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My reply taken down...so much for this channel's value of discussion and free speech.

😂 Mr.Portokalos would be very disappointed you neglected to mention the amount of Greek in the English language🤣

Excellent presentation and audience q and a Iran is a beautiful country with a vibrant culture. It deserves a better future. Thanks for a great discussion.

Western countries and scholars are baised and spread propegend against Palestine, Iran last 75 years. Western countries are baised and doing propegend against Russia.

The real thing to discuss: US Neocons war on Russia.

Wheels? She lasted less than a lettuce - why would she need wheels? To disappear even more quickly?

Wow no comments! Just started will say more if this is good!

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The problem is the US' arrogance and pride! The world is sick and tired of the most deceitful gov in the world,! Bombs away bye bye US

Opioids? China gets blamed for every thing. Purdue and another huge American drug manufacturer have been sued by US government for starting this crisis. They lost. Purdu is broke and shut down. Other drug company had to pay many millions. A good show about this on utube, with facts presented. Most drugs are synthetic now, and not made in China. I wish speakers would back up what they say with evidence, but then they couldn't blame China as much.

You didn't talk a single statement of USA hegemony. We support Chinese for successes to balance USA for world peace and a security otherwise USA destroy the world!!!

DOOM TIME FOR US

Enjoyed your presentation. But how do you skip or leave out COVID? COVID created this suituation, CCP cover up of the Lab Leak or Bioweapon use. CCP backing of Russia. This is a National Security Issue / World Security Issue! The priority is National Security and reduced risk. Who is in charge of China? The CCP? or The PLA? Why did CIA Director William Burns go to China? Priorities Change / US is trying to address all issues even under the current circumstances. Its a two way street.

I remember one line from the tv series Madam Secretary uttered by the Chinese minister to madam secretary, "Ideology kills". That striked me hard, especially spoken by the Chinese minister character who grew up during cultural revolution and saw the madness of ideology growing out of control. The current USA is best described as zealot who pursue neoliberal world order, and that is why we are in this mess today.

When your foreign policy makers fail for decades, even though your country has almost 750 military bases worldwide, you blame it on China.

Thank you!

He mentioned about how immediately after Chinese built the Pacific railroad, the US government implemented Chinese Exclusion Act. So typical US philosophy: 卸磨杀驴

Threat is simply the wrong word to describe China, Mr. Hanson represent the waning US leadership and influence that had resulted in loss of lives and destructions around the world; driven by the MIC --military industrial complex. America is put to shame in how it treated Chinese after they helped build this country.

What about the aspiration of Chinese people like Dr. Li Wenliang , who was disappeared for simply telling friends and family about a contagious disease? If we don’t stand up for common people’s human right and basic respect for rules of laws while we can, will we, American become more and more like China that power is concentrated in a few and more and more social control will put in place and use more and more propaganda to appease the mass? If so, the inequality in America will be even worse than now. When people have no right, there is no wealth. Any wealth that a person creates can be taken by the country machine, which demand to be one party and power concentrated in those small group of people- jungle rule… Is that what we want to head to? It is also ridiculous to accept the “Chinese” explanation of IP infringement- it is like saying to a robbery that yes, please continue to rob me because I understand that it is your family tradition and your family think this is a type of art form. This most likely pointed out that Mr. Hanson likely don’t speak any Chinese and can only take in whatever the information CCP feed him

US domestic challenges are more pressing than what China poses. Inequality, diminishing prospects of middle class, structural issue in electoral system and oversized influence of money on policy are making US less democratic and meritocratic. More military spending and hysteria against China can not solve these fundamental issues. However the systematic inertia in the US are so powerful and seem to make any fundamental changes in US nearly impossible. The saving grace for US have always been its immigration policy and technological innovation. Hope a better instinct will prevail within US.

I would take Mr. Hanson's words with skepticism. Note how very carefully he presents Xi and the Chinese as homogeneous in their outlook. Hanson knows better and also knows that all people and "leaders" in China live and speak at President Xi's permission. My interpretation of Hanson's talk is that Hanson wants to preserve his own ability to return to China. Use caution when listening to Hanson.

Civilized democratic countries and people must unite against the genocidal Chinese Communist party, a regime of thugs that only respects power, has no qualm of murdering its own people to stay in power, while bullying smaller neighboring countries.

21:26 Did he say the Chinese navy is there to defend Taiwan!!!?

