The issue with this video is that a great deal of it is a projection of the issues and anxieties of the United States, and not as much what is actually going on in China. This is the issue with westerners making videos about China and not Chinese people.
I believe there is a method the CPC can do to reduce youth unemployment, increase consumer spending, and slightly bump up the fertility rate; abolish exploitative labour practices such as 996. If employers cannot squeeze a small group of workers for everything they have, they have to hire more workers, those workers now have more leisure time and so instead of spending their only free day in the week recharging, they can go out and dine, shop, and aren't so exhausted that they may now believe they have time to raise children.
The problem is consumerism empowers customers… who are also citizens. Allowing citizens to control supply of goods and services ultimately allows the same citizens to steer the underlying policies and the politicians who make them, and there’s a _lot_ of common animosities against the Party that can quickly get explosive once the Chinese people aren’t siloed and gaslit into thinking it’s all just personal problems they carry.
Youth unemployment is not a challenge unique to China; many developed countries are grappling with similar issues. I know friends who graduated years ago and are still struggling to secure careers-one with an accounting degree and another in computer science. The competition is intense, with 100 applicants vying for just 50 available positions.
That is true, however it is nowhere near the scale that China is experiencing. Most developed countries have youth unemployment around 8-15%, but China's is almost certainly over 25% by now; even worse is the sheer size of China's population (12% of 18-29 y.o from a country of 30 million which is about average for Europe is very different from 25% of 18-29 y.o from 1.4 billion).
@@hongjian3714 In the long term yes, though recently it's towards the lower end of that scale. This analysis seems very flawed but then maybe the lack of a release from political change may bolster his argument.
9:50 this reminds me of how in yes minister, Sarah Humphrey states that compulsory education was extended by two years just reduce the unemployment rate
@PolyMatter - Very interesting video. Thank you! I *_do_* still want to see the other problems covered, such as their _population implosion bomb_ because that problem looms large for many countries.
I feel that all these high unemployment rates are because of young people being told to find their "dream job", or a "job that get you lots of money". There's only so many doctors, engineers and artists you'll ever need. There will always be low income workers, we just need to make sure that there is a good work-life balance and no body is a starving homeless.
1. Reduce? Did you mean raise the retirement age considering how birth rates are there? 2. The army is a strain on the economy since it doesn't produce goods and services that circulate and develop the economy further, using its reinforcement to quell youth unemployment would require redirecting the flow of finances from the civil sector into essentially a drain. It will stimulate industries connected to military sector, but it will happen at the cost of the essential areas of the civil one and will only perpetuate a downward spiral. Kinda like what's going on in Russia right now - military companies poach job opportunities from regular businesses and vital (for the society) employment areas like logistics and maintenance suffer major underemployment. Don't forget about the social unrest too since military isn't a particularly desired career path nowadays, and considering the recent "revenge against society" accidents there is little reason to believe China will handle it smoothly.
He is one of the more fair analytical sources on China to be honest; None of the "Xi Jinping is our lord and savior that will tear down the hypocritical west" or "China will collapse in X number of days because Y reason".
Massive unemployment is every government's fear. People who haven't stayed in China do not realize the natural massive support that the CCP enjoys there. CCP's foundation isn't only anchored to the economic prosperitt, but the "social trauma", which China experienced. "Of course, the CCP took advantage of it and use it in their propaganda", but most Chinese, like the Vietnamese, are definitely contented by the current political structure of their country, regardless of how uncertain the economy is at this point.
Not sure how much this affects too, but from an outsider's perspective, the CCP has done an effective job at portraying themselves as the ones keeping outside forces from crippling China, in particular from the US.
So you got the graphic a bit wrong Boomers are the parents of Millennials not grandparents and Gex X is the parents of Gen z. Millennials are the parents of gen Alpha, I a millennial dad have two gen alpha sons and my father and mother are both boomers and that's the same with all my millennial friends maybe the youngest of millennials have gen x as parents but I doubt there are many.
This sort of feels like the michael parenti black shirts and reds quote regarding capitalists' nations desire to paint any policy in the 'opposing camp' as intentionally designed to be subversive no matter what.... Sure college attendance went up during their financial crisis, but that happens here... China at that period was reaching levels of industrialization and specialization which would benefit from a better trained workforce and so improving education funding is a great investment both for short term economic stimulus and for long term economic construction.... and don't forget that even in the US college attendance rates increase during economic downturns because when people lose their jobs they instead try to reinvent and reinvest in themselves.... heres the quote if you're curious "During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regimes atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goodsdemonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them." -Michael Parenti, Black Shirts and Reds, Ch3. pg.41
4:45 comparing China's GDP per capita in 1998 to mali's in 2024 is the dumbest thing I've ever heard, not to mention above the chart you wrote "GDP" not "GDP per capita"
The ONE PLACE on Earth winnie (Xitler) fears the most in Disneyland and I'm not making this up. NO CCP party members are allowed to visit the Disneyland because....winnie is ALL OVER the place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ZONG!!!!! Too good!!! I crack myself up. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
If the same problems can appear in both china and the US, two countries with vastly different political systems, then it's not a "democracy" issue if you ask me, giving free elections to the people of china doesn't mean that suddenly new jobs will appear and that their wages will increase. It's all economics and the use of human resources. Becoming a democracy would only change the flag and emblem. China is still there, the packaging is just slightly different, but it's still china.
