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Watching the video and pausing it for a moment. I am really happy that you made this one. I only discovered these channels of you and laowhy86 several months ago (half a year maybe? Been watching every video since then and also watched most of the older ones) and even though it's pretty clear that what you guys talk about clearly are true and important, I never understood the focus on China (even though you both lived there for so long) and your determination to show the world what's going on there. I never understood why this all is so absolutely important to you both, even though several topics clearly do affect the rest of the world. I hope to get wiser from this video. Continuing watching the video now. :-) Sorry for the weird formulations; I'm not entirely sober anymore at this moment. :P Edit: God dammit! @5:11 I was just taking another shot right at that moment! :D
It's like something I read once: So you're not into politics? Well, your boss is, your landlord is, your bank is, and all the more powerful people in your life are, too.
The most ironic part is that by immediately and overwhelmingly trying to crush any criticism they're effectively admitting just how fragile and vulnerable they are.
Well it has advantages and disadvantages. In democracy you have more rights but also way more bs is spreading. In a single party state less bs is spreading but you have less rights. And with bs I mean something hurtful to the government.
As a Karelian descended, to whom we lost our village to the communism, my godmother always said this, which I agree to this day: "The first thing they'll do, is kill the truth".
Truth is a funny thing. If all people say the sky is green, and every people believed in it, then sky will be green. If everyone believe that this lie is the truth, then that lie will become the truth. If every family taught their kids that assassinating a president from another country is a funny thing, then everyone will laugh and that is become the norm.
@@devindewet3876Thats for sure. Chinese here and I'd tell you this is 100% not allowed in any school I know or could think if in China. However, random shit like this just happens, some young people in America celebrate 9/11. To be clear, I'm not trying to justify their actions, but some perhaps unfortunate kids just put themselves through things like this, it is what it is. Everyone assumes these people represent all of China despite the fact that they hardly represent their school....
Imagine how corrupted a nation's soul must be to derive laughter from an assassination, while their government cries crocodile tears at the slightest criticism.
Lmao, why are you acting like Abe did not deny the Japanese war crimes and has prayed infront of a mural of a Japanese war criminal. What are the Chinese supposed to love Abe? Imagine if the German prime minister said the holocaust never happend.
Eh...I mean, if you know the history between the two countries(Rape of Nanking) and all that, it isn't too surprising. China and S. Korea get along with Japan economically, but not all the citizenry have warm and fuzzy feelings about Japan. I don't think that's even a CCP condoned thing either. Abe and XI actually got along well, and Xi issued condolences upon his death. Yeah, doesn't mean much in politics, but still, it's something, and yeah, you'll still have the CCP kicking up anti-Japanese sentiment over the disputed islands and territorial waters.
Im Iranian and I get the same from ppl outside of Iran, they dont get that u can't simply "stand up" when the govt is literally mowing u down with ak47s in the streets, the fear of literal death is nothing to scoff at
This is why our second amendment is (right the bear arms) here in the US is so important. If you give up your means of self defense the government can do what it wants and you have no way to fight back. A lot of Americans think we should all give up that right but they only think that because times are relatively easy and peaceful. If times were tough like in your country or other countries they'd be glad to have a means of self defense. I pray one day the Iranian people will live free and peaceful. I'd love to visit Iran because of the food, people, and history but that's probably not a good idea because of the current government. Stay safe man.
@@TruthIsTheNewHate84 oh i love ur second amemdment, if only we had it in the first place the damn mess that is Iran wouldnt have existed, and if u ever come to Iran hit me up lol
I’m not being critical of having a gun. But does it help, when they say, we have your daughter. Now do what we want. Good, we will release her, but we know where all your family members live, and work, etc? Apparently, this is the approach to the protests, now that they have Chinese surveillance equipment. Or have I heard wrong?
@@markmitchell457 exactly.. Stop bi****** about the life and every inconsequential thing ya'll have in America and enjoy it. You left and right wingers love to go against each other about everything it seems, like the car you drive, cost of coffee, color of your panties, everything
Unable to take criticism is a sign of insecurity and weakness. Be it a person or a large nation. It means that they are unable to think critically and improve.
It goes deeper than that too. The entire Chinese perspective is baffling. If you go on say, Quora, you can interact with the Chinese public phase pretty heavily. Serpentza discusses well how it is in China, but one also must see how China views the rest of the world. They extrapolate the concept that you can't criticize China but also, that any country that does criticize or disagree with them is actually a puppet of China's enemies. What this indicates is that China does not believe in the sovereignty and agency of other countries.
Don't worry mate. I spent nine years in 3 provinces (Guangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian), I left in July. I knew Chinese history and what had been done, but I thought that was in the past. My day-to-day life wasn't really affected by the government, just a few "eye-roll moments"....T.I.C! But slowly...a drip, drip, drip of mean, illogical, xenophobic policies handed down from the central CCP started to push into that life. Leaving hurt. I loved my city, my job, my relationships, and the memories. But the longer I stayed, the more I felt like a "mafia wife" (I know my husband does bad things, but I shut up and take the money) Now working in Vietnam (authoritarian I know), but I don't need a VPN, Google APPS work, I haven't seen a camera or a cop in a month, and loads of Korean and Japanese products are available in the shops. Importantly, the people here are friendly, appreciate my help in developing their country, and don't treat me with suspicion.
I understand how you feel. I moved to Japan after visiting 4 times previously and have been questioning my decision because the toll of bullshit slowly adds up. You don’t see it as a tourist and it’s maddening to live in a place that is so resistant to change regardless of how inefficient the system is.
@oShadowkun just because someone hasn't left their "house" doesn't mean they have to enjoy eating fried cockroaches. Anyone who lives in a big metropolitan western city can see how Asian people are. Apart from Japan I have absolutely no interest in visiting other Asian countries.
Reminds me of a joke from USSR. "You have no freedom! I can stand in our capital and yell "The US president is a crook." Russian: "Big deal. I can stand in our capital and yell the US leader is a crook, too."
The United States spends billions of dollars every year to control the media to smear and spread rumors to demonize China. Believe that more will be needed in the next appropriation
As someone living in Japan (foreigner), I was not a fan of Shinzo Abe, but re-enacting the assassination at a Chinese high school... ??! That is insane!!! I am at a loss for words... What are they teaching their children ??! (the next generation)
Is it worse than what is being taught to very young children in first world countries by homosexual teachers, look at what is being demonstrated, taught to the nation's children.
Yeah, speaking of adventure, in 2016 I took ground transportation only from London to Singapore, taking a hard right south out of Russia through Mongolia into China. I took my time with the whole trip taking several months. And China was absolutely was love/hate. For one week I rented a motorcycle and "explored" and the level of poverty, destitution actually, that many Chinese live in was astonishing. I lived in Indonesia for one year, doing my PhD research living in a village, and the worst of China is less well-off than the worst of Indonesia. It's also interesting, that Amazon took down your "conquering… China" series that I BOUGHT, and to this day they've given no explanation. anyway, keep up the good work man. I've been a long time viewer.
Of course they took it down. You cannot criticize any group of non white people in the US. It is strictly and publicly forbidden. We have what are called “protected groups” in the US where you are not allowed to speak negatively about them. All non whites are considered protected. This is why discussion on the origin of Covid was immediately removed online. About 55% of the US would advocate for your death for criticizing China. I’m not kidding, this is how important race is to more than half of the country.
Amazon likes Chinese money too much, that's why they took it down, no doubt. There are a lot of U.S. based corporations who are in the pocket of China.
Thanks for the great video! This is why we Taiwanese really afraid to “reunite” with China. To us, tons of unbelievable evils happens to China everyday, and people ignore it. Good people in China will be silenced and the evil can speak and control the country, if this doesn’t change, China will impact not only their neighbors but whole world.😢
unfortunately a billion brainwashed refugees with barely any workplace skills with food and water insecurity and infrastructure issues isn't something Taiwan should burden itself with. The UK should take them instead since it started all this chaos centuries ago@@nuntana2
My wife and I have landed in China several times to switch planes. One time we both got a rather bad food poisoning from just drinking Coca Cola there. I wish I had discovered this channel earlier. My brother has visited China several years ago and got poisoned in a local bar for extortion. Even when he was able to get out of there with great trouble, they followed him and tried to make sure he would pay a crazy amount of money for the taxi that he wanted to flee in. I can tell the full story if you like?
When I was younger, I always wanted to go to China. I even did a school report on the country. After finding out all this information, I never want to step a foot in there.
Sure! He went there and at every historic place where he went to, he got elbows against his chest or belly from people who wanted to get inside there before a foreigner (which feels similar to my own experiences with chinese people on vacation in Asian countries like a very old tiny Chinese woman who pushed me back into the elevator because she wanted to get in when I was trying to get out.) At some point he was just tired and thirsty and wanted to get a drink. He was aware of all the scammers and just decided to ask an old lady who was sitting at a street if there was a reliable place somewhere where he could get a drink. The lady did speak English and in a very friendly manner she pointed him to a pub closeby. My brother went inside and said that he did not need a bar lady, he also didn't want a special seat; he just wanted to sit at the bar and have a simple drink. "You go sit there!", the bar lady said, and pointed at some seats in a corner. - "But I don't want to pay for sitting there!", my brother said and after being reassured he went to sit there. A bar lady came and hit him softly on his shoulder and said: "You buy me a drink!!!" He clearly said he wasn't interested, and after multiple hits on the shoulder and the same line again, he told her clearly that he was not going to buy her a drink, so she just sat next to him, very grumpy. (I will cut the story here because on TH-cam, long stories often get deleted. Will continue quickly.) @@romanpavlovich
@@romanpavlovich Continuing! So my brother got his simple drink (cola or whatever it was) and he really felt something was wrong. The bar lady started again to harrass him for buying her a drink and he just decided to pour down the drink down his throat as quickly as he could and he jumped up asking for the bill. Th bar lady pulled him down to his seat and told him to calm down and sit with her for a while. He smelled trouble and got up again and wanted to get away, but she pulled him down again for another drink. This went on and on for a while and at some point he started to feel a bit dizzy. Was he poisoned or something? And then he got the bill. I forgot the exact amount but it was several hundreds of dollars, maybe close to a thousand! He shouted at the tiny old female owner (who was standing in front of him) what the efffff this was all about and saw in the bill that it was for the drink, the service of bringing the drink to him, the seat, the company of the bar lady, the mandatory drinks that he had to buy for the bar lady etc etc etc. (Cutting the reply again because I'd hate it if everything would get deleted.)
We had an ethics component in nursing school because so many of the cadavers sent to the college from countries like Pakistan were murdered older relatives who wanted the money paid for the corpse. One of the subjects we covered were the selling of organs taken from political prisoners in china without the use of anesthesia. You can't take an organ from a dead person. They need oxygen to be useful, so the donor has to at least be breathing. Is it ethical to receive organs taken from living political prisoners in chana? No. After I graduated there was this traveling show from china of real bodies that had been plasticized. They were bodies of young people in different positions with their skin removed and all organs and muscles plasticized with glass eyes. I didn't go to see them even though friends told me it was interesting because all I could think was, "are these political prisoners who've been plasticized and sold?" It's heartbreaking. In china the very citizens themselves are a commodity, a resource to the government.
Wasn’t there a similar exhibit here in the states? I could’ve sworn there was an exhibit for sometime educating people about human anatomy…. But yeah, I wouldn’t trust the Chinese with something like that. Most certainly were victims of some horrid act.
