When I lived in Beijing in 2006, I went to a state sponsored dinner and was interviewed for Chinese TV. I thought I talked about how I liked the history and enjoyed visiting all the ancient buildings because we don't have anything like them in the US. Later, I was given a copy of the video, but they had someone do a voiceover of my comments. Apparently, what I really said was that China was a great place, it was better than the US and I wanted to live there forever.
Preach. I live in Wyoming, USA which is essentially the antithesis of a surveillance and security state like the PRC. I could not learn to live with that.
@@belgarath6508 Yes, I don't doubt there's info caught in the dragnet but there's nothing like the social credit system. Have you ever been to Wyoming? There aren't cameras anywhere except maybe the bigger towns (there aren't really any "cities" unless you count 55k living in one place a "city"). I suppose the interstate highways also have cameras, cameras normally just monitored by the WYDOT for traffic and transportation issues, that could be used by the feds if they needed to follow someone. It really comes down to how information is weaponized too. I can be some insane weapons hording maniac that talks shit about the federal government openly. Unless I make a credible threat, even if I'm known by the feds and they have a detailed file on me, guess what happens? Nothing. Try doing that in China and see how long you last before getting disappeared at 3AM.
@@TheHamburgler123 what?? I haven't heard that before. Why do you say Wyoming is like this? I've been there and didn't have to report to authorities or be followed by an agent..
@@KharlHungus I'm saying it's the complete opposite of China. It's way too rural and there are almost no cameras aside from the major highways (which are used for legitimate purposes). China has cameras everywhere, something like one for every six people in the country (so hundreds of millions).
This true. I know a Chinese woman who hasn't lived in China for over a decade but has recently been contacted by the Chinese police attempting to find out where she lives.
@@5150BudThat takes time though. And if your citizens answer truthfully anyway why bother? And if they don’t answer truthfully? Well then they have something to hide and you just discovered a “criminal”
And also a extra message from a Englishman from UK. The great country of Taiwan does not belong to China Taiwan is its own country and a free nation from the ccp so hands off.your so eager to take Taiwan into China that your forget Taiwan has far more friends around the world right now than China
When I used to live in china, I had an encounter with a woman I had never seen before in an elevator where she asked me tons of questions and your video has made me realised that was most likely a police officer. Thanks serpentza!
I don't quite understand this cultural obsession with “saving face" in China. From my point of view, blaming others for your own mistakes is weak and cowardly.
Saving face is a product of collectivism. You should look into the concepts of individualism vs. collectivism and Hoffstead’s other dimensions of culture.
You would think it would be effective. But the thing is 99% of men get basically no attention from attractive women, ever. So that already stands out. And after that we don't know how to deal with being flirted with. Add an atmosphere where we know surveilance and we are always under scrutiny, and it comes off as more confusing and threatening than sexy.
You’re one of the true investigative journalists of our time Serpentza. I appreciate your circumspect style, your attention to detail, the distinctions you make between the Chinese Govt, the culture, the people, the customs and your dedication to the truth. Your channel is a fascinating insight into an opaque society that never ceases to amaze. Thank you for your awesome work.
Their degree of paranoia is a big clue as to just how bad their intentions are, based on how bad they perceive other people's intentions to be. Huge red flag, pun intended.
BS. I have been to China several times. Yes, some people, like the airport authorities are rude, the people are a little rough and the food sucks. But I found it a lot safer than visiting India.
@@turanamo If you have to compare ANY place to Afghanistan you know the place you're comparing it to is already a shithole. Tell me a shill without telling me you're a shill holy shit.
I haven't watched this guy for awhile but I've just realised he is called Winston which is amusing because the guy in Gerorge Orwells book '1984' was called 'Winston' and he was hounded and oppressed by a communist authoritarian state much the same as Winston here. lol
@@blahdiblah2169 My use of language was intentional and Winston already liked my comment as everyone can see so I'm pretty sure he doesn't need you to be offended on his behalf.
Why are you assuming that @@blahdiblah2169 considered @devonian 's comment as offensive? If you read the comment he wrote and manage not to get offended and hurt by the "barely existing, at worst ever so mild" critique.. he just pointed out that this comment section can be used for direct communication with Winston, that he is not removed from his comment section. If anything you could say that his comment wasn't really relevant, or helpful. But where does the part where you see him being offended or even emotionally invested appear?
My best friend since practically birth decided he wanted to teach overseas, taught in American Samoa, Turkey, Belize, Rwanda where he met his girlfriend now fiance, but the one place he refuses to ever go back is China. He was hospitalized five times for respiratory issues, they never actually fixed the electrical and other problems in his apartment, and on his last night there, the local prefecture official in charge of the education ministry or whatever (who he had never met before this point) showed up at his hotel and invited him to dinner, and when they got to what I assume was some nice restaurant for foreigners and dignitaries his daughter was there all dolled up. The guy ended up leaving my friend there with his daughter, and after a few hours, my friend got up, said he was going to use the bathroom, left and finished packing up all his stuff and went and stayed overnight in the airport because he was worried about what might happen had he stayed. Probably not going to get arrested or something, but why risk anything at that point? Like it was so transparently obvious what was happening.
@@samuela2593 Yeah, sadly it just seemed to have gone away recently. Even when Hong Kong was in danger people didn't really seem to care. But everyone went to the streets for BLM. Which is of course important but I'd think an oppressive regime trying to take over/cencor an entire city of freedom-loving people would be important as well.
@@GetGermanized Yes, I get what you mean and I totally agree! In particular considering issues like Xinjiang, there seems to be a clear mismatch between people's concern about Uighurs and people of African descent! Obviously, those are two completely separate issues, but Germany is never too late to point fingers at the US (and rightfully so in most cases), yet you dont see that happening with China!
Well, I understand the whole "Japan is bad" especially after the atrocities of WWII committed in China. But you are right, you can't blame an individual for the actions of a government. (Again, I understand, but not agree.) That being said, the CCP is scaring me the more I learn about modern day China.
why would you say you especially understand the Japan is bad mentality... don't be feckless, call it what it is, disgusting racist government propaganda.
@@water8970 Because there are still survivors of the Nanjing massacre. In many instances Imperial Japan was worse that Germany, especially towards their enemies. ‘Understand’ does not mean ‘agree with’. I don’t believe the father’s sin should be blamed on the child. But man, what Imperial Japan did to both China and Korea is some of the worst atrocities in human history. (As in turn I can understand a Japanese person being pissed at Americans for dropping a couple nukes.)
“The police were really chill, I have to give them that… So at 2am the police were hammering on my door and burst into my apartment photographing and questioning me.” This is wild
Did they hang you upside down naked as they questioned you while they were hooded, periodically striking you with a black snake whip.....like they DID me?
You can agree to meet in a hotel, then change meeting address 15 mins before the meeting, then film the people rushing into the new address and expose who they are
Bollywood style to concoct fake news while speaking in fork tongue to portray his self created of " the poor victim imagery to hoodwink and mislead his naive followers"
did u never see some spy movies? they wait till he comes 2 the hotel. and the "Girl" isn't there so he leave and then they follow him to his home. that's how it works.
When I would meet with business folks in China or have meals with them, They often spoke Chinese to each other right in front of me, Confident that I did not understand it. ( which I didn’t ) But I made it a habit to suddenly glance over at whoever was speaking, or to suddenly change my expression with say a furrowed brow, or a abrupt smile. And the Chinese around me would suddenly stop talking for a moment, and one of them would ask, in Chinese, whoever there had the most dealings with me if they were SURE I didn’t speak any chinese. To which the person would assert I did not. I did this just to keep them guessing, and make them self conscious about speaking about me in front of me.
Girl I'm from Zambia and lemme tell you there is so many of these damn people over here and so few who are kind and respectful. Most of them have such inflated ego's and treat us like we are backwards just because we are African. This is why I like to focus on the ones I meet who are kind and open minded because the rest can piss you off into catching an assault charge.
If they do end up owning Africa completely, African natives will have a hard time. Hell, China already has concentration camps for their citizens. Chinese would move to Africa for work and Africans would become second rate citizens.
As much as I always wanted to visit China because of the history, temples, the Great Wall, I know myself enough that I wouldn't be able to keep my mouth shut if I witnessed some of the governmental interactions with its citizens. I feel more comfortable visiting South Korea, Japan, Vietnam.
you should really not waste a moment to visit when it is possible but if your intention was to stir up sentiments and cause rife in the Chinese system then don't.
@@wayangpok why is it you would think that way? I have watched several people who live full time in China, they talk about how things aren't what a westerner would expect, like if someone passes out on the street, no one will lend a hand because there have been scammers that wind up sueing the person who tried to help. I just feel it wouldn't be a comfortable vacation if I was faced with seeing that or some injustice that is accepted there, that isn't accepted elsewhere.
@@waterwitch8902 Because there's too much hearsay you are hearing. Experience it yourself without any reservations as you would with any country you visit, having their good and bad sides, and then be a better judge and opinion leader. Good luck.
I looked for serpent "fraud" "exposed" I'm going to laugh for a week. Love you, Winston. Be strong. For those Chinese intelligence agency people who are watching this, you stand on the shoulders of a great history and a great civilization. It grieves me that people smear Winston. It undermines people's respect for you. It shames you. Winston is just an ordinary guy doing ordinary things.
@@leedshuaren Absolutely, Racist Snake needs to be exposed. He's afraid of being exposed and loose all his TH-cam Income. That's why he's using all this reverse psychology to discredit real opinions and voices by claiming that they are paid by the Chinese gov. As a result anyone saying real facts will just be walled off. A smart person will see through all of that. Its devious, but what did you expect from someone calling himself as a Snake.
A man I know was on a business trip in an industrial city in China. The people were hard working and the air was dirty and the people not wealthy. Out of the mist appeared a young beautiful woman beautifully dressed, who spoke perfect English who asked him for help to find her hotel. He pointed out the obvious honey trap and she broke down and begged him just to spend time with her so she would not get punished. He diverted all conversation only to her, and she respected not asking any questions and thanked him and there was no touching. She apologized for her attempts.
I never knew China was this way and I'm glad you gave me a heads up because China is not on my to do list plus I'm a black man so I know they don't want me there.
@@audience2 yes that is true because of the cultural clash, slowly integrating immigrants is the way to go. Unfortunately here in canada we are importing immigrants on mass and seeing alot of "racism" because of this.
Who woulda thought you’d be at war with the Chinese government sometime in your adult life. Good luck my friend, stay safe and attentive if you choose this path.
I'm really respectful of his work. No journalist anywhere in this world have such knowledge about China and the guts to say things. You're a hero Winston.
Lived there 11 years and no bad experiences. Never grilled by police. Went late after returning feom abroad quite a few times and always told "next time come within a day or two." This guy made bideos critical of China so he got hassled. He brought it ENTIRELY UPON HIMSELF.I have many criticisms but I do not make videos critical of the Chinese govt. He messed with fire and got burned.
Well, since the CIA was formed from the OSS which was staffed by ex-NAZIs after WWII - there is that. I'd suggest not getting involved with the CIA if you have any scrap of ethics.
I am an Indian been living in china for 5 years and I confirm that whatever this guy says is true. Including the "NO INDIANS" board infront of that restaurant. Every Chinese person is not like that but ofcourse there are many like that.
@@dopedrums this was the first video of his i watched so i didn't realise he's left China but still even when he was there he was speaking up and even now he's not particularly safe from the ccp they've done some very shady shit even outside of China
Yes, start airing the dirty laundry. If they back off, perhaps you won't need to publish the worst of it. The ball's in their court. Call off the dogs, Winnie The Pooh.