Please, for your own favor, do not see us Chinese as a threat to he world. We seek harmony and want to put food into every mouth under the sun, And eliminate any hypicrites along the way. We might fail decades but never Millenniums

Americans only have hegemony in their minds. Anyone who threatens his hegemony is a threat. It has nothing to do with China. Whether it is challenging his military hegemony, economic hegemony, or media hegemony, they will all be regarded as threats. China has the ability to do everything. It challenges the hegemony of the United States, so it is regarded as the biggest threat, but the United States should think about why other countries are challenging the hegemony of the United States. It is not only China that is challenging the hegemony of the United States. Now the whole world is de-dollarizing and challenging the financial hegemony of the United States. In the end, the United States has done too many bad things, too many lies and oppression, and finally backfired on itself, but it still brazenly seeks reasons from others, which is doomed to the decline of the United States. The US media has been discussing the threat of China for political purposes, to confuse the public, create panic, and find reasons for its wrong policies. The media is just a political propaganda tool.

A very interesting talk. Thank you, UMD will serve the public well if it can invite John Thornton, ex Goldman Sachs president, to give a talk on US China relation, th-cam.com/video/kgUX82Vh_8I/w-d-xo.html

Monroe Doctrine is delusional messianic nonsense that God chose America to own the world to spread our now completely failed economic agenda to every corner Look at what our country has become & who we have been on the global stage An imperialist war machine destabilising & stealing from poorer nations Now 87% of the world is tired of us & moving away to seek shelter from our economic warfare & our interventionism

The U.S.A. enslaved millions of Africans, indigenous people received genocide, and 100 years of Jim Crow. If you believe the Holy Bible, it says that you reap what you sow. In my Hebraic spiritual opinion, Hegemony is demonic and against Maat that we are our brothers and sisters' keepers. China is unknowingly adhering to godly values, as opposed to the USA and Western nations.

Food for thought.

The heart of the issue is power. All the talks about security etc. are just fig leaves. Power is the ability to make things happen in the world as you want it. Power by its nature is a zero sum game. Imagine building a house. If two parties are involved, the house will end up the way the more powerful party wants. For centuries, the West, first the Europeans and then the United States, controlled the world. Even the Soviet Union was part of the West. It was a cancer of the West, but still part of the West. Karl Marx was British. When Lenin went into exile, he went to Western Europe. The bulk of the Soviet military forces was in Europe. With the rise of China, this power of the West, mostly the United States, to order others around is significantly eroded. In 1990, all the developing countries in the world depended on the West for capital, technology, and market. Now they have two sources of capital, technology and market. And China is better than the West in building infrastructure, which the poor countries need. So, African leaders now feel free to tell the US to mind its own business when the US criticizes the way they punish homosexuals. It is this erosion of power to boss other countries around, not a threat to the United States itself, that drives the current hostility towards China. I recommend that people who are interested in this topic to reflect on one point. In the current world, wealth is created in the education system, laboratories, factories and companies. That means you cannot deter someone else rising. If China is to put more money into education or shipyards, what can you do about it? The answer is NOTHING. If China is to put more money into high technology research, what can you do about it? The answer is NOTHING. No country in the world is capable of attacking the United States. The US is a lot better off if those people in Washington stop their culture wars and start spending their time and energy to make the US a better place, with better schools, better infrastructure, and less inequality. Then the United States will become stronger relative to China. Power is by its nature, a zero sum game.

If China wants to elbow their way into Africa, I say let them. Almost all of those countries are god-forsaken hellholes anyway.

Shame on you ... White God UsA

Thomas sounds very old "west colonization"

IF China FAILS it WILL become a problem? If China doesn’t succeed, the US will REMAIN a problem for humanity.

China is threat to US gangsters are warmongers who should all be thrown into jail. The rest of the 300 million Americans should love China as a saviour.

China growing its navy tonnage to "DEFEND TAIWAN" (21':25")? China "defending" Taiwan? As if Taiwan was Chinese territory. This fellow is barking mad. He must be restrained. That type of traitor needs to be smoked out of both government and academia. China has no legal claim to Taiwan. Taiwan has not been part of China. Taiwan is not separated from China. Taiwan used to be part of Japan. Since the United States stole Taiwan to park its Chinese proxy of THE RAPE OF JAPAN, Taiwan is separated from Japan. Four steps toward a peaceful resolution of the Taiwan issue :
 1) Admit that non-Chinese Taiwan is effectively American Taiwan. On April 28, 1952, Japanese Taiwan became American Taiwan, a concealed protectorate or unincorporated territory of the US hiding in plain sight under Chinese-looking rags.