The government was trying to reform the economy while minimizing the government/political reform. In short, the ruling class in China doesn't want to loosen the grip on power. Former premier of China, wen jia bao, once said something like any economy reform without the aid of political reform will be in vain to call for further reform since he is from the reformist faction of the CCP, but that faction was annihilated by the establishment faction which Xi is from.
A powerful and new Russian leader. Remember when the Soviet union was at its pinnacle they and China were not very friendly. So if a new leader replaced Russia that was not BING chilling, Bejing would be afraid.
Which helps balance how pro-CPC greedy sociopathic corporations and their conglomorated ad-driven mainstream media have become since laissez-faire Reaganomics took hold.
Shame that the chinese dont know about these negative stats and are too busy living their lives in modern cities filled with all the newest technologies, amazing public transport system and growing economy or else they would be really mad 😅
What are you on about? You do realize The Chinese youth ate just about the most mobile group in Amy country right now? The great fire wall of China inadvertently made the ideals of the west more appealing to the youth who have been protesting things.
This is an exaggeration. A communism always solve social problems better than capitalism. The communist party is not controlled by corporates, making it, making it far more caring than Western countries like US.
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*What Xi jinping fears more than america*
_"Umm... Winnie the Pooh?"_
😭😭😭😭
Reminds me of a South park episode 😂
He fears himself?
You all are brainwashed. 😂
So....the mirror?
Missing honey pot
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He's losing the mandate of heaven
The issue with this video is that a great deal of it is a projection of the issues and anxieties of the United States, and not as much what is actually going on in China. This is the issue with westerners making videos about China and not Chinese people.
@@robert-rv8loso would you say the problems listed in the video are over dramatic?
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Seeing a kid who looked 14 on that protest clip sent shivers down my spine. I wish the best to all Chinese.
First polymatter video in years not mainly advertising another part on nebula, thanks
The fact that we get free videos on TH-cam by PolyMatter is truly a gift; keeping education and knowledge alive. 👍🙏🤷
4:26 1877 was a great year for college enrollment
what happened in 1877? Google says a bunch of revolts?
@maryamwaqar7648 The graph has a mistake going from 1971 to 1877
CCP: You can only have 1 child
Chinese people: OK
CCP 45 years later when China's population starts crashing: *pikachu face*
Ah yes, population control. There is a reason why it's considered a callsign of the most brutal regimes on earth.
And now that both youth unemployment and cost of living are high, and savings are crashing,
CCP: you can have more kids
People: nah, we're good
Even so little children there is still unemployment.
And now all the aborted and sent to USA female children…
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I believe there is a method the CPC can do to reduce youth unemployment, increase consumer spending, and slightly bump up the fertility rate; abolish exploitative labour practices such as 996. If employers cannot squeeze a small group of workers for everything they have, they have to hire more workers, those workers now have more leisure time and so instead of spending their only free day in the week recharging, they can go out and dine, shop, and aren't so exhausted that they may now believe they have time to raise children.
The problem is consumerism empowers customers… who are also citizens. Allowing citizens to control supply of goods and services ultimately allows the same citizens to steer the underlying policies and the politicians who make them, and there’s a _lot_ of common animosities against the Party that can quickly get explosive once the Chinese people aren’t siloed and gaslit into thinking it’s all just personal problems they carry.
Lol. China can't do it. They can't stand to lose manufacturing to the west so they can better wage war.
Gen X is mid 70's not millennials.
Youth unemployment is not a challenge unique to China; many developed countries are grappling with similar issues. I know friends who graduated years ago and are still struggling to secure careers-one with an accounting degree and another in computer science. The competition is intense, with 100 applicants vying for just 50 available positions.
50? Damn thats alot, its more like 15 irl
2:1 job competition is insanely good lmao. Even 15 is normal, you're supposed to relentlessly apply to places.
That is true, however it is nowhere near the scale that China is experiencing. Most developed countries have youth unemployment around 8-15%, but China's is almost certainly over 25% by now; even worse is the sheer size of China's population (12% of 18-29 y.o from a country of 30 million which is about average for Europe is very different from 25% of 18-29 y.o from 1.4 billion).