In 2009 I spent 2 weeks in China to adopt my son. In Wuhan, I had a very odd encounter with a young man that spoke perfect english. He tried to convince me to deviate from my plans and go with him. I refused and walked away from him. From that point, I didn't communicate with anyone that wasn't necessary to complete that portion of the adoption. The next town I was in to finalize the adoption for the US side, I found a small playground for my son to play at. The first day there a cop walked up to me and we started talking. He also spoke perfect english. I went to that park daily to let my son burn off some energy. I was there at different times of the day. But each time, that same cop was there. Didn't take long to figure that out. I assumed he was there to spy on me and get as much info from me as possible. I thought my background as an Army vet (combat arms with sec clearance and a cop for over a decade at that point). Anyway, I played along with him so my son could play there. The last time I saw him, He was getting kind of pushy and asking me questions about what I thought of the U.S.. I was well aware of what he was doing. So I steered the conversation back to the Chinese Govt and life there. I admit, this guy got under my skin so I got a bit lippy with him. I brought up the topic of free speech and our ability to open speak negatively of our govt. He immediately told me that they couldn't do that. I responded by saying that anyone who does that there would end up standing in front of a T59 tank in Tianeman Sq.! Oh he got pissed! He dropped his nice act, took a step toward me and stopped. Being a cop myself, I could tell that he wanted to put hands on me, but stopped. Well, after that I took my son and went back to the hotel. I never went back to that playground. Knowing we we leaving 1 day later, I only went where I was supposed to and didn't stray from the group of other adoptive families! I will never go back to that country. Absolutely hated that place.
@@lulubumonNit at all. It’s well known that Chinese want a “perfect son”. What people don’t realize is how literal that really is. They are so superficial in that statement that if they have a sin with a visible birthmark, they will give him up for adoption. A few months after bringing him home, I took him to a Chinese restaurant. He and Insat down and the lady that owned the place came to our table and asked who he belonged to (because I’m white and he is Chinese). I told her that he is my son and we adopted him from China. She immediately responded by saying “what’s wrong with him”. I grabbed my son and left. The Chinese look at it like they are dumping their trash on us for a profit. In reality, it’s just bother step in them destroying their future.
@@jeremyblanton1445 I cannot deny a lot chinese families want healthy babies, who dosent ？But sometimes there's also a factor of medical costs, especially when everything burns out and its still not enough. For the poor families, choose between a new member and all the saving, literally everything because china dosent have a welfare system, its a very hard decision. Some of them choose to give up the new born babies with disabilities or birth problems to give them a better chance for life. I think the traditional Chinese idea of " the perfectness" plays some factors but not all. Don't forget, there's also time in the US history, some parents had no choice but to sell their children, it is the Great Depression. I meaning no offense, just to compare so you know humanity is actually not that far than you think it is.
@@lulubumon I understand that. Hard times makes for hard choices. I have no problem with that. If you're life will never be adequate to take on the responsibilities of raising a child, and you know it. It's the right decision. I'm not faulting anyone for that. And yes, I realize that many Chinese families make this decision. I'm referring to the parents who have a healthy child, but the child isn't "normal" or "perfect" who literally dump the child and try again. Example, my son was born deaf. His biological parents abandoned him in public, near a Buddhist temple (a couple hours outside of Wuhan) when he was 10 months old. I can tell you that 10 months is the approximate time that most parents begin to suspect the child may have hearing issues. That is the exact time that my wife and I began to suspect our oldest daughter was deaf. They abandoned him at 10 moths, suspect he was deaf, with zero communication skills in the streets. That is some cold hearted crap. They threw him away in a public street. Thankfully the police found him and he lived in a police station for 3 days while they tried to locate his parents. After giving up on that, they paced him in an orphanage. He bounced around to multiple orphanages and foster homes until, about 2 1/2 years later, we brought him home. Again, I'm not bashing the families that had to put their kids up for adoption for the benefit of the kid. I applaud that and realize that has to be one if the hardest decision they could make. I'm referring to those that throw their kids away like a piece of trash. This is where the Chinese Govt. comes in. In a Communist culture, the government is supposed to care for its citizens by (among other things) provide for their medical and educational needs. When he was brought into the orphanage system no one did anything to see if he was actually deaf and never bothered with any testing or attempts to identify if he is deaf, if so, how severe is the hearing loss/deafness.. There was zero effort to diagnose anything. So much for the government caring for its most defenseless... Then, there is education. In China, if you live outside Beijing or Shanghai, and you have a kid that is deaf, you are pretty much screwed. In that geographically huge nation, with billions of people, the only two places that the government will provide ANY sign language classes for deaf kids is in those two cities. So, they have 100% turned their backs on any deaf person outside of those two cities. This is a perfect example of how much they care for their citizens. Another example of how disabled people are looked after in china. I spent a week in Wuhan. Every day I would make time to throw my son on my back and walk around the city (within close proximity to my hotel). This was important for many reason. For us to bond and for him to begin to trust me. And, I would see something, get his attention, point to it, then show him the sign for that object. I was exposing him to sign language by walking the streets of Wuhan. While doing so, I learned a whole lot about the city, country and its citizens. I saw several severely disabled people on those streets. to preface this, I'm not a soft hearted sap. I'm an Army vet and was a street cop in the most dangerous neighborhood, of the most dangerous city in the US. Cant tell you how much blood guts and gray matter I dealt with. I'm very comfortable being around chaos, violence and pure evil. So, it was heartbreaking to walk the streets of Wuhan and see dozens, if not more severely disabled people being used for profit. There were a ton of people that had severe cerebral palsy that were literally lying in the streets, unable to move due to severe disability, covered in dirt, hadn't showered in days, disgustingly filthy covered in dirt, mud and urine. Someone drug these poor people out into the streets and dumped them there with a cup to collect money from the public out of pity. Back to the honey trap stuff. in addition to the cop I mentioned previously, almost daily, I ran into random people that approached me for various reasons, and were overly polite to help. Every one of them, like the cop spoke perfect English. Here are a couple examples of how random and bizarre these incident were. At a McDonalds, the first day in country, and I hadn't gotten my son yet, a teenaged boy approached me and asks if I need help ordering. I declined his offer. He then stood next to me striking up a conversation. He spoke grammatically perfect english. We made small talk as I was waiting for my food then followed me to my table and sat down to continue talking. I asked him why he wasn't in school. HE said he was on a lunch break. He then insisted that I accompany him back to his school and come to his class so I could meet his fellow class mates. I was shocked by that! I refused. I then immediately finished my lunch and left, He followed me for a block or two before I insisted he leave me alone because I had an appointment to meet my son for the first time. He then asked if he could go with me! I had to raise my voice at him and tell him to go away and leave me alone. The next day my son and I were eating breakfast in the hotel dining room. the waiter, again spoke perfect english and was way too nice, like overly nice. He pretty much ignored every other table in the dining room and stood right next to my table and continued to try and initiate a conversation. I had to get him to go away by explaining to him, that this was the first real meal that I was able to have with my son. He got the hint and went away. Then about half of the time I was coming or going from the hotel I just happened to run into him. Hmm, not suspicious at all. Then one of the last nights I stayed at that hotel, this hotel waiter told me that he was getting off work soon and invited me to go a bar with him and his friends. WTF? NO WAY IN HELL! I would never take a kid to a bar at home with my own friends. Let alone, take him to a bar half way around the world in a city that I don't know with people that I didn't know. The weirdness continued for the rest of the time I was there. All of these weird interactions with people I'd never met, inviting me to deviate from my schedule to go do weird shit was pretty obvious. Just like your insistence that my observations were incorrect. You are starting to remind me of many of the people that I was referring to. Why are you so persistent to make me change my opinion on this matter? Why are my opinions and observations so important to you? Kinda weird!? making me start to change opinions of who exactly I'm interacting with.
@@lulubumon LOL! Prejudice is to prejudge or have a preconceived notion about a specific group of people. It has nothing to do with an opinion that was formed after the fact. I had no opinion of china before going there. My opinion was formed from actually being there and experiencing these incidents first hand. If you want to sling insults, at least use the correct terminology. I don’t know your involvement with china,and I really don’t care. I was simply responding to the video to share my personal experiences. You chose to single me out and engage in a conversation in which you have zero personal experience in. You responded to my response with a preconceived notion. This was and is apparent. Yet, I chose to respond and start a conversation explaining my perspective. Yet, you don’t give a damn about my experiences (reason for my initial post). Initiated this conversation in an effort to virtue signal for some reason. You are only concerned with trying to insult or change my opinions. Sorry, didn’t work. So, I’m done with your ideological crap. Enjoy your superiority complex and false sense of open mindedness.
I had an airport stop in Shanghai once, wasn't entering into China at all, only changing planes. The police in the airport insisted that they scan my passport, and asked why I stopped in China. They knew I worked for the US Government when they looked at my passport pages, and started to ask me strange questions. After I showed them the onward ticket to Thailand, they finally let me leave. I won't ever book a flight that changes planes in China again. I can only imagine how bad it could have become.
Of course they insisted on scanning your passport, it's the same in most countries including the UK, it's to ensure there isn't an international arrest warrant out on the name in the passport, an extradition request or whatever. And as for asking you 'strange questions', same when you transit US because in many airports transit is not a secure area separate from arrivals.
As government workers, we're instructed to avoid any flights that have layovers in China specifically for that reason. I'm honestly surprised you even took it in the first place.
My man, you are from the US? They are exactly the same if not worse than China. They look into your phone and computers, let you hand over your socials, ask a bunch of 'strange questions'. They take fingerprints and Irisscans if they want to. They do this with everyone, even tourists from European countries
The level of awareness the Chinese authorities maintain on the activities of people travelling there , speaks volumes as to why Chinese residents are so scared to speak out against the Chinese government even when they’re over seas , it’s genuine Orson Wells shit
This is a fact that does exist! But getting this ID isn't about monitoring you, it's about managing! So this is why China is so safe and people can still go shopping at night!
@@toyzeean7509 People go shopping at night because a SWAT team from the CCP can raid your house at night and take you away for "re-education" only for your organs to turn up in a hospital in Bejing.
@@toyzeean7509 Truth hurts. The CCP send in armed police to raid people's houses simply for not advising the local police what you are doing and where you are living. That is a fact. This is what the CCP is trying to impose on the rest of the world. We understand that you have to write what you write or else the CCP might send your family members off to "reeducation camp".
I was once approached by a Chinese lady in my own country, and she went through a whole bunch of angles flattering me, asking me about my work, telling me her husband was away a lot, wanting me to boast about how much access to information I had at work, on and on..... do they really think this would work? Problem is, it could have been either side, and I didn't want to get involved with any of them, so I played super dumb.
@ONE MAN ARMY Either she was working for China and they were looking for commercially valuable information; for a state sponsor of terrorism and was looking for information about critical infrastructure; or for our side and was looking for weak links.
Been watching this guy for a couple of years now. I think I've probably seen every single video. He is always very honest, thoughtful and respectful. More importantly, he provides insight that otherwise might not have been seen from my location. Particularly, these days, these are very relevant insites.
I love how they are so eager to expose someone of being corrupt by methods only corrupt people would come up with. They probably had a huge pikachu face.
The irony is that CCP's efforts to discredit you only provide yet more "dirty laundry" to expose. Thank you for exposing it - that is very important work.
As a Chinese person my self seeing how these people treat other races and countries really hurts my soul. It sometimes make me feel disappointed to be from the same lineage of these people. And me living in a country where racial harmony is a huge aspect of life where all of us citizens learn to live together like normal human beings. This apparently made some chinese netizens calling me and my family "traitors" or "brainwashed".
Please don’t feel bad, it’s not your fault. You and your family are very brave and should be proud to stand up against what’s wrong even when it’s the norm.
don't you feel bad man, As an Indian, even i am feed with so much propoganda but i iwll still not dare to target anyone just cause our govt don't like them. thanks for putting your comments here.
Many, many years ago, when I was stupid, I spent some time in prison and I became good friends with the only Chinese lad there. He was a very low ranked member of a Triad. He didn't CHOOSE to become one, he was extremely poor and really didn't have much choice. Anyway, cut a long story short, he was petrified that he would get deported back to China. He said he would get killed, probably within a week. I got out long before him, he was in for a long stretch and I tried to stay in touch (he wasn't a Gangster or a Thug, he was a nice kid, and quite lost), I got one letter from him in his broken Engrish but never heard from him again after that. I fear that his fear came true. 😔 Poor fella.
