat, soybeans, etc). We *could* start growing our own fruits and vegetables, but we haven't.

[@h.s.6269]

I do think that there needs to be a public push to encourage people to grow victory gardens and such. Best case scenario we don't need it and everyone gets in a bit of Vit D and some exercise, worst case it helps keep food on the table instead of starving...

[@pinklady7184]

Here in Ireland, I have recently started growing my food crops on the balcony. It is a learning experience. I have potatoes growing in the old bread bags inside buclets. I have lots of lettuce varieties in square boxes. I am growing strawberries, celeries, carrots, onions, beans, etc. I am going to try growing lemons from seeds. That would be challenging. Also, I am growing chickpeas as replacement for wheat flour. When wheat flour shortage occurs, there is the chickpea flour to make bread, cakes, pasta, etc. Chickpeas can also make vegan milk, cheese, etc.

[@Pernection]

The USA will pay for undermining black farmers for years

[@ravivandersalm4586]

@@h.s.6269 worst case everyone gets some exercise. Yeah that's never going to happen

[@whatacruelchoice]

Google says a gigatonne is equivalent to the mass of all humans on the planet x2! A billion tonne, the mass of all land mammals on earth excluding humans. That really is a stupid quantity of concrete

[@brexitgreens]

If you think about it, it's not too surprising that buildings weigh more than people.

[@gomigomi1072]

Would you do another examination of phone subscriptions now vs a couple of years ago. I know it was covered in one laowai86 vid a few months ago for the initial lock downs in China how millions of phone subscriptions disappeared

[@nc4125]

Why does KZbin keep turning off notifications for this channel, i have it set to all and it changes it to personalized all the time

[@Axemantitan]

Concrete is a major source of CO2 emissions. China's massive use of concrete is making their already-high CO2 problem much worse.

[@summerain6918]

Is it the most important? All this time I thought it was livestock and people

[@Axemantitan]

@@summerain6918 I didn't say it was #1. I said that it is a major source.

[@stevenhoman2253]

The additionally polluting aspects of concrete manufacturing is the need for steel reinforcing rods which demands high levels of carbon burning, and the infrastructure needed for smelting. Secondly, in order for concrete to set requires an exothermic reaction, releasing vast amounts of CO2. In short, for China to maintain an accurate inventory of its lies, it needs to operate a massive excel spreadsheet.

[@Killerspieler0815]

@Steven Homan - CO2 is the least problem of all the construction-madness of China ... the problems are materials spend (incl. coal that contains toxines + radioactive substances) + tons of waste + destruction of fertile land (that was for agriculture & forest) & of course the terrible dangerous quality

[@brendanfennell3552]

As of 2021 China is still the worlds largest wheat producer with 135,000,000 metric tons at 29% of the worlds annual total, the next is India with 104,000,000 metric tons ,the next is Russia which exports some 77,000 metric tons or 19% of the worlds total, the USA is 4th and Ukraine is 7th after Canada

[@MrDarkbluewater]

Considering the population that really isn't a lot. Also since this is China we are talking about, the numbers will be horribly inflated or needed to be guessed.

[@mbc6008]

Keep up the great work!

[@mattyreardon3593]

Grain stored incorrectly can spontaneously combust. Itd why grain had to be stored in certain ways. My grandad was GM of one of Australia's largest grain companies during the gulf war. Sabotage is possible however it could just be bad practices involved in storage and distribution.

[@cesariojpn]

Right, grain silos "self-combust" when a threat of an audit is in a few days.....

[@breadlowry]

Really sad to see such a large country abusing it's people and operating so unethically. I hope one day more people will be aware and those responsible will be held accountable.

[@tocarryembers]

in school they always told us that trade is nothing but a benefit, and it has absolutely no downsides. clearly the learned dependence on other nations often leads to conflict, i.e. america's embargo of fossil fuels to japan and the attack on pearl harbor 4 months later. high population density nations with complex industrial lifestyles is unsustainable.

[@tonychopkoski2789]

5:00....In Shenyang I swam in what was a large complex of pools. Biggest I have ever seen. But that is Manchuria. Great report on concrete usage in China! And nice job on grain!! And the corruption as a major issue in China, right on! You guys should do a report on Chinese conscripts and just how good/bad they are!

[@DrDestroy]

It cant be high quality concrete. How can quality control keep up at such a pace

[@notjohncena6269]

i love you guys so much these videos feel like im travling along

[@emilyjiranek2983]

hi guys. really appreciate your show. i was wondering if you could put your view on this subject. i live in Australia. but was born in Port Moresby P.N.G. What are your views on china helping the Pacific Islands. im a little concerned what will turn out in the future. your help would be greatly appreciated especially your knowledge about china. thank you.

[@paulbartsch1223]

The CCP does nothing to help others. It’s all about either expanding their power or trying to get their money out of China. As one of the comments above said, whatever The CCP says the opposite is probably true.

[@HeardItOnTheX]

China has been bribing local governments/tribal chiefs in PNG for years, it's becoming more and more noticeable in the Highlands... (Especially Enga). They splash the cash and have been buying land for mining operations as there is a lot of Gold and Nickel in PNG. Port Moresby is so corrupt they don't really care. Australia has been using its diplomatic sway and foreign aid to try and slow it down but it seems the horse has long since bolted. But hey, Australia's no Saint either. Look into the Sandline Affair if you haven't already.

[@willpugh-calotte2199]

Fellow Aussie here. I was pleased to see that China's attempt to rush ten Pacific nations through a wide-ranging "agreement" fell in a heap (for the time being, at least) because China doesn't appreciate that the Pacific nations are _consultative_ with each other and with their people - a concept not well grasped by the autocratic CCP. It was also disgraceful how the CCP officials attempted to eject media legitimately present at the meeting venue. Hey CCP - their (Fiji's) country, their rules.

[@paulbartsch1223]

@@willpugh-calotte2199yes it's certainly interesting to watch. The CCP system doesn't stand up well to questions.

[@blazephoenix7499]

seconded. though the deal is postponed for now many of the Pacific countries were unopposed to the concept; more light needs to be shed on the topic and consequences.