@@deathdrone6988 Spain and Italy has youth unemployment of 20-40%.
@@hongjian3714 In the long term yes, though recently it's towards the lower end of that scale. This analysis seems very flawed but then maybe the lack of a release from political change may bolster his argument.
Speaking of Indonesia, can you talk about how the country has gotten much more religious since the president's overthrow in the late '90s?
9:50 this reminds me of how in yes minister, Sarah Humphrey states that compulsory education was extended by two years just reduce the unemployment rate
These are the best videos on TH-cam, and I watch so many fantastic TH-camrs. I genuinely get really giddy each new installment. Thank you!
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."
When the living environment is harsh, animals will automatically reduce their fertility, let alone humans.😶🌫
I watch Chinese language videos on TH-cam and I'm always amused by people saying china banned winne the Pooh, as Winnie the Pooh is all over china.
@PolyMatter - Very interesting video. Thank you! I *_do_* still want to see the other problems covered, such as their _population implosion bomb_ because that problem looms large for many countries.
By the way, by Chinese standards, you will be considered 'employed' as long as you have done 1 hour paid work per week. Yes, that's 1 hour per week.
"Every man fears his wife"
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3:23 That mouse pad is next level
I’m gonna guess internal strife
The too long didn't watch:
It's spiders
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I feel that all these high unemployment rates are because of young people being told to find their "dream job", or a "job that get you lots of money". There's only so many doctors, engineers and artists you'll ever need. There will always be low income workers, we just need to make sure that there is a good work-life balance and no body is a starving homeless.
21% of 1.4 billion is 294 million not 31 million. The workers of china are around 740 million 21% of that is 155.4 million.
Does high youth unemployment make it easier for them to raise an army? Couldn’t you just reduce the retirement age?
1. Reduce? Did you mean raise the retirement age considering how birth rates are there?
2. The army is a strain on the economy since it doesn't produce goods and services that circulate and develop the economy further, using its reinforcement to quell youth unemployment would require redirecting the flow of finances from the civil sector into essentially a drain. It will stimulate industries connected to military sector, but it will happen at the cost of the essential areas of the civil one and will only perpetuate a downward spiral. Kinda like what's going on in Russia right now - military companies poach job opportunities from regular businesses and vital (for the society) employment areas like logistics and maintenance suffer major underemployment.
Don't forget about the social unrest too since military isn't a particularly desired career path nowadays, and considering the recent "revenge against society" accidents there is little reason to believe China will handle it smoothly.
Back to our China videos again, Polymatter x China a never ending relationship
He is one of the more fair analytical sources on China to be honest; None of the "Xi Jinping is our lord and savior that will tear down the hypocritical west" or "China will collapse in X number of days because Y reason".
Massive unemployment is every government's fear.
People who haven't stayed in China do not realize the natural massive support that the CCP enjoys there. CCP's foundation isn't only anchored to the economic prosperitt, but the "social trauma", which China experienced. "Of course, the CCP took advantage of it and use it in their propaganda", but most Chinese, like the Vietnamese, are definitely contented by the current political structure of their country, regardless of how uncertain the economy is at this point.
Not sure how much this affects too, but from an outsider's perspective, the CCP has done an effective job at portraying themselves as the ones keeping outside forces from crippling China, in particular from the US.
So you got the graphic a bit wrong Boomers are the parents of Millennials not grandparents and Gex X is the parents of Gen z. Millennials are the parents of gen Alpha, I a millennial dad have two gen alpha sons and my father and mother are both boomers and that's the same with all my millennial friends maybe the youngest of millennials have gen x as parents but I doubt there are many.
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The day China runs out of haters is the day PolyMatter bites the big one
Ello early crew.
Winnie the Pooh
4:30 Graph shows "1877" instead of "1977".... Very disappointed of you PolyMatter
This Ads do catch my interest . Very rear case. 😂
pre watch:
is it losing the modern mandate of Heaven ?
4:33 Chinese colleges in 1877 were on another level
what happened in 1877?
@@maryamwaqar7648At 4:26 the chart is mislabeled at the bottom. It goes from 1971 to 1877 but it should say 1977
Yep, those Imperial scholars were quite something
Xi Jinping fears losing his power.
Tiananmen happened on June 4. Most in China know of June 4. Most do not know of Tiananmen.
Those that do are taught to be so far removed that it’s like asking Americans to think about post-slavery Reconstruction.
@@doujinflip this of course depends. there is quite a wide variety of Chinese dissident as well.
15:23 Go Dawgs lol
... well ... he's got even more tanks ... so ... the Dalai lama !?