Ouch! It’s totally awful and disgusting, what they do to their own people in China. There’s a interview on TH-cam, from a Chinese surgeon, who in the late 90s. He was forced to do organ harvesting in a small town. Outside of the prying eyes. He didn’t know what he was getting himself into. Until it was too late. And he couldn’t say no. It traumatized him. That he finally fled China. He now lives in the UK. Being like a taxi driver, or something like that. And he says he doesn’t regret it still. That shows, how horrified he truly was. It’s horrifically sad. This needs to be spoken out loudly, and not covered up by China’s force onto our countries. China bullies, all of the western countries, to be quiet. Yet they attack us all the time. And we do nothing about it and allow them to do it. it’s total BS! Needs to stop now!
This is the mindset of the WEF crew and the like. The politicians are just pawns for the ones pulling strings above them.. think.. who puts these people in those positions?
As an Chinese i wanna appreciate you continuous effort on criticizing the dark side of our society you make us better and better keep up with your work mate!
@@Gonnie6969 i spent my first 20 yrs in China now im live in Australia which is my second home. The only credit system which being using in China is financially related there is nothing to do with you social activities.
@@vrushalishende7437 That's true. The thing is, CCP just don't need such a system to punish you. They can do what they want, at any time, as always. So why whould they use a system to limit themselves?
Unlike China, you can criticize your country and government in America and most other Western countries. No country is perfect and that includes America. America could not get to where it is today without the countless critics over the centuries being heard. Even the most patriotic "Proud to be American" individual has plenty of criticisms of America. Chances are, if you have something to criticize about America, you're probably not the only person with that criticism and although not every criticism will be heard and lead to change for the better in America, you at least have a chance to voice it and hope it'll lead to something better, unlike in China.
That made me think about how certain people seem to antagonize the culture and the people, but worship the government, and frame anything that critical of the government and critical of authority "conspiracy". We live in very strange times.
Try doing that in Latin America, suddenly you'll get the same treatment complained of here. But Latin America is capitalist... so? What conclusion does that lead to?
"Unlike China, you can criticize your country and government in America and most other Western countries." You can criticize China as long as you keep it your private opinion. But as soon you go public with your private opinion you will get yourself into trouble. So, you can have wonderful discussions about politics, human rights, religion and things more like that with friends and family. But don't do that in a public space e.g. as a teacher at a school. "You at least have a chance to voice it and hope it'll lead to something better, unlike in China." That is true! As said: as soon as you go public (= voicing it) you will have to face the consequences in China. Those won't be severe from the start, but as often as you repeatedly keep on going public with your critics the more severe the consequences will become.
Good for you, Wilson. You're maturing. The quote you used is a loose translation from the Greek Philosopher Pericles (You can ignore politics, but politics will not ignore you). There's also some great ones from Voltaire: "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong" and "Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
Damn. We need that Cultivate extension for the UK Amazon store. Im so fed up with buying something from Amazon only to find out when it arrives that I've bought a cheap Chinese knockoff.
@@serpentzaSir, Salute to you. But why you only talk about China? Why not about North Korea? North Korea is about 1000 times worse than China. Why are you silent on North Korea, Sir? May we know?
On my first of 2 trips to Tibet we were invited into local homes. I was surprised to see an enormous photo (wall sized) of Chairman Mao. Each home was required by law to have this in their home. Also, if any items showing the Dali Lama were found they would be severely punished. This was 100’s of kilometers from any large city. I questioned ‘how would they know’? And was told periodically send out squads even to remote areas to check. Also, in Lhasa, we were constantly followed by secret police. They are ridiculously obvious, but we were warned to watch what we said. This was in 2006 & I think it is much worse now with AI recognition.
Don't use your ‘pride’ and racial superiority to judge Tibet. I work in Tibet. Like the locals, I hope to live a happy life. In fact, except for the high altitude, everything about us is GOOD.
With this one . If you look at his content it's always abt being informative and explosive by being blunt no bs attitude abt China . He is very articulate and brave . Also considering his past experiences it's jus unreal it's full of thrill and adventure.
@@itsbonkerjojo9028 what I really respect is that he acknowledged he was too timid to bring it up in the past. And explaining how his family suffered. I work in a painful field and if I ever put my spouse in danger I’ll blame myself a lot…but I hope I will not quit. We all have a duty
I noticed you’re having a lot more views nowadays. Keep it up! It’s extremely hard to see a foreigner to speak out for the Chinese. If a foreigner propagandized China, he can get very rich and comfortable.
Being Russian in Russia speaking out against the war in Ukraine I very well understand the topic of this video. We have lost our civil rights to protest here in Russia. The court have awarded me with severe fines twice for publicly criticizing Russian army, and I am afraid to speak more, because the next case would be a criminal offence with a possible jail time, not just a fine. Sad times have came to Russia. We had rights to speak openly during the 1990s and 2010s after the terrible USSR has collapsed, but not anymore. The feeling is like the modern variation of USSR is slowly taking its grip over Russia and Belarus...
I just wanted to let you know that your channel has had a real impact on me and no doubt countless others. I took stock and realized that my awareness of China's issues is probably more than half due to your coverage, and this is without even being a subscriber and without making any focused effort to absorb this content. Over the years it has simply seeped through, and that's a testament to a lot of diligent and hard work on your end.
It's funny. I came to South Africa lately to study, and during one of the lessons that was all about discussing all kinds of societal problems, I was criticized that I shouldn't be allowed to speak, because I'm a foreigner. It was very startling.
South Africa is a trash heap. Not like it matters what the societal issues are from the perspective of a foreigner. God forbid, did you go there because they had something you really needed academically...
When I lived in China with my Chinese wife, we would make sure to avoid any protests we would see. At first I would want to see what they were protesting about, but we decided that it was not safe to be seen at a protest, even if we were not protesting. I saw many parents where their kids were stolen and they were running around frantically looking for them. Very sad to see. My wife keeps our daughter close by us at all times when we are in China. My wife does not like that I even make comments like this about China from the US on TH-cam because she fears that it might cause problems for her family in China, or prevent us from being able to visit, if they figure out who I am.
@@joyeternal2314 I have never seen it. But that does not mean it does or does not happen, because lots of stuff goes on in China that I have no idea is happening around me.
Yea that sucks and sounds stressful. Hopefully your youtube handle doesn't actually contain your name..seeing as your commenting on the subject matter that they probably routinely sift thru (maybe)
@@essadis I bet they have people working at TH-cam though that could probably cross reference the account to the email, and then from there, you can track down who the person is. If they figure it out, they figure it out. I can't see her family getting into too much trouble because I make some random comments on the internet. Now if I had a YT channel like this, they would definitely cause some problems.
I'm grateful for the content you create, it helps so many people understand what is really going on in China. Before discovering you i had no idea of the lenghts the CCP are willing to go to just to save their own face, its ridiculous. Now im quite informed about these topics and yet constantly learning more, thanks to you.
My father is from Dominican Republic. His father (my grandfather) spoke out against the US backed dictator, Trujillo. They had to flee because the penalty for that was prison, death, rape of daughters and wife etc. so they came to USA when my dad was 9 to seek asylum. Many Americans are still oblivious to how our own government helps back these dictators. And turn a blind eye to evil all for $$$$$$$
Position of authority and power always attract corrupt and Sociopathic people. This will always be the case. It's crazy that just by the very nature of our system, the people making the biggest decision wouldn't feel any suffering if they ordered the death of millions, so long it doesn't personally hurt themselves.
I am sorry that happened. The answer to why is very simple the USA lost the war against communism. And yes most of this started in the 1920s, even still there is a massive push to destroy the nuclear family and indoctrinate out children it's cultural Marxism 101. It's impossible to destroy America by martial means, but to destroy a culture one generation at a time is not so impossible.
The real US history doesn't get taught in Highschool because if it was then once those kids were able to vote those in power would quickly find themselves out of power. The amount of what I consider crimes against humanity committed by the CIA on behalf of not the people but corporations and the 1 percent is truly sickening. Most of the horrors that have occurred in South America are a direct result of the CIA funding and training monsters who would tow the line the CIA wanted.
My friend, I hear you. When I was only 29 I went to Wuhan for a year to teach English and that experience was enough to scar me for life. When I came back home I was completely changed, I saw the whole world in a new perspective. It's been almost two decades since then, but hearing everything you were saying brought me right back to those days. I agree with all that you've said and it is a behemoth of a task, but I do believe in miracles and I pray every day that the wonderful kids and friends that I made in China will someday live a free life. Thank you for showing this, it DOES need to be talked about. Much love and respect from Canada.
Was it just like living in a completely different environment that changed your perception of the world? As like living in a poorer region? Or was it something else? Sorry I am just really interested :)
@@karlebersberger2835 somewhat different, but seeing a person get shot on the street in South America - more than once, changed me for sure. in comparison with Europe where I have seen that not even once I have lived 4 years there, including Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and some other, peaceful, places
What an ignorance speaking, do you know what chinese think indeed, do you know why this guy filled with hatred toward China, while he had said "China saved his life" after lived in China serveral years. Do you know why? True FUNNY.
SOOOO many knockoff products on that site. Almost indistinguishable from the real ones but will often fail much faster or sometimes even be dangerous. Samsung and iPhone chargers have been a big one for a long time, they look authentic but some have even caught on fire on a few occasions.
amazon ended my 20+ employee business by ordering knockoffs from china and selling the cheap crap on amazon. It's a real thing and I watched it happen.
@@greenmoxy you're one of the lucky ones then. That's really unfortunate about your employees. Small businesses often take much better care of people than these monstrous corps.
Probably the most honest and real TH-cam I have ever encountered and the fact he still feels so absolutely bad for criticism that the Chinese government and Xi deserve is admirable. This man absolutely loves China and it's people the way he wants to share, show and explain the culture in a positive light but it shows you are also extremely troubled and worried about Chinas future under the CCP. You would never dedicate your entire adult hobbies and existence? Not whole existence but a significant amount of free time between you and laowhy86. It's a love for what China could be and can be. It definitely shows in your early videos kinda like a boyish charm or whatever they call it.....then reality over time, of how Xi and company can be. Extreme props to you for showing initially how absolutely amazing China can be and even more extreme props for doubling down and not being bullied by exposing how corrupt it is. Stay awesome you inspire me to stay awesome
We all change. I am ashamed of the man I was at 25. There is no shame in being a better man than you were. Growing as a person and seeing points in the world you were blind to is what makes us better than animals.
"Can't imagine doing this...." What is worse ? Re-enacting a past assassination, or continuing with actual covert 'regime change' against foreign countries including the murder, imprisonment or exile of their prime ministers and presidents ? From Iran (1953) through to Ukraine (2014) to Pakistan (2023). Where is your sense of self-criticism and morality ?
@@cosimo7770Why the hell are you blaming me for the events which were not in my control? Why would I self criticize myself.. For what? I don't get your view..
@@summerain6918 Listen brother, I am from India and you don't even have to look up on Google about our historical relation with Britain, But I never laugh on death of their queen/king and prime minister..
My nephew has a similar story. Worked in the food business in China, and taught English (he was fluent in Chinese) in addition to his “day” job primarily exporting food to the US. He absolutely loved his time (13yrs in country), however approximately 2 years prior to the Beijing Olympics, he and a friend were walking by the Birds Nest and he took a photo on his iPhone and quite literally was deported on the spot. He was advised don’t even think about returning until after the Olympics. He left with his girlfriend who was a high powered CEO of a German clothing company with access to exceptional counsel, to no avail. They tried returning a week later from Thailand and we denied entry. My nephew and his boss in Beijing were somewhat well connected here in the US and even the state department failed to gain entry. It’s been many years and he’s not returned since that episode. He loved all the good things you speak of, condemned the bad privately for his protection. All that for 1 simple picture, but they must have been paranoid about any disruptions at the Birds Nest.
Ah yes, the totalitarian regimes are great for the people at the top, ripping benefits. Including wealthy, connected foreigners. Up until someone decides you should not be at the top anymore.