@@sandraa.7794 Not all those poor gangsters are good people. My father was raised in a poor black neighbourhood and his relatives would fight and do things solely for fun or pride. A lot of gangsters just do crime for fun or social reasons, for example look at the kia boys today; They steal cars and do dangerous stunts for fun and glory, not "muh poverty". Walk around Chicago and you see plenty of examples of what I'm talking about. There's a difference between being forced into a gang via threats and willingly being a gang member. And, despite living in that environment, my father never joined any gangs or did crime. He was the victim of plenty of violent crimes, though.
"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say." Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones
This happened to me in Busan Korea and I am white "no foriegners due to our customers request " The US is digressing in race relations due to woke culture. Like Rodney King said "can't we all just get along"
🙄 What I find to be so ass backwards about the Chinese is they're openly hostile towards their non citizens yet expect us to say nothing about our shit experience in their country. Did I get something wrong here I thought that's how reviewing works, if they wore treating people with the respect they deserve do they think people would have negative things to say about their country? China do not compute rational logic and reasoning it's all about how they can extract as much resources from you and bully you but expect you to just say nice things about them after, pfftt... nah we're used to telling entire countries and their bureaucrats to fuck off if we do not agree with their politics.
I’ve been to China twice; I have no desire to return. I was treated well, but it is an extremely paranoid place, and the drivers are atrocious. My first drive , there were two cars casually hanging out on a highway, stopped in the middle two of 4 lanes, chatting over cigarettes.
@Albert Felsen Albert, I'm not a Trump cultists, I am a free thinker, follow nobody, have no blind obedience for nobody, don't hate Jews, or Europeans. In fact, I'm European. I live in a country next to Belgium and Danmark, and I payed very well attention during my school time history and geography lessons... So try something else. Have a nice day. O, and by the way, I traveled the world, was a few months in China, I loved most of the the people, but the system is brutal, it kills the free, creative mind. That's why they have to steal everything, they can't invent anymore, The CCP terrorsystem killed the creativity....
This sound so on par, I'm a European student studying abroad in another European country, I have a couple nice Chinese friends who invited me to an Asian party in which I met this awkward Chinese guy from a different university, the party ends, the next day he adds me on Facebook, the next day he messages me saying I should remove a video posted on my wall (by as 60year old German man)because it is offensive to Chinese people (the video in question is a cat holding money, the currency being Chinese Yuan), I decline, he becomes aggressive, I threaten to block him and he disappears, the following Wednesday I get an email from my university saying I'm being investigated for hate speech and misconduct, I appear before the dean and get even worse news, the police and Chinese embassy have also received a copy of the letter(and then contacted the university again). This was followed by an ultimatum, delete the video or my 4 years in medschool will be rendered null. The choice was obvious to me, I deleted the video, wrote an apology letter to the man and university and talked to the police explaining I didn't have malintent... I don't know what happened on the embassy side but I can't imagine I'm welcome in China any time soon!
@@TheCritizen did you read what I wrote, a post on my wall by a different person, the post is a cat video, the cat holding money which happens to be Yuans with the likeness of Chairman Mao on them thus the guy considered ME racist, I didn't even post it myself
I realized a few years ago...that when I went to China on business, there was this friendly guy my age that I kept running in to. He was so friendly and always asked me personal questions, almost like and interview...He asked I were Jewish or Catholic, he asked if I have a girlfriend, he asked if I have ever traveled to other countries and which ones. I ran into him on a campus where he approached me like a friendly colleague , then I ran into him at a cafe...more questions. Finally, I ran into him in a business park before a meeting.
The Western countries that have been invading and colonizing for the last hundred years have been saying that the victims of aggression are bad people. That's so funny.
@RonaldMutebo yes...he would come out of nowhere, we woukd be elated in our "coincidence and odd luck"...then chat a bit...at the time I was grateful to see a familiar face for the short time I was there. I assume now, that he was a scout for the region, perhaps?
@@johnnyg1933 that guy was sloppy. 3 times appearing to you is overkill. Then his line of questioning is even less subtle. One good thing about growing up in impoverished places is that you get fairly accustomed to dealing with people with ulterior motives. But at least you have experience for if there’s a next time!
Excellent programme. Found you for the first time today. What you are telling us is (a) more than interesting, and (b) truly scary. Perhaps it explains why so many young Chinese people want to leave their country and DO leave their country, coming to the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, etc.
nova 69 Yeah... what he say is correct because Mainland China is located on the west of Taiwan across the Taiwan strait... he want to change the name of China lol 😂
Imagine back in 1989 the said demonstrator purportedly from China were screaming in American accented English " They are killing my people" Wake up dude we all been duped by the Foreign financed riots which incidentally is still going on today financing riots in Venezuela, Cuba HK Bangkok Indonesia, India etc
Hope my dumb ass ex hear what other guys are saying. As he told me that I should not blame him for doing that (sleeping with the girl who try to seduce him or voluntary offer free sex) as any guy would accept the offer when i caught him red handed on the bed with another girl.
Indian American here. I visited Thailand, Singapore and Hong Kong in 2018. HK was probably the most enjoyable and I wanted to make a trip to Beijing or Shanghai and Tokyo next. After reading this and watching some of your other videos, I am disgusted by China and have zero desire to go there. They don’t deserve any of mine or anyone else’s tourism income. I’m sure they love blonde haired, blue eyed people though. I’m sure they’re invited and welcomed everywhere. I know a lot of TH-cam channels do this for only monetary gain. I know the video where you talked about the serial beach monkey likely was demonetized so I know you’re not doing this for money. You’re spreading the truth risking your own well being just to educate and help others. It’s much appreciated.
"I'm a guy yes but I try to think with THIS head" LOL good on you. I can only imagine how many guys fell for it and are now paying the price. Thanks for sharing your story and the truth with world!
The only good thing that I can think of China right now is their culture. Their products are low-quality trash, so expendable that they pile up and pollute the environment in no time compared to another country's standards.
I doubt it was the Chinese gov. They already know anything they want and if they wanted to could have just bust down the door to his home and arrested him. The fact that they were trying to meet him in person and get his address makes me suspect it was someone working independently of the gov.
First time I went to a police station to register where I was staying in China, in the police station in a dark corner there was a desk with a sign saying "registration of dogs and foreigners" ;)
The most hilarious part about it is they tried to tell people that communism was better and stronger than democracy back in 2020. So strong in fact that any criticism directed at any part of it will topple the entire thing therefore all dissent must be crushed and all previous mistakes must not be talked about.
@@rip8641 Um no China’s claim was that Democracy is a direct path to communism if true all Democracy’s will become communist this idea comes from the man whom founded communist China and from what i seen different democratic world leaders do i would say China might be right about that claim.
If only the CCP would try to put this much effort into tracking down women, children and other people who have been kidnapped and trafficked. (Now that I think about it, they form a major chunk of people involved in doing that.)
Why do you think I keep talking about Epstein, especially in the connection to him in Wuhan thanks to a Harvard scientist. I keep telling people no one safe every countries involved in this.
Generally across most nations victims of violent crime are primarily adult men. How about you don't discriminate. Don't be sexist. It's disgusting and is literally no different than from what's being talked about in this video.
@@organicmachines3225 majority of the victims are adult men? I think you got it twisted lol. The majority of the crime is committed by adult men 🙄 And also what country are you talking about. If it’s Asia, we already know the majority of victims are young people and women.
This video was truely an eyeopening for me as to how they monitor people even after they left the country. Many thanks to you for your invaluable information. Wish you all the best and safety.
@@mannotwiththeplan Russian had successfully infiltrated the FDR administration and got us into WW2. I would recommend looking up Harry Hopkins and FDR's soviet ties.
There needs to be more people like you in this world. Its easy to say what you believe, but to actually stand up to it is extremely admirable. You genuinely help people.
It's so dumb. As much as I love my Chinese friends, a few of them are so lock in their own beliefs that the moment anything challenges them, instead of having a respectful and fact-based debate, they immediately lash out and calling names. Not the greatest way to solve any conflict lol. I don't want to diss anyone, but Chinese education system (there are others in the world, not just China's) tend to kill critical thinking or personal growth, and more focusing on "there's only one right method; don't challenge it, or you are wrong" mentality.
While I can't disagree, neither the American nor British education systems help promote critical thinking either. Maybe 20-30 years ago moreso, but all you need to do is go compare test papers over the years and you'll realise the whole world over is being dumbed down. We're no longer taught analytical processes and healthy scientific skepticism, we're taught we already have the answers, and all you need to remember/receit/repeat information correctly to pass. It's quite the embarrassment to actually look into how easy test papers are these days, and kinda realise why every generation seems to keep getting dumber. Unless you can repeat your government's version of events, history and ideology - you're not a good citizen, and won't fit into society. That's not just a Chinese thing. You can strongly correlate American nationalism with Chinese nationalism at times, both equally are blinded by their media and world view. The huge difference is that most Americans aren't afraid of speaking their honest opinion. whether it's against their own government or not.
Don't feel so lonely. I was accused of working for the CIA yesterday, by some wu-mao guy with a fake Japanese name, but I'm living in Taiwan. I said that I could use the extra paycheck.
Saying someone is from the CIA is a classic behavior of ignorant people outside the US (not saying all people outside the US are ignorant, just the ignorant ones seem drawn to this behavior). I spent some time in South America and I heard it all the time. I wonder if foreigners in the US get told they are from random spy agencies as well. Hard to believe but I would be interested.
Amazing content. As a European in my mid sixties my knowledge of China was limited to its a communist country. I didn’t understand how they monitored an entire population. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Winston, I take my hat off to you. Your honesty is & always has been, a breath of fresh air. But please, please be careful. CCP can be as underhand as the worst of organizations. Stay safe Winston. All the best M8 from Scotland.
It is amazing how far of a reach does CCP's new Hong Kong "security law" has, it basically gives the CCP authority to extradite "any" individual for a trial in Mainland China. I believe this "Security Law" is CCP's very first imperialistic move.
Hey bro. I love you as a human being and the rest of your family. Do what’s safest and best for your family. You are brave, you show us your integrity nearly daily. Good luck to you hope we can meet one day!
Praying you are safe and well with your family. Stay vigilant ! You are doing SUCH a good job telling us what we need to know that the powers are scared of you !
So I'm a black south african man and yeah... Guess I'm never stepping foot on Chinese soil. ... Well, I didn't expect this comment to get noticed like this. Thanks for all the opinions fellow humans
@@adangbe Multi billion infrastructure projects, funded by China to all over Africa, with Made in China "quality" with decades long maintenance deals that most likely has some rather "interesting" fine print ending up costing African countries way more than if it was made locally and this is for exchange for rights for natural resources, but since its China they will just take everything from the ground and leave toxic waste land after them. Western corporations sure are assholes that do similar stuff if they can get away with it, but least they havent necessarily bought and paid for your whole political leadership of the country and international organizations.. with China if you want to get it to stop, you are fighting your own countrys police, military, government , large propaganda machine and then CCP. Surveillance and information networks built by Huawei=CCP spying mainly for China, what then can be used to get dirt of your politicians etc worth to mention, to then used as black mail material to do exactly what CCP want them to do. Essentially CCP has flooded Africa with money, built everything, they only know how its operated, they have bought your governments, so they essentially own everything. Even if you try create uprising against them, they are spying you, chancing public opinion against you, your government will see you as treat to them and paint you as terrorist and then even if you manage to take over the country, China might send its military to "help against terrorist insurgency", wipe their political enemies and properly invade the country. Only way is to get Large movement to force your governments to push China out from Africa and you guys to start building your own countries. You have natural resources and work force, just need to get some population control so there is no famine (there needs to be enough food to everyone. Foreign aid does not anything but make things worse when you guys increase your population when there is artificially increased resources around.). Then start mining etc operations with hired experts from other countries if you dont have experts on your own and start making capital to build things your self. West has already developed lots of technology to help you out and we have made strives on environmental protection, so feel free to use that information to protect your natural resources like farm lands. This is very complicated topic, but i hope you get my point. I genuinely wish Africa would start prosper, since this stagnation does not help anyone and only enables exploitation from corporations and countries like China. This way hopefully there is no need to migrate to other countries, since out systems simply cannot handle mass immigration that has been happening and i know those who come here are the rich and able, moving already limited number of better educated and well off people away from Africa that would be needed there to start building prosperous tomorrow. Maybe good start would be those who actually know English and have access to internet to start educating others on things like environmental protection, recycling, technology, farming and so on in grass root level. Leave the mysticism and religion, cause those seem to have negative impact on progress like Catholic mandate of not using condom and dont know where this come from but you can cure AIDS with raping virgin. Education and information should be good start far as i see. Just my two or three cents on topic.