Working isn't worth it nor is living
This sort of feels like the michael parenti black shirts and reds quote regarding capitalists' nations desire to paint any policy in the 'opposing camp' as intentionally designed to be subversive no matter what.... Sure college attendance went up during their financial crisis, but that happens here... China at that period was reaching levels of industrialization and specialization which would benefit from a better trained workforce and so improving education funding is a great investment both for short term economic stimulus and for long term economic construction.... and don't forget that even in the US college attendance rates increase during economic downturns because when people lose their jobs they instead try to reinvent and reinvest in themselves.... heres the quote if you're curious
"During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could
transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile
evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent
and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions,
this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms
limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but
when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because
they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR
were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the
churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regimes
atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on
infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the
collectivist system; if they didn t go on strike, this was because they
were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goodsdemonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in
consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to
placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them." -Michael Parenti, Black Shirts and Reds, Ch3. pg.41
This is exactly what the west has done lmao
Xi is firmly in control. What we should be worried about is another Ukraine scenario regarding Taiwan.
Couldn’t happen to a worse country
My eggrolls
4:45 comparing China's GDP per capita in 1998 to mali's in 2024 is the dumbest thing I've ever heard, not to mention above the chart you wrote "GDP" not "GDP per capita"
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I'm here early! I just wanna say that you make the best content on China dude, it's always a good watch :)
Poly Matter , I like some of your content , but not this subject you got it all wrong
The ONE PLACE on Earth winnie (Xitler) fears the most in Disneyland and I'm not making this up. NO CCP party members are allowed to visit the Disneyland because....winnie is ALL OVER the place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ZONG!!!!! Too good!!! I crack myself up. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I like the PAGE but he always lie these day because of GEOpolitics interest but he is well versed
It's all about social rank…
China is getting really popular on TH-cam these days.
Yeah the propaganda is really being stepped up
Easy views from goys.
your algorithm, it's getting popular in your interests
This channel literally talks about every country and all trendy events, so what made you think that😂?
China already beat the US.
Think, Xi Jing Ping, think *poses like Pooh*
Anti-Chinese CIA sponsored propaganda?🤡🤡🤡
Wumao ?
No way that's your actual speaking voice lmfao
his voice sounds different than it used to be lmao
@@Art_borit’s the same voice
@@Art_bor it's the same voice
Ugh! It's terrible. Every sentence sounds the same.
Sounds condescending lol
4:06 8:05
Maybe losing power??!!
If the same problems can appear in both china and the US, two countries with vastly different political systems, then it's not a "democracy" issue if you ask me, giving free elections to the people of china doesn't mean that suddenly new jobs will appear and that their wages will increase. It's all economics and the use of human resources. Becoming a democracy would only change the flag and emblem. China is still there, the packaging is just slightly different, but it's still china.
14:37 I didn't expect to catch Ohio State here
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PolyMatter the clown squad will tell you what worries Xi hahahahaja
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htf polymatter becomes a china vs. usa comparison yt channel?
0:15 China kind of messed up in many areas it needs to reform or else it is going to be catastrophic for the country
The government was trying to reform the economy while minimizing the government/political reform. In short, the ruling class in China doesn't want to loosen the grip on power. Former premier of China, wen jia bao, once said something like any economy reform without the aid of political reform will be in vain to call for further reform since he is from the reformist faction of the CCP, but that faction was annihilated by the establishment faction which Xi is from.
Two more weeks.
A powerful and new Russian leader. Remember when the Soviet union was at its pinnacle they and China were not very friendly. So if a new leader replaced Russia that was not BING chilling, Bejing would be afraid.
14 seconds ago is Harassment
Tariffs are coming! 🇺🇸 🦅 ‼️
Another day, another Polymatter sinophobic propaganda video, what else is new...
Which helps balance how pro-CPC greedy sociopathic corporations and their conglomorated ad-driven mainstream media have become since laissez-faire Reaganomics took hold.
Shame that the chinese dont know about these negative stats and are too busy living their lives in modern cities filled with all the newest technologies, amazing public transport system and growing economy or else they would be really mad 😅
What are you on about? You do realize The Chinese youth ate just about the most mobile group in Amy country right now? The great fire wall of China inadvertently made the ideals of the west more appealing to the youth who have been protesting things.
waow
Only in America could you turn what would otherwise be a dream to most capitalists into an anti-communist hitpiece. Lmao
LOL. You are wrong.
Lol, how is China not capitalist?
I don’t understand this annoying voice, unfortunately it distracts from the actual content. Unsubscribed 😔
This is an exaggeration.
A communism always solve social problems better than capitalism. The communist party is not controlled by corporates, making it, making it far more caring than Western countries like US.
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