I enjoy your content, very thought provoking. I am an immigrant-turned-citizen in the US, and you are entitled to criticize legitimate concerns. I totally understand the expectation of the Western folks to just be able to freely stand and voice your discontent. It isn't like that elsewhere, and I don't fault the Westerners for their expectation at all. I came from the post Soviet space and there was little civility there and what you say about China was a similar circumstance in Russia.
Honesty is a burden. Ignorance a blessing. Thank you for your unbiased reports on China south Africa. Your honesty forces you to be a critic of the CCP.
I always called them “the three T’s”. Tibet, Taiwan, and Tiananmen Square. The 3 things you were not supposed to talk about in China. I had a good friend who experienced what happened in Tiananmen Square. He told me about it very cautiously. He lost several friends
Winston, that email written to you was revolting. I can't believe there are people out there willing to write such disgusting, harmful and disparaging things. I'm sorry you had to go through that. 萬歲。
seriously. people exist that write stuff like that is so shocking to me. and the fact that he claims the letter to be from "the people of china". dog is dipping his entire people in his own dogwater.
you should visit china or south korea one day. I have lived in paris and london suburbs so i already knew, thanks to algerians and africans, that humans could be very uneducated, honorless and act like filthy maggots BUT it's only in Asia that I could see the standards being even lower ....
I remember i ran into a Chinese person once on VRChat and i started asking them questions. They acted like a ran over their dog or murdered one of their family members attacking me insulting me. Saying i was a "nosey American" when im Canadian really.
@@Adan-dl7bt Why not? Not trying to be a smartass, i'd really like to know... I'm from Portugal so I'm Portuguese, but I'm also European since Portugal is in Europe. And, by the way, I'm also Iberian, since Portugal is on the Iberian Peninsula. I'm a lot of things :)
A channel filled with the propaganda of hatred, Serpentza had ever said "China saved my life" gratefully after lived in China several years, while he forgot it quickly. Each country has problems, so does China. Each one should know China has far better infrustructure and security than United States. As a human being living in this beautiful planet, we'd better showing more welblessings to the other people, less curses or hatreds.
@@xbender521China has far better infrastructure and security? Really? Explain why the chinese haven't moved into these tall buildings? Over 300 million can move into yet they can't. Explain why these buildings are falling apart? And about the better security. Its a communist totalitarian country. CCP invested billions upon billions to monitor, control, watch, and dictate its people. I already hear chinese rich moving its money out of the country and hundreds chinese illegally entering the US. Why? Because they know mainland China sucks! What bullshit saying "china has better infrastructure and better security". When you see buildings, roads, and bridges falling apart after 3 years being built. And better security when I hear thousands of chinese escaping to the west especially rich chinese finding ways to move its money out of China. I seen the videos, heard the witness. Yet this bullshitter spewing lies. Be lucky I dont meet you in person. I hate CCP supporters.
I can’t fathom how you endured living for so long in China. I lived in 5 continents for years, I traveled 4 times to India without never being blind to its issues, and yet going back and enjoying the trip…. But I came back from a 2 weeks trip from China traumatized ! It’s like looking in a very dark deep well! Not kidding, after a couple of days I had the chills in my backbone like the sense of an perpetual imminent danger…. and I was such an admirer of Chinese culture before that !
That’s what communism does to a society. After ccp inevitably fails, Chinese society will have such a long way to recover, but, unfortunately, damage done to the environment is irreversible, not on a human life scale at least
@@TheKrilliys Well, trust me, I traveled to Cuba decades ago, and didn’t had such feelings… so it has nothing to do with communism… it’s a all different issue ! Besides, the CCP has no longer anything to do with communism, the capitalist fox has been given total free range in that chicken coop! And yet I should insist on the fact that nothing special happened to me, but there’s something like « inhumane « about the atmosphere !
@@icitlalistardust9060 oh it sure does. Communism and repressions are inseparable. The thing you've mentioned that "felt inhumane" is the absence of freedom. I've felt it in 2016 when visiting russia, you really *can* smell it in the air. Cuba's just so much smaller compared to china or russia so it's probably not as apparent there
They taught and encouraged kids to be hateful against those they don’t like. Love the truths you revealed. Love the freedoms we have. People need to stand up for their rights or they will be living in the prison all their lives so their next generations. Support you always!
It's not just the fanatical dogma/patriotism behind them saying foreigners can never criticise China. It's also good old fashioned racism. I discovered many years ago how rife racism is there. They like foreign money, but nothing else about foreigners.
Man you take such a great personal risk but history will remember you for your contributions to humanity. What you are doing is very honorable and so many governments need this level of exposure in order for humans to have a chance at the paradise that is actually very possible. Thank you for what you show people because once we see a thing, and can discuss it openly, we have a tremendous opportunity to then solve those problems. I’m just very grateful to your cause. 🌟
Recently discovered your videos, really amazed as it reminds me my time there ! I spent 12 years in China, teaching project management to companies, but also having personal seminars of photography and publishing a magazine… 12 years of adventures creating a small company with 12 people, participating to shows, etc…This was a really good period of time and seeing how is China/Beijing nowadays I am not sure this could be done again now ! However, thank you for your out of heart videos ! Best, Chris
Always felt a terrible irony when I see people protesting the constitution here in the US and advocating for the government to police speech when they don't realize they are exercising with the very same right's they are trying to remove.
@@ct-gt2dtHate speech is one of many types of speeches that is explicitly prohibited by free speech. Along with: Hearsay Defamation Incitement of violence Child P*** Threats Threatening the president Blackmail Perjury Commercial speech on false pretenses Obscenities (can't wear porn shirt to school) Harassment Do I need to go on? Or do you get the point that some types of speech can by definition not be free? This was determined by the supreme Court over 100 years ago, when they ruled that obscenity, human sacrifice, etc, was not lawful practice of free speech. "In 1878, the Supreme Court was first called to interpret the extent of the Free Exercise Clause in Reynolds v. United States, as related to the prosecution of polygamy under federal law. The Supreme Court upheld Reynolds' conviction for bigamy, deciding that to do otherwise would provide constitutional protection for a gamut of religious beliefs, including those as extreme as human sacrifice. "
All citizens should have the right to speak up about concerns when they are treated wrong or there is a growing problem. When the government tries to stop them, you either remove the leaders or you leave the country and watch them burn from afar.
Try stopping a Communist government. You are a man of age, so you probably remember the Soviet Union. I remember the Chinese MMA fighter that challenged every single "martial artist" over there. They ruined him, socially and mentally. Just because he showed how fake most of the local martial arts are...
I always saw you as a person who loved China as a place and the wonderful people in it that are brainwashed and you want to help them understand a lot is wrong when they think things are fine.
this is not even close to communism, mate. This is straight up totalitarian regime. Markets are open for china and from china, so this is not a communism at all. The rullers of europe and usa are dreaming to set this system in our countries that's why they are going to summits to china that often.
@JoseGonzalez-wt1do as a fellow in commumist country aka Vietnam. i feel you, mate. i'd lowkey been stalked, investigated, monitored by underground cops or cyber-police by sharing an article perdicting the downfall of Vietnam's economy in 5 years on Facebook when the public dept is too high. They even contacted my headteacher in college to extract some crucial information of me. She that teacher then called my on my side phone's number which i'd not been the owner yet in order to avoid disturbing police investigation activities. She's the most caring generous teacher i have ever known, i admire her by that. i was just an unpopular fesher student at that point and still. i think they thought me a potential terrorist or sociapath or something in general which is terrible for society. Fast forwards till now after 4 years i've not done anything against the laws or even against morality but i really don't know what's going on like they're still stalking me but more careful and don't left any footprint so i don't know i've been stalked exactly like what hidden cameras do
Another day; another great video. Again, thank you for what you do. We don't deserve such great coverage and news about China and yet, you deliver. Stay awesome.
I am from India and it is very disheartening to see highschoolers mocking the assassination of Shin-jo-abe . The amount of hate filled in Chinese people is disgusting, this is very inhumane. I doubt if these are real humans or robots beneath human skin. 😢
Ikr! I admired shinjo Abe. I think usa is behind this because Mr Abe tried to free the japan from being puppet to most powerful nation. Both japan and South Korea are puppet states of usa. They can't take many decisions independently. Even Japanese constitution was created by usa and haven't been altered till today. World biggest 2 powers, both are bully -.-
I'm not a youtuber or anything, but I am a guy that moved to China and fell in love with it much in the same way that I think Winston did. I want to touch on something that I suspect is true for many people who felt forced to leave China for their own safety. My life in China was amazing. It was so different than growing up in small town America. So many new experiences, every day truly feels like an adventure, even after years of living there. I initially went for a year just for the experience, but I so fell in love with the country and the life there that I wanted to make it my home, I wanted to settle down there. Amidst all those adventures there were horrors, tragedies, injustices, mostly not happening to me but around me. You turn the blind eye to it initially, because hey no place is perfect and this is just the ways that China needs to improve, right. You can tell yourself that for years, you can truly make yourself believe it. Then one day it will come for you and those you care about. At that point you really only have two choices. You can deny reality and continue on living a lie hoping for the best, or you can accept that the Chinese people as a whole will never see you as Chinese and accept you fully as a human being as a result, and that you are constantly one step away from imminent peril as a result. I never wanted to leave China, I built a life there, a home, the beginnings of a family, and I had to make the terrible choice to leave it all behind. Honestly it broke me, I felt that my entire life was stolen from me, robbed from me when I did nothing wrong, in fact when I thought I was doing things right. I wasn't lucky enough to get my family out, I truly lost everything i'd been working for. It hit me so hard that here I am years later still not really recovered from it. It broke something inside me that can't be fixed. Going through an experience like that, the trauma it imbues on your heart and soul, it removes any remaining veil you may have had towards the CCP and what they do and stand for. It's just such a great sadness, knowing my own experience and being fully aware how much worse the Chinese people themselves are treated, people I loved and cared deeply for. I will speak out against the CCP for the remainder of my existence for my own personal loss and the awareness of the loss of so many others.
I am so sorry for your traumatizing experience. You chose the noble path and owned up to reality like Winston did. I also fled China but during the Shanghai lockdown last year. I hadn't made such connections there, though I loved teaching my university students there and was sad to leave them. Leaving China forever after having been locked down like an animal for months was an incredible feeling. The US felt soooooo *gentle* and *humane* in 2022 after China. I am soooooo grateful for my homeland and the rights that I have. Rights that I never genuinely appreciated before. What a gift that I wish more Americans would recognize and appreciate. God bless you and good for you speaking out against the CCP.
Adam, I'm so sorry for your loss. What a tragic and heartbreaking experience that must have been for you. Please be very gentle with yourself and know that it will take time to heal from these very deep wounds. I wish you all the best.
@@LaNina_DJ I've always been a devout believer in tough love. It was something I learned as a child through the whole 'give a man a fish feed him for a day, teach a man to fish feed him forever' story. I used to love life, I used to really enjoy other people, I used to look at a new day as a new adventure. Now i'm a coward, too fearful of loss to engage with people and form meaningful relationships, in fact I actively push people away. I can go days, sometimes even weeks without speaking to another human being. I both fear and long for my dreams because they are the only opportunity i'll ever have to see the love of my life again, but most of them turn into nightmares that are quite unsettling to put it mildly. I'm not even a functional human being at this point, at least to my standard of what constitutes being human. I don't say these things because I want or expect your pity. They are just simply my reality, and that's ok. I can accept that and exist until I don't. At least I got to be truly happy at a point in my life, and heck maybe that's enough. Ultimately it's entirely my fault that I was in a situation where I could lose everything so easily. Twas a foolish man who built his house upon the sand. I take full ownership for putting myself in this position. All that being said for a bit of context, I can tell you with confidence that I do not feel remotely grateful for being broken. I left the best parts of myself half a world away and that's not something i'll ever celebrate. I don't know that i'll ever get them back. Perhaps a stronger man could, but I've discovered the hard way that i'm not that guy. On a bright note though i've learned something from pondering your message. Tough love is just not the fix for deep-seated trauma. I don't know what is, but that's not it. I need to be more mindful of that when I interact with others. Thanks for that.