@@TheGuruStud using those probably get you in trouble in China. Especially since they don't need any law that says "thou shalt not use encypted apps", they can just show up at your doorstep and make your life miserable until you start talking and then they'll get you for anything incriminating. PS.: if they are caught chatting with a "dissident" like serpentza, someone who talks shit about their country, through an unsupervised app then they're SURE to get in trouble.
I mail things all over the world, and for the past few months, when I send something to Taiwan, the label auto-print out, *TAIWAN PROVINCE OF CHINA* so I think you need to start making some travel plans.
alex carter Although Taiwan might legally be a province of China (although I don’t know much about this), Taiwan is under no control by the CCP, nor is it even remotely communist. Taiwan is an independent democratic “country”.
I am so glad you didn't fall for that honeytrap. I know it was pretty obvious, but people can be vulnerable or easily distracted. Hope you are safe and continue to stay safe!
I'll certainly never visit China again, but China is a danger to the rest of the world. It has to be stopped. I think President Trump is making some good moves to contain China.
@@thatguy-qb6up not true at all any paid VPN service is next to impossible to crack unless you have the master key, unless they can get hold of your computer and planting surveillance on it they have ZERO chance of tracking you. the encryption is estimated to take 10 to the power of 2 times the age of the universe to crack even with modern super computers the brain cannot even comprehend that length of time.
Makes me wonder. I've never been to China, but the amount of Chinese having tried to text me in the last two years, (and trying to brush it off as a wrong text) if I am on anything of theirs
Well, there is an enormous economic crisis going to happen in China, so their government will probably fall soon. Probably will be the same in the rest of the world but China's is going to be HUGE.
Don't be discouraged. It's still a nice place to visit. Lots of history. Just try not to think about CCP when you're visiting. It's pretty easy not to see the ugly side of china.
A great look into what it's like living in China. Authoritarian government is not good, no matter whether it's a right- or left-wing fundamental ideology. Thanks for your reports!
Quite similar in Thailand, with having to report one's address etc. The Thai army has always had its tentacles in government here, coup after coup. They know where foreigners are, albeit it is very laidback and nothing like being followed or harassed as in China. Suspect Thai immigration took their cue from the Chinese.
Friend of mine had a similar experience- they had done research on him and then placed a very attractive woman next to him at the airport (China). This woman purported to be very knowledgable in the areas my friend worked in. She offered to give him a lift back to her place so they could discuss their mutual interest. My friend immediately spotted the trap - what are the odds of a beautiful woman sitting next to you, who also knows your area of expertise? - and politely declined the offer. My friend doesn't vlog or make anti-Chinese statements, he was just a guy in China, on a business trip. I mention this because don't think you have to be Ernesto Guevara to get their attention, they love picking up people, at all levels, who might later prove useful.
They love to get their hands on phones and laptops and a woman like that can be enough of a distraction to get the task done. Industrial espionage is very valuable.
This happened to me in China when I was there for only 5 days. Cliche "beauty" porcelain skin Chinese woman came to sit next to me smiling at me and trying to initiate conversation. The only problem I have with this is that I was only there for 3 days and not for business purposes. How does the CCP know to target me in such a short amount of time?
In Canada they found special police station that monitors chinese-born-canadian-citizen pretending to help them socially. '' Clandestine Chinese police stations were reported to operate in Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto.''
Comrade remember China is your father and mother! We must see the truth and know sacrifice! Our enemies are every where and you must join as one! We are one so stop listening to the propaganda of the USA!
@@deejay7339 True, they got want right now, but they always regret done something which they think it was right at that time. Like the "Cultural Revolution". History is just repeating.
When I lived in Beijing in 2006, I went to a state sponsored dinner and was interviewed for Chinese TV. I thought I talked about how I liked the history and enjoyed visiting all the ancient buildings because we don't have anything like them in the US. Later, I was given a copy of the video, but they had someone do a voiceover of my comments. Apparently, what I really said was that China was a great place, it was better than the US and I wanted to live there forever.
What happened after that??
@@ghost_raven8995 I left the next year.
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You said you wanted to live there forever!!!
That's how they create propaganda.
:), there you know the tricks!
Living in China as a foreigner sounds like being on probation, forever.
Preach. I live in Wyoming, USA which is essentially the antithesis of a surveillance and security state like the PRC. I could not learn to live with that.
@@TheHamburgler123 Well, the NSA for sure knows a lot about you. They just don't care about the security part.
@@belgarath6508 Yes, I don't doubt there's info caught in the dragnet but there's nothing like the social credit system. Have you ever been to Wyoming? There aren't cameras anywhere except maybe the bigger towns (there aren't really any "cities" unless you count 55k living in one place a "city"). I suppose the interstate highways also have cameras, cameras normally just monitored by the WYDOT for traffic and transportation issues, that could be used by the feds if they needed to follow someone.
It really comes down to how information is weaponized too. I can be some insane weapons hording maniac that talks shit about the federal government openly. Unless I make a credible threat, even if I'm known by the feds and they have a detailed file on me, guess what happens? Nothing. Try doing that in China and see how long you last before getting disappeared at 3AM.
@@TheHamburgler123 what?? I haven't heard that before. Why do you say Wyoming is like this? I've been there and didn't have to report to authorities or be followed by an agent..
@@KharlHungus I'm saying it's the complete opposite of China. It's way too rural and there are almost no cameras aside from the major highways (which are used for legitimate purposes). China has cameras everywhere, something like one for every six people in the country (so hundreds of millions).
Everyone is so polite staying quiet in the street while he films
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Yeah *mindblown* 😮
It’s a green screen of a recording
@@willbeerr r/whoosh
@@tuguldurm9302 do people still use r/woosh🤣
Omg wtf.. Seriously... Thats extremely funny 😂
This true. I know a Chinese woman who hasn't lived in China for over a decade but has recently been contacted by the Chinese police attempting to find out where she lives.
There is Chinese police stations hiding in takeaways across the globe, look at the one busted in glasgow!
All Han Chinese are the property of the Chinese Communist Party.
If they contant me like that i will fall for it😂
It’s absolutely lame because it’s incredibly easy to find where people live today.
@@5150BudThat takes time though. And if your citizens answer truthfully anyway why bother?
And if they don’t answer truthfully? Well then they have something to hide and you just discovered a “criminal”
"The Chinese police are very chill... They only raided my apartment multiple times!"
That seemed a strong pivot
Haha lol... If that's chill, imagine when they get even a little razzed
The guys raided most probably from police counter intelligence/terrorism department or military police
IKR? lmao. This guy has high tolerance for what is okay and not. Wouldnt want to live there even if they paid me.
I don't think that's what he means.
Of course the multiple raids are tyrannical and not chill. But the police who carried out the orders were chill.
To that CCP agent reading the comments: Taiwan number one
And also a extra message from a Englishman from UK. The great country of Taiwan does not belong to China Taiwan is its own country and a free nation from the ccp so hands off.your so eager to take Taiwan into China that your forget Taiwan has far more friends around the world right now than China
@@paulmiller3409 Hey CCP. You have illegally occupied China and Tibet. China belongs to the democratic govt in taiwan.
@@Jeevanmn Don't forget the "other" parts of China that don't have a Han Chinese majority Xinjiang and inner Mongolia.
To that same CCP WuMao:
动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门
@HEUER FRANZ and then get their economy bankrupted by china embargoing everybody.
anyways, death to ccp
When I used to live in china, I had an encounter with a woman I had never seen before in an elevator where she asked me tons of questions and your video has made me realised that was most likely a police officer. Thanks serpentza!
Why would anyone in their right mind choose to live in china is something I'll never understand
@@orcckaa on me
@@orcckaa some people like to see the world. Other people close them selves off to one place. They are boring. “They” are you. You are boring.
@@jonboy9734 its not boring to not want to go to a country that doesnt value human rights, and can easily detain and ruin you for no reason.
@@jonboy9734 you dont know a loot about China, do you?
I lived in China for 6 months . Yes they are watching you!!!!!
I'm watching you too! I love your pants.
@@Rugmunchersauce3 what.
naw
@@Rugmunchersauce3I’m watching you too. Your left overs from last night were delicious
@@ellie6718😂😂😂😂 did you put the empty plates in the sink after you were done?
I don't quite understand this cultural obsession with “saving face" in China. From my point of view, blaming others for your own mistakes is weak and cowardly.
This culture isn't just part of China, it's all the way back to philippines too and a tiny bit ingrained in Japan on the elders. It's mostly Asia.
Politicians in every country do this "saving face"
Saving face is a product of collectivism. You should look into the concepts of individualism vs. collectivism and Hoffstead’s other dimensions of culture.
China used to have Honor and integrity, now they have nothing.
@Pasha Staravoitau Collectivism is the faulty aspect of their culture.
That honey trap was about as subtle as a clown in a circus. If that happened to me, I'd suspect it was some kind of scam and just blocked them.
Clown country
You would think it would be effective. But the thing is 99% of men get basically no attention from attractive women, ever. So that already stands out. And after that we don't know how to deal with being flirted with. Add an atmosphere where we know surveilance and we are always under scrutiny, and it comes off as more confusing and threatening than sexy.
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Be fair now, it was slightly more subtle than the average random msg request on Facebook.
Their tactics are lame af😂😂 English horrible af
They actually tried to lure you with someone less attractive than your wife.
i wonder if they really thought it would work , like given the endless surveilance , they should know it wouldnt work
@@mariolis Like he said it is just nationalist types, so they don't really have good information.
Mutual attraction is subjective.
Like Winston said, it was only a picture, & it may have been a male CCP operative trying to set him up.
Mongs, AIR?
You’re one of the true investigative journalists of our time Serpentza.
I appreciate your circumspect style, your attention to detail, the distinctions you make between the Chinese Govt, the culture, the people, the customs and your dedication to the truth.
Your channel is a fascinating insight into an opaque society that never ceases to amaze.
Thank you for your awesome work.
Their degree of paranoia is a big clue as to just how bad their intentions are, based on how bad they perceive other people's intentions to be. Huge red flag, pun intended.
Very well said. It gives me chills thinking about the things are happening
Well said. Took me a second lol but I got it bow!
See what I did there as well. 😁
People mistrust other people because they think those people are doing the same things they are doing.
They assume everyone is as malicious as them. They're afraid of retaliation that never comes.
Quite sure that watching these videos has fully dissuaded me from ever visiting China. I’d be under surveillance at all times.
Same. It seems like a fascinating place, but also not a safe place.
Pretty sure you'd be mostly unfazed by everything if you aren't an influencer.
Do you _really_ wanna take that risk?
BS. I have been to China several times. Yes, some people, like the airport authorities are rude, the people are a little rough and the food sucks. But I found it a lot safer than visiting India.
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If you have to compare ANY place to Afghanistan you know the place you're comparing it to is already a shithole.
Tell me a shill without telling me you're a shill holy shit.
I haven't watched this guy for awhile but I've just realised he is called Winston which is amusing because the guy in Gerorge Orwells book '1984' was called 'Winston' and he was hounded and oppressed by a communist authoritarian state much the same as Winston here. lol
You comment "This guy" as if he's some abstract entity or figment. Pretty sure Winston, like most TH-camrs, actually reads the comments.
@@blahdiblah2169 My use of language was intentional and Winston already liked my comment as everyone can see so I'm pretty sure he doesn't need you to be offended on his behalf.
Why are you assuming that @@blahdiblah2169 considered @devonian 's comment as offensive? If you read the comment he wrote and manage not to get offended and hurt by the "barely existing, at worst ever so mild" critique.. he just pointed out that this comment section can be used for direct communication with Winston, that he is not removed from his comment section.