 2) Invite the Chinese-looking proxy in Taihoku (台北) to vacate Chinese territory Kinmen & Matsu after the inhabitants have been allowed a set period of reflection for deciding whether or not to leave that Chinese territory. Remember that, in contrast to the natives of Taiwan, the inhabitants of Kinmen and Matsu are Chinese by ancestry and by nationality. As a perk to aggrieved Chinese nationalism, transfer to Kinmen the National Palace Museum (故宫博物館) collections. The network of underground military facilites on Kinmen will provide the ideal vault where Chinese authorities will find those treasures when they resume controlling Kinmen. 3) Inform Beijing that once the return of Chinese Kinmen and Matsu under legitimate Chinese control is achieved and China is whole again, the US considers that there is no outstanding issue of the civil war left to chew the fat over.

 4) Comply with SFPT article 23 (a) “principal occupying power” clause and put US boots on former Japanese Taiwan, currently American Taiwan. Tsai Ing-wen's 2023 American Taiwan is in the same league a Manuel Quezon's 1936-46 American Philippines. USMC unites presently garrisoned on Okinawa in preparation for a Taiwan contingency should be transferred to Taiwan. It is unconscionable to subject the population of Japanese Okinawa to collateral damages in the occurence of a Taiwan contingency.

 Congress needs to focus like a laser on the currently undetermined legal status of Taiwan and the Penghu Islands. The perennially dissembling weasels at US-DOS should not be left off the hook. Congress needs to demand of US-DOS to fetch from its archives the July 13, 1971 "Starr Memorandum" that President Nixon's Assistant for National Security Affairs Henri Kissinger suppressed at Chou En-lai's urging.

Where’s the analysis?

So glad that Russia and China are working together. They know how to get along with respect to each other. Russia is not seen as the junior partner by China. They refer to their relationship as an asset as Russia is able to provide China with its resource needs.

Multinational export jobs to China, China's fault. Drug dealers deal drugs, China's fault. Seem like everything is China's fault. Quite normal in this society.

We r the toddlers of the world destroying everything in our wake blaming the ancient old wise Chinese for making good decisions while we were busy wasting 8T on losing wars & toppling the global economy (not China’s)

Why does US insist that China to be like you when the USA is the bully of the world!

Thomas sounds very old "west colonization"

China is eating our cake.... 😂😂😂😂 Can we ahare it.... No😢😢😢😢

Hey let blame china.... For everything....!!! Because they don't want to be our slavers 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉

W out an economic paradigm shift away from failed neoliberal austerity we will end in a civil war as AI & Robotics begin to disappear jobs the new ones will require resources to gain the skills needed & the Trump voters don’t have the $ or skills so despair will deepen & w a 50% surge in far right militia groups across the US & w the far right tech billionaires feeding them lies & fuelling the hate we r in serious danger “American Fascists” by Chris Hedges is an incredible deep dive into the Christo fascism & the rise of hate groups that stemmed from the last 4 decades of deindustrialising & the opioid crisis that was worsened vis a vis the 2008 collapse when we failed to fix anything

I’m sorry to ramble but think about our so called partners - Europe is a mess & the quad is also in no shape to cut off China An arms race is a wasted effort when the US could b working W China which is what they wanted We could’ve been working on saving the planet & on how to handle the AI robotics revolution that will disappear millions then billions of jobs China isn’t looking to b the hegemonic power that’s the difference

Also unlike the Soviet Union who was Leninist China is much more rooted in Marxism so this is the 1st real success of this philosophy & it’s proving to b far more sustainable & far more effective for healthy prosperity I mean China is not facing even 1% of America’s crisis’s

America would need a decade or more to get anywhere near China who doesn’t need bombs or meddling or sanctions to build soft power it’s refreshing for 87% of the world to have options outside of the neoliberal austerity measures we force into countries who take our debt traps (yes, we r the debt trap not China)

Xi also lifted 853M people out of poverty & cut off parasitic sectors like real estate & tutoring ect & they got billionaires reigned in - don’t worry they r still billionaires but unlike in America they can’t buy power in the highly complex Govt of China which is a direct people’s democracy far more than we have in the west b cuz while u have 1 party they have 90M people working directly w the citizens & CHANGE POLICIES whereas we vote but don’t influence policy at all

China is only a “threat” to our hegemony not to our national security nor r they a military threat WE r. They beat us at capitalism b cuz they r Socialist & their model is now the most successful in history of mankind The US is a global threat to both the planet & humanity