@@fs5775 I appreciate your perspective, but please don't think that i'm noble. I'm not noble. There is no honor in running away and leaving the love of your life, that which you should covet and protect above all else, behind. I'm glad to hear that you have a newfound appreciation for how special America really is. This is a time when that ideal is very much under assault, and we need voices of wisdom and conscience to speak up and be heard so that we don't allow the things that make America so special to be lost.
@@rebekahchalkley3252 Thank you for your kindness. You are right actually, it's really not easy to be gentle towards yourself. It's so true that we are our own worst enemy. It's easy to deal with bad things happening to me, at least for me. The hard part is coming to terms with the fact that my own foolishness put me in a situation where I lost so much, and that's a very bitter pill to swallow. It is what it is though, lol.
The more people know the truth about China and the Communist Party, the fewer kind people will be deceived, and the safer the world will be. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
funny, how this communism makes (real) 1st economy of the world today, including him trying to get job there (after looks like he failed in africa in u.s,). something must be wrong wit this theory..
They’re not communist the same way the nazis weren’t socialist. They call themselves that, but china is in fact even more capitalist than the USA. They hoard more wealth than Jeff Bezos
So true. I was stuck in dubai airport for 5 days and i talked to an emirate man. He said "im glad you are complaining. I would do the same but they will open a case on me and my whole family lives here." Ive never heard anything that sent chills down my spine so quickly.
Even staunch nationalists in western countries will criticize their governments. It leads to improvement. If you have a loved one, who is doing badly, you want to explain to them what the issue is, and help them to get better, because you love them, and see their potential, but if you can't criticise them, and point out what's wrong, they'll continue down a path of self destruction.
I wish there were more people like you in the world, just/righteous people who will not turn a blind eye to injustice and to victims of injustice. What you said about 'you want to ignore politics, but politics will ignore you' reminds me of the poem 'first they came...' from pastor Martin Niemoller. Keep up the good work mate and stay awesome!
"You may choose to ignore politics, but politics will not ignore you..." A valuable lesson I wish more people could learn. "If there is a problem, we talk about it. It may not be resolved, but it will never be if no one talk about it..." This is something not just China, but alot of Asian like myself never thought about it. To most asian, especially chinese. We will have this mindset of, "If we don't talk about it, then it never happened" or "We don't talk about it,let someone else solve it". Unfortunately, these has become a bad trait for us Chinese/Asians. And even if we came to realize it was a bad trait, we get put down by those who surround us immediately. Because "A nail that sticks out, will be hammered". However, I'm a lonewolf anyway. If I let those who surrounded me, decides who I am and what I am not. Then I am no longer me. And thank you @serpentza for choosing not to ignore what CCP/CPC has done, and speaks out for those who couldn't. Stay awesome~👍
America has changed too. Our freedoms are being slowly taken piece by piece with amendments here and there and slight rule and law changes. People are idiots not paying attention. Actually even if they're not idiots they are still oblivious to it because they are being kept so busy working and handling family lives etc. Basically always busy. Keep them busy and they won't notice the hanging noose being tightened around their necks.
That letter sent to your fam is the epitome of what happens to a society when they are constantly controlled and dictated to: They become nasty and petty, full of hubris, infantilized into a perpetual Karenhood with no ability (no option maybe!) of being able to self reflect.
that letter was shocking to read. whoever wrote that does not deserve to call themself a human being. they called wincent a dog... ironic, the ones who wrote that letter are 100x worse than dogs. disgusting low level brain rot hate fuelled hyper nationalistic puppets. Any chinese who does not understand the tyranny of the CCP is such. they need to grow a brain, and a pair, and do something. don't let the sacrifice in Tiananmen Square be for nothing.
It's always bothered me how much wasted potential China has. They have all the ingredients to genuinely become the best country on earth overnight, but the mass corruption and greed prevents it.
Average morning of Japanese middleschooler Vs Brainwashed Chinese middleschooler: Brainwashed Chinese student: -Wakes up late. -Runs down street with bao in mouth. -Is late for Shinzo Abe mock assassination. -First period Calculus at 10am. Japanese student: -Wakes up late. -Runs down street with toast in mouth. - _Is NOT late for mock Tianamen Square Massacre as no one would care to do such a thing._ -First period Calculus at 10am.
You’re doing amazing work and are helping Chinese people and world people to change for better and avaid potential human tragedies for all because of their immoral behaviours.
As a “skilled” tradesman in the states who works in construction I’m always fascinated by the Tofu Dreg construction of CCP China. It’s beyond dangerous and beyond greedy. It really takes “close enough for government work” to unexpected levels. Edit: where do you get your suits? They look great just sayin 👀
I've lived in Taiwan for more than 20 years now and I have had simiar experiences that you mention in your videos,e.g., racism, incompetent work, etc. When I would speak up about these things, often was told my opinion means nothing because I'm not Taiwanese and if I didn't like it, I should just go back to my own country. Although not perfect, things have gotten better for foreigners here in recent years. I hope you and your family find happiness in America. Good luck, brother. 🙂
Ah.. something to be expected on corporate world.. Not a particular country problem, Human were always full of power trip, jealousy and selfishness.. worst if you're not the "charismatic foreighner" and provide something to leverage their status this will happened quite often..
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Watching the video and pausing it for a moment.
I am really happy that you made this one. I only discovered these channels of you and laowhy86 several months ago (half a year maybe? Been watching every video since then and also watched most of the older ones) and even though it's pretty clear that what you guys talk about clearly are true and important, I never understood the focus on China (even though you both lived there for so long) and your determination to show the world what's going on there.
I never understood why this all is so absolutely important to you both, even though several topics clearly do affect the rest of the world.
I hope to get wiser from this video.
Continuing watching the video now. :-)
Sorry for the weird formulations; I'm not entirely sober anymore at this moment. :P
Edit: God dammit! @5:11 I was just taking another shot right at that moment! :D
Salute 🍻
Winston Sterzel is the South African Jason Statham.
Winston is a sexy beast
_"You can ignore politics, but politics will not ignore you."_ Truer words have never been spoken but it doesn't apply only to China.
It's like something I read once: So you're not into politics? Well, your boss is, your landlord is, your bank is, and all the more powerful people in your life are, too.
It’s not really politics but more like common sensE
Every one of these "deep truths" is just an inverted sentence
@@SeethingSimp That's like saying philosophy is just random thoughts, or math is just a bunch of numbers.
@@tedspens Hardly. I'm just saying sentences backwards doesn't make it profound.
The most ironic part is that by immediately and overwhelmingly trying to crush any criticism they're effectively admitting just how fragile and vulnerable they are.
Xi is a frightened little child. It should make for some exciting times....🤡
Well it has advantages and disadvantages. In democracy you have more rights but also way more bs is spreading. In a single party state less bs is spreading but you have less rights.
And with bs I mean something hurtful to the government.
@@heinrich6294As opposed to bs spread by the government, which is an awful lot from what I understand.
The Streisand effect.
They appear strong but know that they are weak.
As a Karelian descended, to whom we lost our village to the communism, my godmother always said this, which I agree to this day: "The first thing they'll do, is kill the truth".
kyl suomalaiset tietää miten venäjällä toimitaan. Elin tilaa moskovalaisille ja loput rintamalle sitä hankkimaan.
Killing the truth is rampant in the United States 😢
Love to Suomi from Ukraine 💙💛
Just like Israel killed the truth and committing a genocide
Just like Germany back in the day
Truth is a funny thing. If all people say the sky is green, and every people believed in it, then sky will be green.
If everyone believe that this lie is the truth, then that lie will become the truth.
If every family taught their kids that assassinating a president from another country is a funny thing, then everyone will laugh and that is become the norm.
Students re-enacting the assassination is crazy and very troubling.
@@米开朗菠萝 孩子們仍然不應該這樣做。
@@devindewet3876 你跟小日本说别排核污水去，这只是讽刺，并没有实质伤害，人家干的可是实打实的伤害全人类的事
@@devindewet3876Thats for sure. Chinese here and I'd tell you this is 100% not allowed in any school I know or could think if in China. However, random shit like this just happens, some young people in America celebrate 9/11. To be clear, I'm not trying to justify their actions, but some perhaps unfortunate kids just put themselves through things like this, it is what it is. Everyone assumes these people represent all of China despite the fact that they hardly represent their school....
@@danielliu1250 they do represent all China because that's how China are now not ancient China but modern China
My God unbelievable
Imagine how corrupted a nation's soul must be to derive laughter from an assassination, while their government cries crocodile tears at the slightest criticism.
Lmao, why are you acting like Abe did not deny the Japanese war crimes and has prayed infront of a mural of a Japanese war criminal.
What are the Chinese supposed to love Abe? Imagine if the German prime minister said the holocaust never happend.
Brainwashing at its finest.
Your acting like they have a choice which just isn't true.
It's a wholly evil society and has been for at least 100 years.
Eh...I mean, if you know the history between the two countries(Rape of Nanking) and all that, it isn't too surprising. China and S. Korea get along with Japan economically, but not all the citizenry have warm and fuzzy feelings about Japan. I don't think that's even a CCP condoned thing either. Abe and XI actually got along well, and Xi issued condolences upon his death. Yeah, doesn't mean much in politics, but still, it's something, and yeah, you'll still have the CCP kicking up anti-Japanese sentiment over the disputed islands and territorial waters.
Im Iranian and I get the same from ppl outside of Iran, they dont get that u can't simply "stand up" when the govt is literally mowing u down with ak47s in the streets, the fear of literal death is nothing to scoff at
This is why our second amendment is (right the bear arms) here in the US is so important. If you give up your means of self defense the government can do what it wants and you have no way to fight back. A lot of Americans think we should all give up that right but they only think that because times are relatively easy and peaceful. If times were tough like in your country or other countries they'd be glad to have a means of self defense. I pray one day the Iranian people will live free and peaceful. I'd love to visit Iran because of the food, people, and history but that's probably not a good idea because of the current government. Stay safe man.
@@TruthIsTheNewHate84 oh i love ur second amemdment, if only we had it in the first place the damn mess that is Iran wouldnt have existed, and if u ever come to Iran hit me up lol
@@knahdogg5769 ,Is it safe for a retired female and husband visit Iran? It is being my wish to see King Cyrus place.
I’m not being critical of having a gun. But does it help, when they say, we have your daughter. Now do what we want.
Good, we will release her, but we know where all your family members live, and work, etc?
Apparently, this is the approach to the protests, now that they have Chinese surveillance equipment.
Or have I heard wrong?
@@billpetersen298 yes it helps it’s called an insurgence. You don’t half ass a revolt. You go all the way. That means being an insurgent
We all have regrets Winston. But you have done far more than most anyone in bringing facts into the light.
Meanwhile Americans 'The tyrant government asked us to wear face mask!!'
@@allenl9214no one disappeared us for not wearing a mask. We were not welded into our apartments.
Stupid comparison
@@markmitchell457 exactly.. Stop bi****** about the life and every inconsequential thing ya'll have in America and enjoy it. You left and right wingers love to go against each other about everything it seems, like the car you drive, cost of coffee, color of your panties, everything
@@allenl9214what happened if you disobeyed?
He’s just a grifter that takes money from organizations like, Fulan Gong and American think tanks, that wants to see China fail.
Unable to take criticism is a sign of insecurity and weakness. Be it a person or a large nation. It means that they are unable to think critically and improve.
Sounds exactly like U.S. bipartisan politics
@@javiere.gonzalez1021 sounds like the majority of people
@@javiere.gonzalez1021did you actually compare chinas CCP to the US parties? Dude plz.