If anything you could say that his comment wasn't really relevant, or helpful. But where does the part where you see him being offended or even emotionally invested appear?
Well 1984 government is ingsoc not communist but yeah cool reference
"When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger."
My best friend since practically birth decided he wanted to teach overseas, taught in American Samoa, Turkey, Belize, Rwanda where he met his girlfriend now fiance, but the one place he refuses to ever go back is China. He was hospitalized five times for respiratory issues, they never actually fixed the electrical and other problems in his apartment, and on his last night there, the local prefecture official in charge of the education ministry or whatever (who he had never met before this point) showed up at his hotel and invited him to dinner, and when they got to what I assume was some nice restaurant for foreigners and dignitaries his daughter was there all dolled up. The guy ended up leaving my friend there with his daughter, and after a few hours, my friend got up, said he was going to use the bathroom, left and finished packing up all his stuff and went and stayed overnight in the airport because he was worried about what might happen had he stayed. Probably not going to get arrested or something, but why risk anything at that point? Like it was so transparently obvious what was happening.
Did that official wanted your friend to marry his daughter?
@@marvin95 Probably, he didn't stick around to find out lol
@@marvin95 more than marrying, i think she wanted him as a "pet"
I think you're very brave for having made those kinds of videos over the years. Thank you!
Damn I'm surprised to see you here.
he sure is.
As a German...glad to see you guys here! A much larger part of Germany should speak out against the CCP and its atrocities!
@@samuela2593 Yeah, sadly it just seemed to have gone away recently. Even when Hong Kong was in danger people didn't really seem to care. But everyone went to the streets for BLM. Which is of course important but I'd think an oppressive regime trying to take over/cencor an entire city of freedom-loving people would be important as well.
@@GetGermanized Yes, I get what you mean and I totally agree! In particular considering issues like Xinjiang, there seems to be a clear mismatch between people's concern about Uighurs and people of African descent! Obviously, those are two completely separate issues, but Germany is never too late to point fingers at the US (and rightfully so in most cases), yet you dont see that happening with China!
You should get a CIA baseball cap. And then wear it on video and say "I am not from CIA" That would give them work for months.
Maybe even alternate between CIA, MI6, FSB, Mossad, etc. caps, written and stuck on Post-It notes.
sign me up i want my stipend for investigating your ass lol
yea they are paranoid they think every foreigner that lives in China is a CIA agent
@@dariomladenovski7047 oh i believe it, but they are projecting, it sems like a Chinese espionage tactic.
Hahahaha….
*This dude literally had the Chinese equivalent of a personal FBI guy*
It think it is more like an entire KGB team ;)
@@a64738 I wouldn't take it so lightly.
Autocracy is a meme
For people that do bad things. Yes, not for people who have nothing to hide.
I might go and talk shit about China so I can feel wanted.
Your courage in reporting the truth is admirable and a testament to your integrity. Big American fan
Well, I understand the whole "Japan is bad" especially after the atrocities of WWII committed in China. But you are right, you can't blame an individual for the actions of a government. (Again, I understand, but not agree.) That being said, the CCP is scaring me the more I learn about modern day China.
why would you say you especially understand the Japan is bad mentality... don't be feckless, call it what it is, disgusting racist government propaganda.
@@water8970 Because there are still survivors of the Nanjing massacre. In many instances Imperial Japan was worse that Germany, especially towards their enemies.
‘Understand’ does not mean ‘agree with’. I don’t believe the father’s sin should be blamed on the child.
But man, what Imperial Japan did to both China and Korea is some of the worst atrocities in human history.
(As in turn I can understand a Japanese person being pissed at Americans for dropping a couple nukes.)
@@christianjadot4459 let's not forget that the Chinese also massacred 1.2 million tibetans in 1949
@@michaelwittman4023 By no means! Always remember Tibet!
@@michaelwittman4023 sorry but isnt this whataboutism?
“The police were really chill, I have to give them that… So at 2am the police were hammering on my door and burst into my apartment photographing and questioning me.” This is wild
The police were chill...until they weren't
At least they are uniformed! XD
Did they hang you upside down naked as they questioned you while they were hooded, periodically striking you with a black snake whip.....like they DID me?
Dudes from Africa....so China is chill.
@@blackholeentry3489 Did they at least give you a Happy Ending? 🤣
You can agree to meet in a hotel, then change meeting address 15 mins before the meeting, then film the people rushing into the new address and expose who they are
smart
Bollywood style to concoct fake news while speaking in fork tongue to portray his self created of " the poor victim imagery to hoodwink and mislead his naive followers"
They probably just want to know his general location by asking for a hotel
did u never see some spy movies? they wait till he comes 2 the hotel. and the "Girl" isn't there so he leave and then they follow him to his home. that's how it works.
@@panicdispenser6586 or he's kidnapped
When I would meet with business folks in China or have meals with them, They often spoke Chinese to each other right in front of me, Confident that I did not understand it. ( which I didn’t ) But I made it a habit to suddenly glance over at whoever was speaking, or to suddenly change my expression with say a furrowed brow, or a abrupt smile. And the Chinese around me would suddenly stop talking for a moment, and one of them would ask, in Chinese, whoever there had the most dealings with me if they were SURE I didn’t speak any chinese. To which the person would assert I did not. I did this just to keep them guessing, and make them self conscious about speaking about me in front of me.
It breaks my heart how the Chinese government is trying to “buy Africa” but then do this insanity to black people in particular…
Girl I'm from Zambia and lemme tell you there is so many of these damn people over here and so few who are kind and respectful. Most of them have such inflated ego's and treat us like we are backwards just because we are African. This is why I like to focus on the ones I meet who are kind and open minded because the rest can piss you off into catching an assault charge.
If they do end up owning Africa completely, African natives will have a hard time. Hell, China already has concentration camps for their citizens. Chinese would move to Africa for work and Africans would become second rate citizens.
@@amandam120 how could they be second rate citizens in their own country? That makes no sense lol. They can just deport them back to mainland china
@DJKSA the bigotry of the few misrepresents the many
@@cela9852 y'all need to fight back
As much as I always wanted to visit China because of the history, temples, the Great Wall, I know myself enough that I wouldn't be able to keep my mouth shut if I witnessed some of the governmental interactions with its citizens. I feel more comfortable visiting South Korea, Japan, Vietnam.
Are you really a witch 😀
@@ScribblebytesWorldwide why? Are you?
you should really not waste a moment to visit when it is possible but if your intention was to stir up sentiments and cause rife in the Chinese system then don't.
@@wayangpok why is it you would think that way? I have watched several people who live full time in China, they talk about how things aren't what a westerner would expect, like if someone passes out on the street, no one will lend a hand because there have been scammers that wind up sueing the person who tried to help. I just feel it wouldn't be a comfortable vacation if I was faced with seeing that or some injustice that is accepted there, that isn't accepted elsewhere.
@@waterwitch8902 Because there's too much hearsay you are hearing. Experience it yourself without any reservations as you would with any country you visit, having their good and bad sides, and then be a better judge and opinion leader. Good luck.
I looked for serpent "fraud" "exposed" I'm going to laugh for a week. Love you, Winston. Be strong. For those Chinese intelligence agency people who are watching this, you stand on the shoulders of a great history and a great civilization. It grieves me that people smear Winston. It undermines people's respect for you. It shames you. Winston is just an ordinary guy doing ordinary things.
Why not grow a pair of balls and join the Let's talk China live show for a conversation? Don't be scared when people see through the crap
@@leedshuaren say it again without crying
@@leedshuaren growing balls so the CCPs TH-cam can chop them right off?
SIR! YES SIR!
Yeah, but instead of shaming him it honors him as he stand's strong and remains moral
@@leedshuaren Absolutely, Racist Snake needs to be exposed. He's afraid of being exposed and loose all his TH-cam Income. That's why he's using all this reverse psychology to discredit real opinions and voices by claiming that they are paid by the Chinese gov. As a result anyone saying real facts will just be walled off. A smart person will see through all of that. Its devious, but what did you expect from someone calling himself as a Snake.
A man I know was on a business trip in an industrial city in China. The people were hard working and the air was dirty and the people not wealthy. Out of the mist appeared a young beautiful woman beautifully dressed, who spoke perfect English who asked him for help to find her hotel. He pointed out the obvious honey trap and she broke down and begged him just to spend time with her so she would not get punished. He diverted all conversation only to her, and she respected not asking any questions and thanked him and there was no touching. She apologized for her attempts.
May be she wanted to get married to you and fly out of China !!!
That's actually interesting
@@Nanw23 found the fed.
Sounds fake asf maybe next time create a strory that could actually happen
This sort of thing really does happen to people with access to sensitive trade secrets or military intelligence
I never knew China was this way and I'm glad you gave me a heads up because China is not on my to do list plus I'm a black man so I know they don't want me there.
It's unfortunate but they are sometimes not even wanted in Africa :/
Racism is much higher in countries that are racially homogenous.
@@audience2 yes that is true because of the cultural clash, slowly integrating immigrants is the way to go. Unfortunately here in canada we are importing immigrants on mass and seeing alot of "racism" because of this.
I wouldn't travel to China for 2 million bucks!
@@audience2 true
Who woulda thought you’d be at war with the Chinese government sometime in your adult life. Good luck my friend, stay safe and attentive if you choose this path.
It's probably more accurate to say they are at war. He's just living 🤣
Governments are elected ......
@@daibhi8030 Not authoritarian governments, only democratic ones.
I'm really respectful of his work. No journalist anywhere in this world have such knowledge about China and the guts to say things. You're a hero Winston.
Lived there 11 years and no bad experiences. Never grilled by police. Went late after returning feom abroad quite a few times and always told "next time come within a day or two."
This guy made bideos critical of China so he got hassled. He brought it ENTIRELY UPON HIMSELF.I have many criticisms but I do not make videos critical of the Chinese govt. He messed with fire and got burned.
Winnie the pooh is the leader. They don't understand how honey traps could ever fail.
Winnie the Poo to the n power
AHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHA
HAHA I bey he hates that nickname
@@rich1051414 And who would that be, Dickie Boy? Say it if you mean it...
lol winnie the poo
Props for saying “I’m not American but if the CIA wants to use me I’ll gladly accept”
Well, since the CIA was formed from the OSS which was staffed by ex-NAZIs after WWII - there is that.
I'd suggest not getting involved with the CIA if you have any scrap of ethics.
LoL, he should be careful, what he wishes for. He might just get it 😎🤔
@@dionbryant330better the devil you know than the devil you don't
@@JonySmith-bb4gx there's literally a camp dedicated to torturing inmates in china
@@JonySmith-bb4gx They're both shit. China just tries hard (and poorly) to pretend it isn't.
I am an Indian been living in china for 5 years and I confirm that whatever this guy says is true. Including the "NO INDIANS" board infront of that restaurant. Every Chinese person is not like that but ofcourse there are many like that.
Bro you got some ridiculously huge set of balls. Exposing china while living there. Gotta respect it. Subbed! /
You didn't read the description.
@@yourdeal2408explain more please.
@@yehanravindu722150 cent party soldier making baseless allegations again
@@dopedrums this was the first video of his i watched so i didn't realise he's left China but still even when he was there he was speaking up and even now he's not particularly safe from the ccp they've done some very shady shit even outside of China
No way its Perrell laquarius brown
Yes, start airing the dirty laundry.
If they back off, perhaps you won't need to publish the worst of it.
The ball's in their court.
Call off the dogs, Winnie The Pooh.
The way they choose to approach things calls into question whether they have balls at all...
Xi Xi 🧸!