It goes deeper than that too. The entire Chinese perspective is baffling. If you go on say, Quora, you can interact with the Chinese public phase pretty heavily. Serpentza discusses well how it is in China, but one also must see how China views the rest of the world. They extrapolate the concept that you can't criticize China but also, that any country that does criticize or disagree with them is actually a puppet of China's enemies. What this indicates is that China does not believe in the sovereignty and agency of other countries.
Pin point accurate analysis. 👍
Serpentza: Child aduction is bad.
China: Who are you to say that?
Children practising firing mortars as part of their indoctrination is good though, apparently... : /
China: "how dare you?"
China: Yes, it is, we do know! But we don't need a foreigner to remind us of that.
China: We know, but we won't do shit about it.@@bjornm.1121
Also Serpentza: "China forced me to make negative videos about them"
Me: 🤔
Don't worry mate. I spent nine years in 3 provinces (Guangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian), I left in July.
I knew Chinese history and what had been done, but I thought that was in the past.
My day-to-day life wasn't really affected by the government, just a few "eye-roll moments"....T.I.C!
But slowly...a drip, drip, drip of mean, illogical, xenophobic policies handed down from the central CCP started to push into that life.
Leaving hurt. I loved my city, my job, my relationships, and the memories.
But the longer I stayed, the more I felt like a "mafia wife" (I know my husband does bad things, but I shut up and take the money)
Now working in Vietnam (authoritarian I know), but I don't need a VPN, Google APPS work, I haven't seen a camera or a cop in a month, and loads of Korean and Japanese products are available in the shops. Importantly, the people here are friendly, appreciate my help in developing their country, and don't treat me with suspicion.
Wait you had a sugar daddy in china? that a wild story
@@Yahula1edits No, China was their sugar daddy 💀
I worked with a lot of Vietnamese guys doing CNC work and they were some of the best people I've known
@@Yahula1edits he was just using the term "mafia wife" and explaining it
I understand how you feel. I moved to Japan after visiting 4 times previously and have been questioning my decision because the toll of bullshit slowly adds up. You don’t see it as a tourist and it’s maddening to live in a place that is so resistant to change regardless of how inefficient the system is.
Its baffling how so many people still think that China is all great and dandy. Open your eyes people...
Many are already starting to know the truth, but you know if they protest, they will get silenced and disappeared.
@hieveryone2003 nope
@hieveryone2003 No you're definitely wrong cause some child whose never left his hometown said so! Lol thanks for sharing your experience.
Doesn't stop westerners buying from temu and aliexpress.
@oShadowkun just because someone hasn't left their "house" doesn't mean they have to enjoy eating fried cockroaches.
Anyone who lives in a big metropolitan western city can see how Asian people are.
Apart from Japan I have absolutely no interest in visiting other Asian countries.
Reminds me of a joke from USSR. "You have no freedom! I can stand in our capital and yell "The US president is a crook." Russian: "Big deal. I can stand in our capital and yell the US leader is a crook, too."
Try to stir up a movement against Jewish finance see what happens to you
@@tianwong152 Well if your issue is the Jews then that's racism...
The United States spends billions of dollars every year to control the media to smear and spread rumors to demonize China. Believe that more will be needed in the next appropriation
@@TheJerbollegitimate criticism isn’t racism.
@@YagirlM when it's against a _race_ of people then yes, it is
Name a more iconic duo than LiveLeak and chinese construction workers
Pandemics and china’s inability to refrain from eating anything that moves?
Live leak and Indian roadway crashes.
BestGore
live gore
Worldstar and bl@ck people
As someone living in Japan (foreigner), I was not a fan of Shinzo Abe, but re-enacting the assassination at a Chinese high school... ??! That is insane!!! I am at a loss for words... What are they teaching their children ??! (the next generation)
I think this started because Japan let out the water from Fukushima nuclear plant, and china made a bunch of propaganda about it
Is it worse than what is being taught to very young children in first world countries by homosexual teachers, look at what is being demonstrated, taught to the nation's children.
你知道南京大屠杀吗？对于日本的仇恨是不能忘记的
@@lichaarcomendo History moves on and so should you.
@@kulbiznic9168it would depend on what you're talking about?
Yeah, speaking of adventure, in 2016 I took ground transportation only from London to Singapore, taking a hard right south out of Russia through Mongolia into China. I took my time with the whole trip taking several months.
And China was absolutely was love/hate. For one week I rented a motorcycle and "explored" and the level of poverty, destitution actually, that many Chinese live in was astonishing. I lived in Indonesia for one year, doing my PhD research living in a village, and the worst of China is less well-off than the worst of Indonesia.
It's also interesting, that Amazon took down your "conquering… China" series that I BOUGHT, and to this day they've given no explanation.
anyway, keep up the good work man. I've been a long time viewer.
Hi Iam from Indonesia, where's you stay in Indonesia for one year ?
Wow that's some train journey. Did you ever do a post about it?
Of course they took it down. You cannot criticize any group of non white people in the US. It is strictly and publicly forbidden. We have what are called “protected groups” in the US where you are not allowed to speak negatively about them. All non whites are considered protected. This is why discussion on the origin of Covid was immediately removed online. About 55% of the US would advocate for your death for criticizing China. I’m not kidding, this is how important race is to more than half of the country.
Amazon likes Chinese money too much, that's why they took it down, no doubt. There are a lot of U.S. based corporations who are in the pocket of China.
man i have travelled extensively round china many many times and its been epic every single time. challenging yes, but epic!
Thanks for the great video! This is why we Taiwanese really afraid to “reunite” with China. To us, tons of unbelievable evils happens to China everyday, and people ignore it. Good people in China will be silenced and the evil can speak and control the country, if this doesn’t change, China will impact not only their neighbors but whole world.😢
China should re-unite with Taiwan, but with Taiwan in full control, the way it should be ;-)
@@nuntana2See~~~China is a hell country! So invasive, so evil.
@@nuntana2 nahh. What would Taiwain want to do with them? Getting more people to vote for Kuomintang?
unfortunately a billion brainwashed refugees with barely any workplace skills with food and water insecurity and infrastructure issues isn't something Taiwan should burden itself with. The UK should take them instead since it started all this chaos centuries ago@@nuntana2
Taiwan should annex China if there was ever the so-called reunication
I was planning on going there a few years ago before I came across your content. You saved me a huge nightmare. Thank you 😊
My wife and I have landed in China several times to switch planes. One time we both got a rather bad food poisoning from just drinking Coca Cola there.
I wish I had discovered this channel earlier.
My brother has visited China several years ago and got poisoned in a local bar for extortion. Even when he was able to get out of there with great trouble, they followed him and tried to make sure he would pay a crazy amount of money for the taxi that he wanted to flee in.
I can tell the full story if you like?
@MarcelNL it would be interesting!
When I was younger, I always wanted to go to China. I even did a school report on the country. After finding out all this information, I never want to step a foot in there.
Sure!
He went there and at every historic place where he went to, he got elbows against his chest or belly from people who wanted to get inside there before a foreigner (which feels similar to my own experiences with chinese people on vacation in Asian countries like a very old tiny Chinese woman who pushed me back into the elevator because she wanted to get in when I was trying to get out.)
At some point he was just tired and thirsty and wanted to get a drink. He was aware of all the scammers and just decided to ask an old lady who was sitting at a street if there was a reliable place somewhere where he could get a drink.
The lady did speak English and in a very friendly manner she pointed him to a pub closeby.
My brother went inside and said that he did not need a bar lady, he also didn't want a special seat; he just wanted to sit at the bar and have a simple drink.
"You go sit there!", the bar lady said, and pointed at some seats in a corner.
- "But I don't want to pay for sitting there!", my brother said and after being reassured he went to sit there.
A bar lady came and hit him softly on his shoulder and said: "You buy me a drink!!!"
He clearly said he wasn't interested, and after multiple hits on the shoulder and the same line again, he told her clearly that he was not going to buy her a drink, so she just sat next to him, very grumpy.
(I will cut the story here because on TH-cam, long stories often get deleted. Will continue quickly.)
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Continuing!
So my brother got his simple drink (cola or whatever it was) and he really felt something was wrong.
The bar lady started again to harrass him for buying her a drink and he just decided to pour down the drink down his throat as quickly as he could and he jumped up asking for the bill.
Th bar lady pulled him down to his seat and told him to calm down and sit with her for a while.
He smelled trouble and got up again and wanted to get away, but she pulled him down again for another drink.
This went on and on for a while and at some point he started to feel a bit dizzy.
Was he poisoned or something?
And then he got the bill. I forgot the exact amount but it was several hundreds of dollars, maybe close to a thousand!
He shouted at the tiny old female owner (who was standing in front of him) what the efffff this was all about and saw in the bill that it was for the drink, the service of bringing the drink to him, the seat, the company of the bar lady, the mandatory drinks that he had to buy for the bar lady etc etc etc.
(Cutting the reply again because I'd hate it if everything would get deleted.)
We had an ethics component in nursing school because so many of the cadavers sent to the college from countries like Pakistan were murdered older relatives who wanted the money paid for the corpse. One of the subjects we covered were the selling of organs taken from political prisoners in china without the use of anesthesia. You can't take an organ from a dead person. They need oxygen to be useful, so the donor has to at least be breathing. Is it ethical to receive organs taken from living political prisoners in chana? No. After I graduated there was this traveling show from china of real bodies that had been plasticized. They were bodies of young people in different positions with their skin removed and all organs and muscles plasticized with glass eyes. I didn't go to see them even though friends told me it was interesting because all I could think was, "are these political prisoners who've been plasticized and sold?" It's heartbreaking. In china the very citizens themselves are a commodity, a resource to the government.
Wasn’t there a similar exhibit here in the states? I could’ve sworn there was an exhibit for sometime educating people about human anatomy….
But yeah, I wouldn’t trust the Chinese with something like that. Most certainly were victims of some horrid act.
Ouch! It’s totally awful and disgusting, what they do to their own people in China. There’s a interview on TH-cam, from a Chinese surgeon, who in the late 90s. He was forced to do organ harvesting in a small town. Outside of the prying eyes. He didn’t know what he was getting himself into. Until it was too late. And he couldn’t say no. It traumatized him. That he finally fled China. He now lives in the UK. Being like a taxi driver, or something like that. And he says he doesn’t regret it still. That shows, how horrified he truly was. It’s horrifically sad. This needs to be spoken out loudly, and not covered up by China’s force onto our countries. China bullies, all of the western countries, to be quiet. Yet they attack us all the time. And we do nothing about it and allow them to do it. it’s total BS!
Needs to stop now!
Yeah I remember that exhibit. I can't believe people allowed it to show
This is the mindset of the WEF crew and the like. The politicians are just pawns for the ones pulling strings above them.. think.. who puts these people in those positions?
All comrades are equal in the eyes of the CPC, now turn and face the wall....
As an Chinese i wanna appreciate you continuous effort on criticizing the dark side of our society you make us better and better keep up with your work mate!
I don't know if you're living in China but I'm curious about the "social credit" system, is it real or just fabricated by western media?
@@Gonnie6969 i spent my first 20 yrs in China now im live in Australia which is my second home. The only credit system which being using in China is financially related there is nothing to do with you social activities.
Really?
@@vrushalishende7437 That's true. The thing is, CCP just don't need such a system to punish you. They can do what they want, at any time, as always. So why whould they use a system to limit themselves?
@@tonychen9549 Hope you don't want to go back there because you're on a list now 😂
Just stumbled across your channel, eye opening, thank you for having the courage to speak up for others who can't. Subscribed.