In 2009 I spent 2 weeks in China to adopt my son. In Wuhan, I had a very odd encounter with a young man that spoke perfect english. He tried to convince me to deviate from my plans and go with him. I refused and walked away from him. From that point, I didn't communicate with anyone that wasn't necessary to complete that portion of the adoption. The next town I was in to finalize the adoption for the US side, I found a small playground for my son to play at. The first day there a cop walked up to me and we started talking. He also spoke perfect english. I went to that park daily to let my son burn off some energy. I was there at different times of the day. But each time, that same cop was there. Didn't take long to figure that out. I assumed he was there to spy on me and get as much info from me as possible. I thought my background as an Army vet (combat arms with sec clearance and a cop for over a decade at that point). Anyway, I played along with him so my son could play there. The last time I saw him, He was getting kind of pushy and asking me questions about what I thought of the U.S.. I was well aware of what he was doing. So I steered the conversation back to the Chinese Govt and life there. I admit, this guy got under my skin so I got a bit lippy with him. I brought up the topic of free speech and our ability to open speak negatively of our govt. He immediately told me that they couldn't do that. I responded by saying that anyone who does that there would end up standing in front of a T59 tank in Tianeman Sq.! Oh he got pissed! He dropped his nice act, took a step toward me and stopped. Being a cop myself, I could tell that he wanted to put hands on me, but stopped. Well, after that I took my son and went back to the hotel. I never went back to that playground. Knowing we we leaving 1 day later, I only went where I was supposed to and didn't stray from the group of other adoptive families! I will never go back to that country. Absolutely hated that place.
But the same government gave you a son, kind of ironic, don't you think？
@@lulubumonNit at all. It’s well known that Chinese want a “perfect son”. What people don’t realize is how literal that really is. They are so superficial in that statement that if they have a sin with a visible birthmark, they will give him up for adoption.
A few months after bringing him home, I took him to a Chinese restaurant. He and Insat down and the lady that owned the place came to our table and asked who he belonged to (because I’m white and he is Chinese). I told her that he is my son and we adopted him from China. She immediately responded by saying “what’s wrong with him”. I grabbed my son and left.
The Chinese look at it like they are dumping their trash on us for a profit. In reality, it’s just bother step in them destroying their future.
@@jeremyblanton1445 I cannot deny a lot chinese families want healthy babies, who dosent ？But sometimes there's also a factor of medical costs, especially when everything burns out and its still not enough. For the poor families, choose between a new member and all the saving, literally everything because china dosent have a welfare system, its a very hard decision. Some of them choose to give up the new born babies with disabilities or birth problems to give them a better chance for life. I think the traditional Chinese idea of " the perfectness" plays some factors but not all. Don't forget, there's also time in the US history, some parents
had no choice but to sell their children, it is the Great Depression. I meaning no offense, just to compare so you know humanity is actually not that far than you think it is.
@@lulubumon I understand that. Hard times makes for hard choices. I have no problem with that. If you're life will never be adequate to take on the responsibilities of raising a child, and you know it. It's the right decision. I'm not faulting anyone for that. And yes, I realize that many Chinese families make this decision. I'm referring to the parents who have a healthy child, but the child isn't "normal" or "perfect" who literally dump the child and try again. Example, my son was born deaf. His biological parents abandoned him in public, near a Buddhist temple (a couple hours outside of Wuhan) when he was 10 months old. I can tell you that 10 months is the approximate time that most parents begin to suspect the child may have hearing issues. That is the exact time that my wife and I began to suspect our oldest daughter was deaf.
They abandoned him at 10 moths, suspect he was deaf, with zero communication skills in the streets. That is some cold hearted crap. They threw him away in a public street.
Thankfully the police found him and he lived in a police station for 3 days while they tried to locate his parents.
After giving up on that, they paced him in an orphanage. He bounced around to multiple orphanages and foster homes until, about 2 1/2 years later, we brought him home.
Again, I'm not bashing the families that had to put their kids up for adoption for the benefit of the kid. I applaud that and realize that has to be one if the hardest decision they could make. I'm referring to those that throw their kids away like a piece of trash.
This is where the Chinese Govt. comes in. In a Communist culture, the government is supposed to care for its citizens by (among other things) provide for their medical and educational needs. When he was brought into the orphanage system no one did anything to see if he was actually deaf and never bothered with any testing or attempts to identify if he is deaf, if so, how severe is the hearing loss/deafness.. There was zero effort to diagnose anything. So much for the government caring for its most defenseless... Then, there is education. In China, if you live outside Beijing or Shanghai, and you have a kid that is deaf, you are pretty much screwed. In that geographically huge nation, with billions of people, the only two places that the government will provide ANY sign language classes for deaf kids is in those two cities. So, they have 100% turned their backs on any deaf person outside of those two cities. This is a perfect example of how much they care for their citizens.
Another example of how disabled people are looked after in china. I spent a week in Wuhan. Every day I would make time to throw my son on my back and walk around the city (within close proximity to my hotel). This was important for many reason. For us to bond and for him to begin to trust me. And, I would see something, get his attention, point to it, then show him the sign for that object. I was exposing him to sign language by walking the streets of Wuhan. While doing so, I learned a whole lot about the city, country and its citizens. I saw several severely disabled people on those streets. to preface this, I'm not a soft hearted sap. I'm an Army vet and was a street cop in the most dangerous neighborhood, of the most dangerous city in the US. Cant tell you how much blood guts and gray matter I dealt with. I'm very comfortable being around chaos, violence and pure evil. So, it was heartbreaking to walk the streets of Wuhan and see dozens, if not more severely disabled people being used for profit. There were a ton of people that had severe cerebral palsy that were literally lying in the streets, unable to move due to severe disability, covered in dirt, hadn't showered in days, disgustingly filthy covered in dirt, mud and urine. Someone drug these poor people out into the streets and dumped them there with a cup to collect money from the public out of pity.
Back to the honey trap stuff. in addition to the cop I mentioned previously, almost daily, I ran into random people that approached me for various reasons, and were overly polite to help. Every one of them, like the cop spoke perfect English. Here are a couple examples of how random and bizarre these incident were. At a McDonalds, the first day in country, and I hadn't gotten my son yet, a teenaged boy approached me and asks if I need help ordering. I declined his offer. He then stood next to me striking up a conversation. He spoke grammatically perfect english. We made small talk as I was waiting for my food then followed me to my table and sat down to continue talking. I asked him why he wasn't in school. HE said he was on a lunch break. He then insisted that I accompany him back to his school and come to his class so I could meet his fellow class mates. I was shocked by that! I refused. I then immediately finished my lunch and left, He followed me for a block or two before I insisted he leave me alone because I had an appointment to meet my son for the first time. He then asked if he could go with me! I had to raise my voice at him and tell him to go away and leave me alone.
The next day my son and I were eating breakfast in the hotel dining room. the waiter, again spoke perfect english and was way too nice, like overly nice. He pretty much ignored every other table in the dining room and stood right next to my table and continued to try and initiate a conversation. I had to get him to go away by explaining to him, that this was the first real meal that I was able to have with my son. He got the hint and went away. Then about half of the time I was coming or going from the hotel I just happened to run into him. Hmm, not suspicious at all. Then one of the last nights I stayed at that hotel, this hotel waiter told me that he was getting off work soon and invited me to go a bar with him and his friends. WTF? NO WAY IN HELL! I would never take a kid to a bar at home with my own friends. Let alone, take him to a bar half way around the world in a city that I don't know with people that I didn't know. The weirdness continued for the rest of the time I was there. All of these weird interactions with people I'd never met, inviting me to deviate from my schedule to go do weird shit was pretty obvious.
Just like your insistence that my observations were incorrect. You are starting to remind me of many of the people that I was referring to. Why are you so persistent to make me change my opinion on this matter? Why are my opinions and observations so important to you? Kinda weird!? making me start to change opinions of who exactly I'm interacting with.
@@lulubumon LOL! Prejudice is to prejudge or have a preconceived notion about a specific group of people. It has nothing to do with an opinion that was formed after the fact. I had no opinion of china before going there. My opinion was formed from actually being there and experiencing these incidents first hand. If you want to sling insults, at least use the correct terminology.
I don’t know your involvement with china,and I really don’t care. I was simply responding to the video to share my personal experiences. You chose to single me out and engage in a conversation in which you have zero personal experience in. You responded to my response with a preconceived notion. This was and is apparent. Yet, I chose to respond and start a conversation explaining my perspective. Yet, you don’t give a damn about my experiences (reason for my initial post). Initiated this conversation in an effort to virtue signal for some reason. You are only concerned with trying to insult or change my opinions. Sorry, didn’t work. So, I’m done with your ideological crap. Enjoy your superiority complex and false sense of open mindedness.
I had an airport stop in Shanghai once, wasn't entering into China at all, only changing planes. The police in the airport insisted that they scan my passport, and asked why I stopped in China. They knew I worked for the US Government when they looked at my passport pages, and started to ask me strange questions. After I showed them the onward ticket to Thailand, they finally let me leave. I won't ever book a flight that changes planes in China again. I can only imagine how bad it could have become.
Of course they insisted on scanning your passport, it's the same in most countries including the UK, it's to ensure there isn't an international arrest warrant out on the name in the passport, an extradition request or whatever. And as for asking you 'strange questions', same when you transit US because in many airports transit is not a secure area separate from arrivals.
As government workers, we're instructed to avoid any flights that have layovers in China specifically for that reason.
I'm honestly surprised you even took it in the first place.
@@georgekearse2062found the Chinese shill
My man, you are from the US? They are exactly the same if not worse than China. They look into your phone and computers, let you hand over your socials, ask a bunch of 'strange questions'. They take fingerprints and Irisscans if they want to. They do this with everyone, even tourists from European countries
It's even worse if you stop in the US frankly.
The level of awareness the Chinese authorities maintain on the activities of people travelling there , speaks volumes as to why Chinese residents are so scared to speak out against the Chinese government even when they’re over seas , it’s genuine Orson Wells shit
Ummm you mean George Orwell?
@@gamingchamp6728 I feel so bad for laughing at this...
ORSON WELLS 😭😭😭😭🤣🤣
Lemme guess you never read it, but it's your go to adjective for what you deem authoritarian lmaoooo
When will the Chinese people realize they are more than the government officials.
@@TurboTroller
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Unfortunately I stayed in China for two years. Everything he is saying is absolutely true.
Kind of makes me glad I never went. Sadly none of the Chinese friends talk to me anymore either.
This is a fact that does exist! But getting this ID isn't about monitoring you, it's about managing! So this is why China is so safe and people can still go shopping at night!
@@toyzeean7509 People go shopping at night because a SWAT team from the CCP can raid your house at night and take you away for "re-education" only for your organs to turn up in a hospital in Bejing.
@@davexb6595 absurdities
@@toyzeean7509 Truth hurts. The CCP send in armed police to raid people's houses simply for not advising the local police what you are doing and where you are living. That is a fact.
This is what the CCP is trying to impose on the rest of the world.
We understand that you have to write what you write or else the CCP might send your family members off to "reeducation camp".
Even in Germany and Switzerland the hotel staff is sending the names of the guests to the police. I worked there so I know this for sure
but they can't find out the killer of that kazakh citizen?
I was once approached by a Chinese lady in my own country, and she went through a whole bunch of angles flattering me, asking me about my work, telling me her husband was away a lot, wanting me to boast about how much access to information I had at work, on and on..... do they really think this would work?
Problem is, it could have been either side, and I didn't want to get involved with any of them, so I played super dumb.
It worked on at least one US Congressman who is STILL on sensitive committees. So, yes, they think it works.
@ONE MAN ARMY Either she was working for China and they were looking for commercially valuable information; for a state sponsor of terrorism and was looking for information about critical infrastructure; or for our side and was looking for weak links.
@ONE MAN ARMY Yes, and the password for the nuclear codes is L3tmein!
yes, many guys are easily tricked by attractive ladies.
@onemanarmy4908Industrial espionage.
Been watching this guy for a couple of years now. I think I've probably seen every single video. He is always very honest, thoughtful and respectful. More importantly, he provides insight that otherwise might not have been seen from my location. Particularly, these days, these are very relevant insites.
If disrespecting the Chinese is thought as respectful, that's as dishonest and unthoughtful as it can get.
I love how they are so eager to expose someone of being corrupt by methods only corrupt people would come up with. They probably had a huge pikachu face.
🙀
@@kenziej5150 groom me
You are definitely a PATRIOT!! Please keep up the great work, exposing what others are afraid to do.