Unlike China, you can criticize your country and government in America and most other Western countries. No country is perfect and that includes America. America could not get to where it is today without the countless critics over the centuries being heard. Even the most patriotic "Proud to be American" individual has plenty of criticisms of America. Chances are, if you have something to criticize about America, you're probably not the only person with that criticism and although not every criticism will be heard and lead to change for the better in America, you at least have a chance to voice it and hope it'll lead to something better, unlike in China.
That made me think about how certain people seem to antagonize the culture and the people, but worship the government, and frame anything that critical of the government and critical of authority "conspiracy".
We live in very strange times.
Try doing that in Latin America, suddenly you'll get the same treatment complained of here. But Latin America is capitalist... so? What conclusion does that lead to?
"Unlike China, you can criticize your country and government in America and most other Western countries."
You can criticize China as long as you keep it your private opinion. But as soon you go public with your private opinion you will get yourself into trouble. So, you can have wonderful discussions about politics, human rights, religion and things more like that with friends and family. But don't do that in a public space e.g. as a teacher at a school.
"You at least have a chance to voice it and hope it'll lead to something better, unlike in China."
That is true! As said: as soon as you go public (= voicing it) you will have to face the consequences in China. Those won't be severe from the start, but as often as you repeatedly keep on going public with your critics the more severe the consequences will become.
The only reason you can criticize the government in the West is because nothing ever comes of it and the people in power know it.
@@bjornm.1121 another words, you can talk to your self all you want, once you voice your opinion to anyone, you risk being snitched
Good for you, Wilson. You're maturing. The quote you used is a loose translation from the Greek Philosopher Pericles (You can ignore politics, but politics will not ignore you). There's also some great ones from Voltaire:
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong"
and
"Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
Thank you for speaking the truth! You have my respect!
It's good to hear you purge the pent up frustrations you acquired over the years you sent there. It's got to be therapeutic.
Damn.
We need that Cultivate extension for the UK Amazon store.
Im so fed up with buying something from Amazon only to find out when it arrives that I've bought a cheap Chinese knockoff.
I’m sure it still works to tell you where a product is from?
@@serpentzaSir, Salute to you. But why you only talk about China? Why not about North Korea? North Korea is about 1000 times worse than China. Why are you silent on North Korea, Sir? May we know?
This "Cultivate" extension sounds useful.
Thank you from a Scandinavian. Very impressive effort, for the good of ALL of us. Stay awesome my friend.
I thank you for standing up for those who can’t stand up for themselves and providing them a voice.
On my first of 2 trips to Tibet we were invited into local homes. I was surprised to see an enormous photo (wall sized) of Chairman Mao. Each home was required by law to have this in their home. Also, if any items showing the Dali Lama were found they would be severely punished. This was 100’s of kilometers from any large city. I questioned ‘how would they know’? And was told periodically send out squads even to remote areas to check. Also, in Lhasa, we were constantly followed by secret police. They are ridiculously obvious, but we were warned to watch what we said. This was in 2006 & I think it is much worse now with AI recognition.
Don't use your ‘pride’ and racial superiority to judge Tibet. I work in Tibet. Like the locals, I hope to live a happy life. In fact, except for the high altitude, everything about us is GOOD.
You earned me as a subscriber with this one, lad. Look…it’s scary to speak up. Wherever you are. Cheers for finding a voice for reality. Stay strong.
With this one . If you look at his content it's always abt being informative and explosive by being blunt no bs attitude abt China . He is very articulate and brave . Also considering his past experiences it's jus unreal it's full of thrill and adventure.
@@itsbonkerjojo9028 what I really respect is that he acknowledged he was too timid to bring it up in the past. And explaining how his family suffered. I work in a painful field and if I ever put my spouse in danger I’ll blame myself a lot…but I hope I will not quit. We all have a duty
And I hope his chinese wife and child stay safe from that government 😢
I noticed you’re having a lot more views nowadays. Keep it up!
It’s extremely hard to see a foreigner to speak out for the Chinese. If a foreigner propagandized China, he can get very rich and comfortable.
And his name is JOHN CENA! 🎉
Completely utterly pointless and BS HAHAHAHAHA LOL 😃😃😃😃😂😂😂😂👎👎👎👎!!!
The west is pretty much the same at this point
A Ieft wang tyranny
Especially in canada
Thank you for loving the Chinese people and caring enough to tell the true and making these entertaining videos. You have a real gift
Being Russian in Russia speaking out against the war in Ukraine I very well understand the topic of this video.
We have lost our civil rights to protest here in Russia.
The court have awarded me with severe fines twice for publicly criticizing Russian army, and I am afraid to speak more, because the next case would be a criminal offence with a possible jail time, not just a fine.
Sad times have came to Russia. We had rights to speak openly during the 1990s and 2010s after the terrible USSR has collapsed, but not anymore. The feeling is like the modern variation of USSR is slowly taking its grip over Russia and Belarus...
Been following you for years, man. I hope that some day China opens up so people like us can go back to experience the safe, wonderful place it is.
I just wanted to let you know that your channel has had a real impact on me and no doubt countless others. I took stock and realized that my awareness of China's issues is probably more than half due to your coverage, and this is without even being a subscriber and without making any focused effort to absorb this content. Over the years it has simply seeped through, and that's a testament to a lot of diligent and hard work on your end.
It's funny. I came to South Africa lately to study, and during one of the lessons that was all about discussing all kinds of societal problems, I was criticized that I shouldn't be allowed to speak, because I'm a foreigner. It was very startling.
South Africa is a trash heap. Not like it matters what the societal issues are from the perspective of a foreigner.
God forbid, did you go there because they had something you really needed academically...
You can study Mandarin in Taiwan instead
This is about Chiba not Africa.
@@NinaHosanait is saying. It's same everywhere. Freedom is a myth in most countries
Cos the Chinese have infiltrated Africa.
Thanks!
When I lived in China with my Chinese wife, we would make sure to avoid any protests we would see. At first I would want to see what they were protesting about, but we decided that it was not safe to be seen at a protest, even if we were not protesting. I saw many parents where their kids were stolen and they were running around frantically looking for them. Very sad to see. My wife keeps our daughter close by us at all times when we are in China. My wife does not like that I even make comments like this about China from the US on TH-cam because she fears that it might cause problems for her family in China, or prevent us from being able to visit, if they figure out who I am.
Does Chinese authorities crack down on kidnappers? Find kids? Return them to parents?
@@joyeternal2314 I have never seen it. But that does not mean it does or does not happen, because lots of stuff goes on in China that I have no idea is happening around me.
I stand by you
Yea that sucks and sounds stressful. Hopefully your youtube handle doesn't actually contain your name..seeing as your commenting on the subject matter that they probably routinely sift thru (maybe)
@@essadis I bet they have people working at TH-cam though that could probably cross reference the account to the email, and then from there, you can track down who the person is. If they figure it out, they figure it out. I can't see her family getting into too much trouble because I make some random comments on the internet. Now if I had a YT channel like this, they would definitely cause some problems.
I'm glad you got out safely and didn't disappear. God bless
The fact that we get free China videos on TH-cam by Serpentza is truly a gift 👏👏👏
谢谢你这么勇敢，这么有良知。
I'm grateful for the content you create, it helps so many people understand what is really going on in China. Before discovering you i had no idea of the lenghts the CCP are willing to go to just to save their own face, its ridiculous. Now im quite informed about these topics and yet constantly learning more, thanks to you.
Thank you so much for showing us the truth and keeping your integrity!!!
1:20 I remember seeing those old first videos also. I never thought that bad about China until I arrived in China.
My father is from Dominican Republic. His father (my grandfather) spoke out against the US backed dictator, Trujillo. They had to flee because the penalty for that was prison, death, rape of daughters and wife etc. so they came to USA when my dad was 9 to seek asylum. Many Americans are still oblivious to how our own government helps back these dictators. And turn a blind eye to evil all for $$$$$$$
Position of authority and power always attract corrupt and Sociopathic people.
This will always be the case. It's crazy that just by the very nature of our system, the people making the biggest decision wouldn't feel any suffering if they ordered the death of millions, so long it doesn't personally hurt themselves.
Do you think you could safely return? Or would they hold a grudge after all these years?
I am sorry that happened. The answer to why is very simple the USA lost the war against communism. And yes most of this started in the 1920s, even still there is a massive push to destroy the nuclear family and indoctrinate out children it's cultural Marxism 101.
It's impossible to destroy America by martial means, but to destroy a culture one generation at a time is not so impossible.
The real US history doesn't get taught in Highschool because if it was then once those kids were able to vote those in power would quickly find themselves out of power. The amount of what I consider crimes against humanity committed by the CIA on behalf of not the people but corporations and the 1 percent is truly sickening. Most of the horrors that have occurred in South America are a direct result of the CIA funding and training monsters who would tow the line the CIA wanted.
Thank the Capitalists.
My friend, I hear you. When I was only 29 I went to Wuhan for a year to teach English and that experience was enough to scar me for life. When I came back home I was completely changed, I saw the whole world in a new perspective. It's been almost two decades since then, but hearing everything you were saying brought me right back to those days. I agree with all that you've said and it is a behemoth of a task, but I do believe in miracles and I pray every day that the wonderful kids and friends that I made in China will someday live a free life. Thank you for showing this, it DOES need to be talked about. Much love and respect from Canada.
Was it just like living in a completely different environment that changed your perception of the world? As like living in a poorer region? Or was it something else? Sorry I am just really interested :)
@@karlebersberger2835 somewhat different, but seeing a person get shot on the street in South America - more than once, changed me for sure. in comparison with Europe where I have seen that not even once
I have lived 4 years there, including Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and some other, peaceful, places
What an ignorance speaking, do you know what chinese think indeed, do you know why this guy filled with hatred toward China, while he had said "China saved his life" after lived in China serveral years. Do you know why? True FUNNY.
@@xbender521 I have seen far more hatred on CGTN + comments, etc. than here....far more.
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tell us what he says about China that isn’t true then. 🤡
you don’t like him because he exposes your dirty laundries. 😂
IT IS SO GOOD TO FINALLY SEE SOMEBODY EXPOSE AMAZON
SOOOO many knockoff products on that site. Almost indistinguishable from the real ones but will often fail much faster or sometimes even be dangerous. Samsung and iPhone chargers have been a big one for a long time, they look authentic but some have even caught on fire on a few occasions.
amazon ended my 20+ employee business by ordering knockoffs from china and selling the cheap crap on amazon. It's a real thing and I watched it happen.
@@greenmoxyyes there are countless stories about this. It's quite awful and I'm sorry they did that to you.
@@masturbates I just retired early then planned. The upsetting part was it hurt my employees and on a small scale this country.
@@greenmoxy you're one of the lucky ones then. That's really unfortunate about your employees. Small businesses often take much better care of people than these monstrous corps.
Probably the most honest and real TH-cam I have ever encountered and the fact he still feels so absolutely bad for criticism that the Chinese government and Xi deserve is admirable. This man absolutely loves China and it's people the way he wants to share, show and explain the culture in a positive light but it shows you are also extremely troubled and worried about Chinas future under the CCP. You would never dedicate your entire adult hobbies and existence? Not whole existence but a significant amount of free time between you and laowhy86. It's a love for what China could be and can be. It definitely shows in your early videos kinda like a boyish charm or whatever they call it.....then reality over time, of how Xi and company can be. Extreme props to you for showing initially how absolutely amazing China can be and even more extreme props for doubling down and not being bullied by exposing how corrupt it is. Stay awesome you inspire me to stay awesome
Thanks for all you report on! Keep your family safe dude 🙏 ❤️
We all change. I am ashamed of the man I was at 25. There is no shame in being a better man than you were. Growing as a person and seeing points in the world you were blind to is what makes us better than animals.
What were you like at 25?
bro did something i guess@@chrystianaw8256
@@chrystianaw8256What were you like at 25? Or 16?
Right. I hope I'm a better man at 70 than I am in my 40s. The body diminishes, but the man keeps growing.
@@TheDragonSeerWhat were you like at 20 or 10?
Keep your conscience alive bro, you are doing humanity a service
And keeping our conscience awake as well.
Why would anyone want this on their conscience? I'm going to forget about this soon as I click to the next video
It's sad that such a vast amount of our world's population lives under such oppressive conditions.
Absolutely depressing and makes me thankful for all I have and the life I’ve had.
China is just one of 196 countries
@@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv china is best of 196 countries
@@zacksmith5963 ...but i guess you have to say that.
@@luceatlux7087 prove me wrong
The clip featuring the act of assassination of former Prime minister of Japan was nuts.. Can't imagine doing this even for a enemy country..
"Can't imagine doing this...." What is worse ? Re-enacting a past assassination, or continuing with actual covert 'regime change' against foreign countries including the murder, imprisonment or exile of their prime ministers and presidents ? From Iran (1953) through to Ukraine (2014) to Pakistan (2023). Where is your sense of self-criticism and morality ?
@@cosimo7770Why the hell are you blaming me for the events which were not in my control? Why would I self criticize myself.. For what? I don't get your view..
And also I am not an American, if it was a doubt.
@@summerain6918 Listen brother, I am from India and you don't even have to look up on Google about our historical relation with Britain, But I never laugh on death of their queen/king and prime minister..
"All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke
My nephew has a similar story. Worked in the food business in China, and taught English (he was fluent in Chinese) in addition to his “day” job primarily exporting food to the US. He absolutely loved his time (13yrs in country), however approximately 2 years prior to the Beijing Olympics, he and a friend were walking by the Birds Nest and he took a photo on his iPhone and quite literally was deported on the spot. He was advised don’t even think about returning until after the Olympics. He left with his girlfriend who was a high powered CEO of a German clothing company with access to exceptional counsel, to no avail. They tried returning a week later from Thailand and we denied entry. My nephew and his boss in Beijing were somewhat well connected here in the US and even the state department failed to gain entry. It’s been many years and he’s not returned since that episode. He loved all the good things you speak of, condemned the bad privately for his protection. All that for 1 simple picture, but they must have been paranoid about any disruptions at the Birds Nest.
The Birds Nest is a sports stadium for those wondering what it was. Had to google it.
Ah yes, the totalitarian regimes are great for the people at the top, ripping benefits. Including wealthy, connected foreigners. Up until someone decides you should not be at the top anymore.
You gave way too many details here that he and his girlfriend can be identified…..
0:00 I'm honestly surprised by how thin they managed to make that veneer, looks like they're turning corner-cutting into a fine traditional art.
Your channel brings to the world what news on TV don't. Lots of respect for your engagement defending realities. Keep it up Winston.
I enjoy your content, very thought provoking. I am an immigrant-turned-citizen in the US, and you are entitled to criticize legitimate concerns. I totally understand the expectation of the Western folks to just be able to freely stand and voice your discontent. It isn't like that elsewhere, and I don't fault the Westerners for their expectation at all. I came from the post Soviet space and there was little civility there and what you say about China was a similar circumstance in Russia.
Honesty is a burden. Ignorance a blessing. Thank you for your unbiased reports on China south Africa. Your honesty forces you to be a critic of the CCP.
Unbiased LOL
@@WillBryant-tn8sz he is talking based on his experiences. he sounds biased to people who don't want to accept the truth like you pathetic LOL
These two are feeding you lies for money. Be careful@ChokeYourChicken
I always called them “the three T’s”. Tibet, Taiwan, and Tiananmen Square. The 3 things you were not supposed to talk about in China.
I had a good friend who experienced what happened in Tiananmen Square. He told me about it very cautiously. He lost several friends
Winston, that email written to you was revolting. I can't believe there are people out there willing to write such disgusting, harmful and disparaging things. I'm sorry you had to go through that. 萬歲。
seriously. people exist that write stuff like that is so shocking to me. and the fact that he claims the letter to be from "the people of china". dog is dipping his entire people in his own dogwater.
It's communism what do you expect
you should visit china or south korea one day. I have lived in paris and london suburbs so i already knew, thanks to algerians and africans, that humans could be very uneducated, honorless and act like filthy maggots BUT it's only in Asia that I could see the standards being even lower ....
China shall be famous in the world...for their spammers and scammers
We are living very disturbing times Winston!
I remember i ran into a Chinese person once on VRChat and i started asking them questions. They acted like a ran over their dog or murdered one of their family members attacking me insulting me. Saying i was a "nosey American" when im Canadian really.
For many there, you are a "brainwashed" westerner. 😂 or maybe even a spy
I'm not saying that you're nosey, but, in fact, you are american... Canada is in America, isn't it ?
@@zeazevedo
Yes but no Canadian calls themself American.
@@Adan-dl7bt Why not? Not trying to be a smartass, i'd really like to know... I'm from Portugal so I'm Portuguese, but I'm also European since Portugal is in Europe. And, by the way, I'm also Iberian, since Portugal is on the Iberian Peninsula. I'm a lot of things :)
@@zeazevedo Cause its colloquially known that Americans are referring to USA
Thank you thank you and thank you, for your honesty and experience.
As an Australian, I am proud that you have relatives here. I don't think bad of you for speaking the truth. I thank you for it.
A channel filled with the propaganda of hatred, Serpentza had ever said "China saved my life" gratefully after lived in China several years, while he forgot it quickly.
Each country has problems, so does China. Each one should know China has far better infrustructure and security than United States.
As a human being living in this beautiful planet, we'd better showing more welblessings to the other people, less curses or hatreds.
@@xbender521China has far better infrastructure and security? Really? Explain why the chinese haven't moved into these tall buildings? Over 300 million can move into yet they can't. Explain why these buildings are falling apart? And about the better security. Its a communist totalitarian country. CCP invested billions upon billions to monitor, control, watch, and dictate its people. I already hear chinese rich moving its money out of the country and hundreds chinese illegally entering the US. Why? Because they know mainland China sucks!
What bullshit saying "china has better infrastructure and better security". When you see buildings, roads, and bridges falling apart after 3 years being built. And better security when I hear thousands of chinese escaping to the west especially rich chinese finding ways to move its money out of China. I seen the videos, heard the witness. Yet this bullshitter spewing lies. Be lucky I dont meet you in person. I hate CCP supporters.
@@xbender521they’re a communist country that only afford freedoms to the rich. There is nothing redeeming about this nation why don’t you move there ?
lol@@xbender521
@@xbender521Oh come on already. Criticizing about some aspect of society, doesn't mean hating society as a whole.
I can’t fathom how you endured living for so long in China. I lived in 5 continents for years, I traveled 4 times to India without never being blind to its issues, and yet going back and enjoying the trip…. But I came back from a 2 weeks trip from China traumatized ! It’s like looking in a very dark deep well! Not kidding, after a couple of days I had the chills in my backbone like the sense of an perpetual imminent danger…. and I was such an admirer of Chinese culture before that !
I have a similar background and felt the same about China
That’s what communism does to a society. After ccp inevitably fails, Chinese society will have such a long way to recover, but, unfortunately, damage done to the environment is irreversible, not on a human life scale at least
All that assuming china will survive the ccp collapse and not immediately go into the biggest civil war of the 21th century or, possibly, ever
@@TheKrilliys Well, trust me, I traveled to Cuba decades ago, and didn’t had such feelings… so it has nothing to do with communism… it’s a all different issue ! Besides, the CCP has no longer anything to do with communism, the capitalist fox has been given total free range in that chicken coop!
And yet I should insist on the fact that nothing special happened to me, but there’s something like « inhumane « about the atmosphere !
@@icitlalistardust9060 oh it sure does. Communism and repressions are inseparable. The thing you've mentioned that "felt inhumane" is the absence of freedom. I've felt it in 2016 when visiting russia, you really *can* smell it in the air.
Cuba's just so much smaller compared to china or russia so it's probably not as apparent there
They taught and encouraged kids to be hateful against those they don’t like. Love the truths you revealed. Love the freedoms we have. People need to stand up for their rights or they will be living in the prison all their lives so their next generations. Support you always!
No government is above criticism.
Sir, thank you and your compatriot for your positive contributions to not only China, but to the world at large.
Stay awesome.
It's not just the fanatical dogma/patriotism behind them saying foreigners can never criticise China. It's also good old fashioned racism. I discovered many years ago how rife racism is there. They like foreign money, but nothing else about foreigners.
Oh they like foreign IP too. Loads. Because it's foreign know-how which is making them that money.
Wish Germans were more like Chinese. We're getting replaced by stinky foreigners.
Good on the Chinese for not allowing that.
ultra nationalism is always used by non democratic parties
Man you take such a great personal risk but history will remember you for your contributions to humanity. What you are doing is very honorable and so many governments need this level of exposure in order for humans to have a chance at the paradise that is actually very possible. Thank you for what you show people because once we see a thing, and can discuss it openly, we have a tremendous opportunity to then solve those problems. I’m just very grateful to your cause. 🌟
Recently discovered your videos, really amazed as it reminds me my time there ! I spent 12 years in China, teaching project management to companies, but also having personal seminars of photography and publishing a magazine… 12 years of adventures creating a small company with 12 people, participating to shows, etc…This was a really good period of time and seeing how is China/Beijing nowadays I am not sure this could be done again now ! However, thank you for your out of heart videos ! Best, Chris
Always felt a terrible irony when I see people protesting the constitution here in the US and advocating for the government to police speech when they don't realize they are exercising with the very same right's they are trying to remove.
No one is advocating for the government to police speech
Karl called those types useful...
To be fair he also called them idiots...
@@nomanejane5766👎 you’re so naïve
@@nomanejane5766What country are you in? Many people in Western countries might want to move there.
@@ct-gt2dtHate speech is one of many types of speeches that is explicitly prohibited by free speech. Along with:
Hearsay
Defamation
Incitement of violence
Child P***
Threats
Threatening the president
Blackmail
Perjury
Commercial speech on false pretenses
Obscenities (can't wear porn shirt to school)
Harassment
Do I need to go on? Or do you get the point that some types of speech can by definition not be free?
This was determined by the supreme Court over 100 years ago, when they ruled that obscenity, human sacrifice, etc, was not lawful practice of free speech.
"In 1878, the Supreme Court was first called to interpret the extent of the Free Exercise Clause in Reynolds v. United States, as related to the prosecution of polygamy under federal law. The Supreme Court upheld Reynolds' conviction for bigamy, deciding that to do otherwise would provide constitutional protection for a gamut of religious beliefs, including those as extreme as human sacrifice. "
All citizens should have the right to speak up about concerns when they are treated wrong or there is a growing problem. When the government tries to stop them, you either remove the leaders or you leave the country and watch them burn from afar.
We can't even do that effectively in the USA, so imagine trying to start a movement there
Try stopping a Communist government.
You are a man of age, so you probably remember the Soviet Union.
I remember the Chinese MMA fighter that challenged every single "martial artist" over there.
They ruined him, socially and mentally. Just because he showed how fake most of the local martial arts are...
You are performing a valuable service my friend.
DECADES OF OPPRESSION LEADS TO SIGNIFICANT MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS 😢😢😢
I always saw you as a person who loved China as a place and the wonderful people in it that are brainwashed and you want to help them understand a lot is wrong when they think things are fine.
Im Cuban and I certify this video as to what communism truly is.
this is not even close to communism, mate. This is straight up totalitarian regime. Markets are open for china and from china, so this is not a communism at all. The rullers of europe and usa are dreaming to set this system in our countries that's why they are going to summits to china that often.
¡Viva Cuba Libre!!
Your voice is more important than you realize. Americans need to hear it.