The irony is that CCP's efforts to discredit you only provide yet more "dirty laundry" to expose. Thank you for exposing it - that is very important work.
As a Chinese person my self seeing how these people treat other races and countries really hurts my soul. It sometimes make me feel disappointed to be from the same lineage of these people. And me living in a country where racial harmony is a huge aspect of life where all of us citizens learn to live together like normal human beings. This apparently made some chinese netizens calling me and my family "traitors" or "brainwashed".
Please don’t feel bad, it’s not your fault. You and your family are very brave and should be proud to stand up against what’s wrong even when it’s the norm.
don't you feel bad man, As an Indian, even i am feed with so much propoganda but i iwll still not dare to target anyone just cause our govt don't like them. thanks for putting your comments here.
Have you ever visited China? China and Chinese people are much better than this fool's narratives. seeing is believing.
You are brainwashed though, from the filth that is CCP Propaganda.
i suppose we'd say theyre brainwashed too hahaha
Should have asked her to hold an anti-CCP sign for max lulz
Lmao
LOL
or a "Free Tibet" sign.
YES!!!!!
Or dress as Winnie the pooh holding china flag
Many, many years ago, when I was stupid, I spent some time in prison and I became good friends with the only Chinese lad there. He was a very low ranked member of a Triad. He didn't CHOOSE to become one, he was extremely poor and really didn't have much choice. Anyway, cut a long story short, he was petrified that he would get deported back to China. He said he would get killed, probably within a week. I got out long before him, he was in for a long stretch and I tried to stay in touch (he wasn't a Gangster or a Thug, he was a nice kid, and quite lost), I got one letter from him in his broken Engrish but never heard from him again after that. I fear that his fear came true. 😔
Poor fella.
Seriously, “Engrish”?
@@jermmt Pretty sure that was a joke... i.e. how a Chinese person would say English...
What a silly comment. Most Gangsters and thugs come from poor backgrounds like this “nice fella” who committed a crime.
@@sandraa.7794 Not all those poor gangsters are good people.
My father was raised in a poor black neighbourhood and his relatives would fight and do things solely for fun or pride. A lot of gangsters just do crime for fun or social reasons, for example look at the kia boys today; They steal cars and do dangerous stunts for fun and glory, not "muh poverty". Walk around Chicago and you see plenty of examples of what I'm talking about.
There's a difference between being forced into a gang via threats and willingly being a gang member.
And, despite living in that environment, my father never joined any gangs or did crime. He was the victim of plenty of violent crimes, though.
what did the letter say?
"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say." Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones
You should ask Mr. Assange.
Quoting a shit show
@@AsukaLangleyS02 The ending was shit but the show was good for a bit.
Kinda reminds you of sencorship from TH-cam, Twitter, fb etc....
@Meng Mai Which country has no free press and only state propaganda again?
I remember me and a group of Kenyans tried to enter a club in Guangzhou back in 2017 but they straight up said "No Blacks!"
This happened to me in Busan Korea and I am white "no foriegners due to our customers request " The US is digressing in race relations due to woke culture. Like Rodney King said "can't we all just get along"
Understandable.
🙄 What I find to be so ass backwards about the Chinese is they're openly hostile towards their non citizens yet expect us to say nothing about our shit experience in their country. Did I get something wrong here I thought that's how reviewing works, if they wore treating people with the respect they deserve do they think people would have negative things to say about their country? China do not compute rational logic and reasoning it's all about how they can extract as much resources from you and bully you but expect you to just say nice things about them after, pfftt... nah we're used to telling entire countries and their bureaucrats to fuck off if we do not agree with their politics.
@@MisterKewlz Quite the slur
@FRosty npg no I guess you can't
I’ve been to China twice; I have no desire to return. I was treated well, but it is an extremely paranoid place, and the drivers are atrocious. My first drive , there were two cars casually hanging out on a highway, stopped in the middle two of 4 lanes, chatting over cigarettes.
Lmao what? Thats forbidden everywhere. You go off the highway for chit chat. No wonder you left.
@@kornelobajdin5889found the CCP honeytrap
Thanks for your integrity. This is important. God bless
I am about to start a whole argument in the replies with just one sentence.
"Taiwan is a independent country"
Your mom is an independent country
I'm sorry for being bad at making jokes
@Albert Felsen ah the Chinese Civil War never happened
@Albert Felsen lol rewriting history doesn't change it.
@Albert Felsen Go back to school, but first throw away your Chinese "history" books...
@Albert Felsen Albert, I'm not a Trump cultists, I am a free thinker, follow nobody, have no blind obedience for nobody, don't hate Jews, or Europeans. In fact, I'm European. I live in a country next to Belgium and Danmark, and I payed very well attention during my school time history and geography lessons...
So try something else.
Have a nice day.
O, and by the way, I traveled the world, was a few months in China, I loved most of the the people, but the system is brutal, it kills the free, creative mind. That's why they have to steal everything, they can't invent anymore, The CCP terrorsystem killed the creativity....
This sound so on par, I'm a European student studying abroad in another European country, I have a couple nice Chinese friends who invited me to an Asian party in which I met this awkward Chinese guy from a different university, the party ends, the next day he adds me on Facebook, the next day he messages me saying I should remove a video posted on my wall (by as 60year old German man)because it is offensive to Chinese people (the video in question is a cat holding money, the currency being Chinese Yuan), I decline, he becomes aggressive, I threaten to block him and he disappears, the following Wednesday I get an email from my university saying I'm being investigated for hate speech and misconduct, I appear before the dean and get even worse news, the police and Chinese embassy have also received a copy of the letter(and then contacted the university again). This was followed by an ultimatum, delete the video or my 4 years in medschool will be rendered null. The choice was obvious to me, I deleted the video, wrote an apology letter to the man and university and talked to the police explaining I didn't have malintent... I don't know what happened on the embassy side but I can't imagine I'm welcome in China any time soon!
Absolute madness
The perks of becoming a super power what if they really become superpower 😅 we are fucked
@@Siraj.Cj9 I wanted to visit my other friends from there but now I'm worried to step a foot in there
This is what karen move looks like but on national level.
@@TheCritizen did you read what I wrote, a post on my wall by a different person, the post is a cat video, the cat holding money which happens to be Yuans with the likeness of Chairman Mao on them thus the guy considered ME racist, I didn't even post it myself
I realized a few years ago...that when I went to China on business, there was this friendly guy my age that I kept running in to. He was so friendly and always asked me personal questions, almost like and interview...He asked I were Jewish or Catholic, he asked if I have a girlfriend, he asked if I have ever traveled to other countries and which ones. I ran into him on a campus where he approached me like a friendly colleague , then I ran into him at a cafe...more questions. Finally, I ran into him in a business park before a meeting.
The Western countries that have been invading and colonizing for the last hundred years have been saying that the victims of aggression are bad people. That's so funny.
@RonaldMutebo yes...he would come out of nowhere, we woukd be elated in our "coincidence and odd luck"...then chat a bit...at the time I was grateful to see a familiar face for the short time I was there. I assume now, that he was a scout for the region, perhaps?
@@johnnyg1933maybe a plainclothes policeman
@@johnnyg1933 that guy was sloppy. 3 times appearing to you is overkill. Then his line of questioning is even less subtle. One good thing about growing up in impoverished places is that you get fairly accustomed to dealing with people with ulterior motives. But at least you have experience for if there’s a next time!
Excellent programme. Found you for the first time today. What you are telling us is (a) more than interesting, and (b) truly scary. Perhaps it explains why so many young Chinese people want to leave their country and DO leave their country, coming to the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, etc.
Well I don't want to called them China anymore.
I'll called them "West Taiwan".
Because they already cyberbullying someone from Japan.
Taiwan Is technically the republic of china and Taiwan is the name of the island
nova 69 Yeah... what he say is correct because Mainland China is located on the west of Taiwan across the Taiwan strait... he want to change the name of China lol 😂
West DPRK
lol west Taiwan.
Northern Tibet, Southern Mongolia, West HongKong, Eastern Xinjiang...
For those China nationalist, let me break your internet. "Tiananmen Square 1989"
The socialist demo. Against the tanks
genious XD
Imagine back in 1989 the said demonstrator purportedly from China were screaming in American accented English " They are killing my people"
Wake up dude we all been duped by the Foreign financed riots which incidentally is still going on today financing riots in Venezuela, Cuba HK Bangkok Indonesia, India etc
@@taytk8005 right...
Pff, you amateur. Look at this:
动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门
"I'm a guy, yes. But I'm not that dumb." Is the best thing I've ever heard in my life lmao
😂😂😂
Ha ha ha
I think with this head was a good one
@Phi6er i think it confirms that this is a guy behind that screen cuz a girl would know how to act "normal" the way "she" talked was just so unnatural
Hope my dumb ass ex hear what other guys are saying. As he told me that I should not blame him for doing that (sleeping with the girl who try to seduce him or voluntary offer free sex) as any guy would accept the offer when i caught him red handed on the bed with another girl.
Indian American here. I visited Thailand, Singapore and Hong Kong in 2018. HK was probably the most enjoyable and I wanted to make a trip to Beijing or Shanghai and Tokyo next.
After reading this and watching some of your other videos, I am disgusted by China and have zero desire to go there. They don’t deserve any of mine or anyone else’s tourism income. I’m sure they love blonde haired, blue eyed people though. I’m sure they’re invited and welcomed everywhere.
I know a lot of TH-cam channels do this for only monetary gain. I know the video where you talked about the serial beach monkey likely was demonetized so I know you’re not doing this for money.
You’re spreading the truth risking your own well being just to educate and help others. It’s much appreciated.
It’s funny too because they want more tourism in china yet they’re actively making it harder to have a positive experience there
"I'm a guy yes but I try to think with THIS head" LOL good on you. I can only imagine how many guys fell for it and are now paying the price. Thanks for sharing your story and the truth with world!
Because of people like you, I find it increasingly difficult to find good things to say about China. Keep it up.
Good things?
I was supplied with pencils all throughout school so.....I couldn’t use them because you know....paws, but they were fun to chew onZ
There are many good things, but sadly the government and its blind supporters just sour much of it
Chow mein and orange chicken is gas tho...
The only good thing that I can think of China right now is their culture. Their products are low-quality trash, so expendable that they pile up and pollute the environment in no time compared to another country's standards.
You know you're popular when the Chinese government tries to catfish you. Lol
I doubt it was the Chinese gov. They already know anything they want and if they wanted to could have just bust down the door to his home and arrested him. The fact that they were trying to meet him in person and get his address makes me suspect it was someone working independently of the gov.
Send them my way idc ill smash the hell out of them.
@@saniwada lol either it's a scam or he made up story for clickbait. He is not important enough for CCP to care about( as he thought he is lol)
@@dinx3815 the ccp is petty enough to do that. Dont underestimate how easy it is to hurt Poo bear's feelings.
@kkthxk Vietnamese here, we are a Communist country too, please don't lump us with them.
First time I went to a police station to register where I was staying in China, in the police station in a dark corner there was a desk with a sign saying "registration of dogs and foreigners" ;)
It just shows how insecure they are in their empire-dreams.
Regimes that are afraid of people's opinions destroying their rule should not exists and should be overthrown.
The most hilarious part about it is they tried to tell people that communism was better and stronger than democracy back in 2020. So strong in fact that any criticism directed at any part of it will topple the entire thing therefore all dissent must be crushed and all previous mistakes must not be talked about.
@@rip8641 Um no China’s claim was that Democracy is a direct
path to communism if true all Democracy’s will become communist
this idea comes from the man whom founded communist China
and from what i seen different democratic world leaders do
i would say China might be right about that claim.
Good one
Empire dreams? Nightmare State more like it!
The way she kept repeating "Mr. Sterzel" reminds me of Agent Smith from The Matrix.
🕶 "Hello, Mr. Anderson."
@@omg5501 probably gonna get a virus if you did that
Mr Freeman
LoL
Howro Awek Ballwin
Hello, Captain Winky.
It's great to see someone speaking up about this nonsense that is still going on in the world.