@JoseGonzalez-wt1do as a fellow in commumist country aka Vietnam. i feel you, mate. i'd lowkey been stalked, investigated, monitored by underground cops or cyber-police by sharing an article perdicting the downfall of Vietnam's economy in 5 years on Facebook when the public dept is too high. They even contacted my headteacher in college to extract some crucial information of me. She that teacher then called my on my side phone's number which i'd not been the owner yet in order to avoid disturbing police investigation activities. She's the most caring generous teacher i have ever known, i admire her by that. i was just an unpopular fesher student at that point and still. i think they thought me a potential terrorist or sociapath or something in general which is terrible for society. Fast forwards till now after 4 years i've not done anything against the laws or even against morality but i really don't know what's going on like they're still stalking me but more careful and don't left any footprint so i don't know i've been stalked exactly like what hidden cameras do
The CCP is as far away from real communism as the US
Another day; another great video. Again, thank you for what you do. We don't deserve such great coverage and news about China and yet, you deliver.
Stay awesome.
I am from India and it is very disheartening to see highschoolers mocking the assassination of Shin-jo-abe . The amount of hate filled in Chinese people is disgusting, this is very inhumane. I doubt if these are real humans or robots beneath human skin. 😢
brainwashed from age 0
Robots😢
Ikr! I admired shinjo Abe. I think usa is behind this because Mr Abe tried to free the japan from being puppet to most powerful nation. Both japan and South Korea are puppet states of usa. They can't take many decisions independently. Even Japanese constitution was created by usa and haven't been altered till today. World biggest 2 powers, both are bully -.-
Abe was trash
@@MagicDonut00Winnie the Poo is 💩 😂
I'm not a youtuber or anything, but I am a guy that moved to China and fell in love with it much in the same way that I think Winston did. I want to touch on something that I suspect is true for many people who felt forced to leave China for their own safety. My life in China was amazing. It was so different than growing up in small town America. So many new experiences, every day truly feels like an adventure, even after years of living there. I initially went for a year just for the experience, but I so fell in love with the country and the life there that I wanted to make it my home, I wanted to settle down there.
Amidst all those adventures there were horrors, tragedies, injustices, mostly not happening to me but around me. You turn the blind eye to it initially, because hey no place is perfect and this is just the ways that China needs to improve, right. You can tell yourself that for years, you can truly make yourself believe it. Then one day it will come for you and those you care about. At that point you really only have two choices. You can deny reality and continue on living a lie hoping for the best, or you can accept that the Chinese people as a whole will never see you as Chinese and accept you fully as a human being as a result, and that you are constantly one step away from imminent peril as a result.
I never wanted to leave China, I built a life there, a home, the beginnings of a family, and I had to make the terrible choice to leave it all behind. Honestly it broke me, I felt that my entire life was stolen from me, robbed from me when I did nothing wrong, in fact when I thought I was doing things right. I wasn't lucky enough to get my family out, I truly lost everything i'd been working for. It hit me so hard that here I am years later still not really recovered from it. It broke something inside me that can't be fixed. Going through an experience like that, the trauma it imbues on your heart and soul, it removes any remaining veil you may have had towards the CCP and what they do and stand for. It's just such a great sadness, knowing my own experience and being fully aware how much worse the Chinese people themselves are treated, people I loved and cared deeply for. I will speak out against the CCP for the remainder of my existence for my own personal loss and the awareness of the loss of so many others.
I am so sorry for your traumatizing experience. You chose the noble path and owned up to reality like Winston did. I also fled China but during the Shanghai lockdown last year. I hadn't made such connections there, though I loved teaching my university students there and was sad to leave them. Leaving China forever after having been locked down like an animal for months was an incredible feeling. The US felt soooooo *gentle* and *humane* in 2022 after China. I am soooooo grateful for my homeland and the rights that I have. Rights that I never genuinely appreciated before. What a gift that I wish more Americans would recognize and appreciate. God bless you and good for you speaking out against the CCP.
Adam, I'm so sorry for your loss. What a tragic and heartbreaking experience that must have been for you. Please be very gentle with yourself and know that it will take time to heal from these very deep wounds. I wish you all the best.
@@LaNina_DJ I've always been a devout believer in tough love. It was something I learned as a child through the whole 'give a man a fish feed him for a day, teach a man to fish feed him forever' story. I used to love life, I used to really enjoy other people, I used to look at a new day as a new adventure. Now i'm a coward, too fearful of loss to engage with people and form meaningful relationships, in fact I actively push people away. I can go days, sometimes even weeks without speaking to another human being. I both fear and long for my dreams because they are the only opportunity i'll ever have to see the love of my life again, but most of them turn into nightmares that are quite unsettling to put it mildly. I'm not even a functional human being at this point, at least to my standard of what constitutes being human. I don't say these things because I want or expect your pity. They are just simply my reality, and that's ok. I can accept that and exist until I don't. At least I got to be truly happy at a point in my life, and heck maybe that's enough. Ultimately it's entirely my fault that I was in a situation where I could lose everything so easily. Twas a foolish man who built his house upon the sand. I take full ownership for putting myself in this position.
All that being said for a bit of context, I can tell you with confidence that I do not feel remotely grateful for being broken. I left the best parts of myself half a world away and that's not something i'll ever celebrate. I don't know that i'll ever get them back. Perhaps a stronger man could, but I've discovered the hard way that i'm not that guy. On a bright note though i've learned something from pondering your message. Tough love is just not the fix for deep-seated trauma. I don't know what is, but that's not it. I need to be more mindful of that when I interact with others. Thanks for that.
@@fs5775 I appreciate your perspective, but please don't think that i'm noble. I'm not noble. There is no honor in running away and leaving the love of your life, that which you should covet and protect above all else, behind. I'm glad to hear that you have a newfound appreciation for how special America really is. This is a time when that ideal is very much under assault, and we need voices of wisdom and conscience to speak up and be heard so that we don't allow the things that make America so special to be lost.
@@rebekahchalkley3252 Thank you for your kindness. You are right actually, it's really not easy to be gentle towards yourself. It's so true that we are our own worst enemy. It's easy to deal with bad things happening to me, at least for me. The hard part is coming to terms with the fact that my own foolishness put me in a situation where I lost so much, and that's a very bitter pill to swallow. It is what it is though, lol.
Your early video confronting the person using a child to beg for money...respect.
The more people know the truth about China and the Communist Party, the fewer kind people will be deceived, and the safer the world will be.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
funny, how this communism makes (real) 1st economy of the world today, including him trying to get job there (after looks like he failed in africa in u.s,). something must be wrong wit this theory..
They’re not communist the same way the nazis weren’t socialist. They call themselves that, but china is in fact even more capitalist than the USA. They hoard more wealth than Jeff Bezos
You will not get any truth about china on this channel
Only an idiot would think the Chinese government is anything but atrocious
What more proof would a person need?
So true. I was stuck in dubai airport for 5 days and i talked to an emirate man. He said "im glad you are complaining. I would do the same but they will open a case on me and my whole family lives here."
Ive never heard anything that sent chills down my spine so quickly.
So freedom of speech is not there in UAE
@@comradeleppi2000 of course not. Both religious and political speak against islam or the King is forbidden.
Even staunch nationalists in western countries will criticize their governments. It leads to improvement. If you have a loved one, who is doing badly, you want to explain to them what the issue is, and help them to get better, because you love them, and see their potential, but if you can't criticise them, and point out what's wrong, they'll continue down a path of self destruction.
I wish there were more people like you in the world, just/righteous people who will not turn a blind eye to injustice and to victims of injustice. What you said about 'you want to ignore politics, but politics will ignore you' reminds me of the poem 'first they came...' from pastor Martin Niemoller. Keep up the good work mate and stay awesome!
Thank you for your honesty. You kept your humanity despite the pressures.
感谢你说出真相
Love your videos. You are educating the rest of the world about the evils of that Government. Thank you
I think you mean the evils of Chinese people. The government can't exist without being permitted to buy the population.
"You may choose to ignore politics, but politics will not ignore you..."
A valuable lesson I wish more people could learn.
"If there is a problem, we talk about it. It may not be resolved, but it will never be if no one talk about it..."
This is something not just China, but alot of Asian like myself never thought about it. To most asian, especially chinese. We will have this mindset of, "If we don't talk about it, then it never happened" or "We don't talk about it,let someone else solve it". Unfortunately, these has become a bad trait for us Chinese/Asians. And even if we came to realize it was a bad trait, we get put down by those who surround us immediately. Because "A nail that sticks out, will be hammered".
However, I'm a lonewolf anyway. If I let those who surrounded me, decides who I am and what I am not. Then I am no longer me.
And thank you @serpentza for choosing not to ignore what CCP/CPC has done, and speaks out for those who couldn't. Stay awesome~👍
That lesson exists in the United States also. I found it to be true here as well. 🙁 😔
America has changed too. Our freedoms are being slowly taken piece by piece with amendments here and there and slight rule and law changes. People are idiots not paying attention. Actually even if they're not idiots they are still oblivious to it because they are being kept so busy working and handling family lives etc. Basically always busy. Keep them busy and they won't notice the hanging noose being tightened around their necks.
It is a Truly Alien trait if you are a westerner. This behavior is So Dysfunctional and still mystifies me to this day..
Please do tell me about the Americans or even visiting foreigners who are disappeared for speaking up.... waiting...@@NotAvailable_na
That letter sent to your fam is the epitome of what happens to a society when they are constantly controlled and dictated to: They become nasty and petty, full of hubris, infantilized into a perpetual Karenhood with no ability (no option maybe!) of being able to self reflect.
that letter was shocking to read. whoever wrote that does not deserve to call themself a human being. they called wincent a dog... ironic, the ones who wrote that letter are 100x worse than dogs. disgusting low level brain rot hate fuelled hyper nationalistic puppets. Any chinese who does not understand the tyranny of the CCP is such. they need to grow a brain, and a pair, and do something. don't let the sacrifice in Tiananmen Square be for nothing.
Well done video. Factual and realistic. Those people who commented negatively to your video probably has no clue what's happening in China.
It's always bothered me how much wasted potential China has. They have all the ingredients to genuinely become the best country on earth overnight, but the mass corruption and greed prevents it.
Average morning of Japanese middleschooler Vs Brainwashed Chinese middleschooler:
Brainwashed Chinese student:
-Wakes up late.
-Runs down street with bao in mouth.
-Is late for Shinzo Abe mock assassination.
-First period Calculus at 10am.
Japanese student:
-Wakes up late.
-Runs down street with toast in mouth.
- _Is NOT late for mock Tianamen Square Massacre as no one would care to do such a thing._
-First period Calculus at 10am.
keep telling the truth, its necessary in today's world
I grew up in the Philippines and I understand the people and despise the corrupt politicians
You’re doing amazing work and are helping Chinese people and world people to change for better and avaid potential human tragedies for all because of their immoral behaviours.
As a “skilled” tradesman in the states who works in construction I’m always fascinated by the Tofu Dreg construction of CCP China. It’s beyond dangerous and beyond greedy.
It really takes “close enough for government work” to unexpected levels.
Edit: where do you get your suits? They look great just sayin 👀
I couldn't construct a building that bad if I tried.
They encourage despicable behavior. Of course, people have no concern for other people's safety.
I've lived in Taiwan for more than 20 years now and I have had simiar experiences that you mention in your videos,e.g., racism, incompetent work, etc. When I would speak up about these things, often was told my opinion means nothing because I'm not Taiwanese and if I didn't like it, I should just go back to my own country. Although not perfect, things have gotten better for foreigners here in recent years. I hope you and your family find happiness in America. Good luck, brother. 🙂
Ah.. something to be expected on corporate world.. Not a particular country problem, Human were always full of power trip, jealousy and selfishness.. worst if you're not the "charismatic foreighner" and provide something to leverage their status this will happened quite often..