How he casually calls Africans and others “undesirables” by the Chinese is crazy
@@19ate4That's called "clueless" 🙄
Sir: What an excellent public service you always provide...Your inciteful broadcasts are always TOP Notch
To all the chinese trolls in the comments:
Taiwan is a country
😂
Taiwan is # 1.
how Taiwan is a country?!!
什么!
Taiwan is a country and India supports Taiwan's freedom and respect to Dalai Lama .
This is one of the reason China hates India
If only the CCP would try to put this much effort into tracking down women, children and other people who have been kidnapped and trafficked.
(Now that I think about it, they form a major chunk of people involved in doing that.)
Why do you think I keep talking about Epstein, especially in the connection to him in Wuhan thanks to a Harvard scientist. I keep telling people no one safe every countries involved in this.
Theres probably some elder god pulling the strings, like in Big trouble in little China.
Generally across most nations victims of violent crime are primarily adult men. How about you don't discriminate. Don't be sexist. It's disgusting and is literally no different than from what's being talked about in this video.
@@organicmachines3225 majority of the victims are adult men? I think you got it twisted lol. The majority of the crime is committed by adult men 🙄 And also what country are you talking about. If it’s Asia, we already know the majority of victims are young people and women.
@@kiwiwooq How about you look it up instead of assuming. Remain with critical thinking skills. You have a childish mind. I am muting your replies.
This video was truely an eyeopening for me as to how they monitor people even after they left the country. Many thanks to you for your invaluable information. Wish you all the best and safety.
thank you and your friends for this report, and please stay safe, looking for next episode.
Can we please stop calling Xi Jinping Winnie the Pooh? I don’t have enough time to like all the comments.
If the Chinese ever take over we're going to be rounded up 😂😂
Fuck really PO xi
No. It’s fun! 😂
No! Not the Winnie-the-Pooh so kind... must call xi jin PIG 🐖.
🤣😂🤣
This my heartfelt appeal to the CCP: how come you never send ME any honeytraps?
RIGHT? I would've fell for it again...and again..and..and again.
We need to start posting controversial Chinese stuff on FB. maybe then....
I would've moved to China and become an informant by now
Because you don't cause enough trouble. I have had an approach this month. I have been slamming the Chinese Communist Party on LinkedIn
@@Reecesurbanangling lol then you wouldve been ignored and she would seek tyrone for her needs
@@mftripz8445 I'm black....
For me as russian China sounds like USSR on steroids 🤷🏼♀️
Rest of the world: Invents something.
China: Our invention. ( Soviet Anthem plays)
They copied the Soviet system and made it worse along the way. It's like going back in time 70 years, but with shiny buildings.
yes i agree
@@bellaggio1770 oh come on, at least China don't go assassinating people in other countries.
@@mannotwiththeplan Russian had successfully infiltrated the FDR administration and got us into WW2. I would recommend looking up Harry Hopkins and FDR's soviet ties.
Higher ground, is you Winston..I have watched your channel and CMilk for years..a couple of awesome people doing great work, keep up the fight…👍👍😎
There needs to be more people like you in this world. Its easy to say what you believe, but to actually stand up to it is extremely admirable. You genuinely help people.
It's so dumb. As much as I love my Chinese friends, a few of them are so lock in their own beliefs that the moment anything challenges them, instead of having a respectful and fact-based debate, they immediately lash out and calling names. Not the greatest way to solve any conflict lol. I don't want to diss anyone, but Chinese education system (there are others in the world, not just China's) tend to kill critical thinking or personal growth, and more focusing on "there's only one right method; don't challenge it, or you are wrong" mentality.
Sounds EXACTLY like an American Democrat!
@@lspringerjones You beat me to it.
lspringerjones Sadly the west is drifting towards that same path
It’s the same when trying to debate with religious people
While I can't disagree, neither the American nor British education systems help promote critical thinking either. Maybe 20-30 years ago moreso, but all you need to do is go compare test papers over the years and you'll realise the whole world over is being dumbed down. We're no longer taught analytical processes and healthy scientific skepticism, we're taught we already have the answers, and all you need to remember/receit/repeat information correctly to pass. It's quite the embarrassment to actually look into how easy test papers are these days, and kinda realise why every generation seems to keep getting dumber. Unless you can repeat your government's version of events, history and ideology - you're not a good citizen, and won't fit into society. That's not just a Chinese thing.
You can strongly correlate American nationalism with Chinese nationalism at times, both equally are blinded by their media and world view. The huge difference is that most Americans aren't afraid of speaking their honest opinion. whether it's against their own government or not.
Don't feel so lonely. I was accused of working for the CIA yesterday, by some wu-mao guy with a fake Japanese name, but I'm living in Taiwan. I said that I could use the extra paycheck.
Diewan number 1.
hahahahahaha. That's crazy.
Saying someone is from the CIA is a classic behavior of ignorant people outside the US (not saying all people outside the US are ignorant, just the ignorant ones seem drawn to this behavior). I spent some time in South America and I heard it all the time. I wonder if foreigners in the US get told they are from random spy agencies as well. Hard to believe but I would be interested.
Amazing content. As a European in my mid sixties my knowledge of China was limited to its a communist country. I didn’t understand how they monitored an entire population. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Winston, I take my hat off to you. Your honesty is & always has been, a breath of fresh air. But please, please be careful. CCP can be as underhand as the worst of organizations.
Stay safe Winston. All the best M8 from Scotland.
I second that. M5 from England. Agree buddy.
does the CCP have an over reach into San Diego, California?
It is amazing how far of a reach does CCP's new Hong Kong "security law" has, it basically gives the CCP authority to extradite "any" individual for a trial in Mainland China. I believe this "Security Law" is CCP's very first imperialistic move.
Q: How do you say "a free democratic China" in Chineese?
A: Taiwan!
They have a dictatorship and not many party options... so no. The only true democracy is direct democracy.
@@das81 what no country on earth has a direct democracy what crack are you smoking
@@helpmombeatsme9260 search Switzerland 🇨🇭 dumbo
Taiwan is the true China
@@FBISHOJI Taiwan may be Chinese
But doesn’t belong to CCP
Hey bro. I love you as a human being and the rest of your family. Do what’s safest and best for your family. You are brave, you show us your integrity nearly daily. Good luck to you hope we can meet one day!
Sasha Brown 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Praying you are safe and well with your family.
Stay vigilant !
You are doing SUCH a good job telling us what we need to know that the powers are scared of you !
So I'm a black south african man and yeah... Guess I'm never stepping foot on Chinese soil.
... Well, I didn't expect this comment to get noticed like this. Thanks for all the opinions fellow humans
I'm from the United States and I would never do it either. It's just the sane choice.
You don't have to leave home boet, you already are on Chinese soil. They own us!
@@Gigi_and_jaden How?
@@adangbe Multi billion infrastructure projects, funded by China to all over Africa, with Made in China "quality" with decades long maintenance deals that most likely has some rather "interesting" fine print ending up costing African countries way more than if it was made locally and this is for exchange for rights for natural resources, but since its China they will just take everything from the ground and leave toxic waste land after them. Western corporations sure are assholes that do similar stuff if they can get away with it, but least they havent necessarily bought and paid for your whole political leadership of the country and international organizations.. with China if you want to get it to stop, you are fighting your own countrys police, military, government , large propaganda machine and then CCP.
Surveillance and information networks built by Huawei=CCP spying mainly for China, what then can be used to get dirt of your politicians etc worth to mention, to then used as black mail material to do exactly what CCP want them to do.
Essentially CCP has flooded Africa with money, built everything, they only know how its operated, they have bought your governments, so they essentially own everything. Even if you try create uprising against them, they are spying you, chancing public opinion against you, your government will see you as treat to them and paint you as terrorist and then even if you manage to take over the country, China might send its military to "help against terrorist insurgency", wipe their political enemies and properly invade the country.
Only way is to get Large movement to force your governments to push China out from Africa and you guys to start building your own countries. You have natural resources and work force, just need to get some population control so there is no famine (there needs to be enough food to everyone. Foreign aid does not anything but make things worse when you guys increase your population when there is artificially increased resources around.). Then start mining etc operations with hired experts from other countries if you dont have experts on your own and start making capital to build things your self. West has already developed lots of technology to help you out and we have made strives on environmental protection, so feel free to use that information to protect your natural resources like farm lands.
This is very complicated topic, but i hope you get my point. I genuinely wish Africa would start prosper, since this stagnation does not help anyone and only enables exploitation from corporations and countries like China. This way hopefully there is no need to migrate to other countries, since out systems simply cannot handle mass immigration that has been happening and i know those who come here are the rich and able, moving already limited number of better educated and well off people away from Africa that would be needed there to start building prosperous tomorrow. Maybe good start would be those who actually know English and have access to internet to start educating others on things like environmental protection, recycling, technology, farming and so on in grass root level. Leave the mysticism and religion, cause those seem to have negative impact on progress like Catholic mandate of not using condom and dont know where this come from but you can cure AIDS with raping virgin. Education and information should be good start far as i see. Just my two or three cents on topic.
@@Hellsong89 10 cents. Thanks for the answer.
You shouldn't have WeChat on your phone, period.
This. 100%.
Or TikTok
@@Bobspineable Or...you could use ANY OTHER messenger. You can use open source ones that support encryption.
Makes you understand why many Brits are against using Huawei equipment in the UK 5G infrastructure.
@@TheGuruStud using those probably get you in trouble in China. Especially since they don't need any law that says "thou shalt not use encypted apps", they can just show up at your doorstep and make your life miserable until you start talking and then they'll get you for anything incriminating.
PS.: if they are caught chatting with a "dissident" like serpentza, someone who talks shit about their country, through an unsupervised app then they're SURE to get in trouble.
I got out of Guangzhou at the start of last year too mate.
Live in Taiwan now, best move I ever made.
I mail things all over the world, and for the past few months, when I send something to Taiwan, the label auto-print out, *TAIWAN PROVINCE OF CHINA* so I think you need to start making some travel plans.
@@alexcarter8807 taiwan is china 2.0, what china couldve been without the ccp
@Prakaash Aonly if you were born or look like you are from a third country. Else wise you are living a normal life.
You will always being living at the tip of the spear in Taiwan. If the U.S. ever stops supporting them then it is all over the dying.
alex carter Although Taiwan might legally be a province of China (although I don’t know much about this), Taiwan is under no control by the CCP, nor is it even remotely communist. Taiwan is an independent democratic “country”.
I am so glad you didn't fall for that honeytrap. I know it was pretty obvious, but people can be vulnerable or easily distracted. Hope you are safe and continue to stay safe!
“Concerning”? More like unsettling. Bottom line is don’t go to China. It will save you from much grief
Well...I wouldnt write off a country of 1 b n just like that....as in life...choose the people you associate with very carefully...
It's a simple solution one might think.
@@habibhussain825 its the system.
never go near communists, even though they arent communists in the economical sense. they are in the social aspect
I'll certainly never visit China again, but China is a danger to the rest of the world. It has to be stopped. I think President Trump is making some good moves to contain China.
Wasa Bista unfortunately, trump is both corrupt and an idiot. If he’s our hope against China, we’ve already lost. SAD!!!
We need heroes of all kind. You're one of the many. Love is a farfetched word in this world now!
If someone is trying to track you, having a skype conversation can be a really bad idea.
I'm pretty sure he's used to use VPNs.
Luis Lara do u really think VPN is that secure? Lol
Amirul Amir VPNs are basically impenetrable unless they get help from the VPN company he uses or spend thousands of hours.
@@LoIis most VPN are very insecure and easy to track. If he doesn't know what he's doing he can be easily found with the VPN.
@@thatguy-qb6up not true at all any paid VPN service is next to impossible to crack unless you have the master key, unless they can get hold of your computer and planting surveillance on it they have ZERO chance of tracking you. the encryption is estimated to take 10 to the power of 2 times the age of the universe to crack even with modern super computers the brain cannot even comprehend that length of time.
Makes me wonder. I've never been to China, but the amount of Chinese having tried to text me in the last two years, (and trying to brush it off as a wrong text) if I am on anything of theirs
My little desire to visit China just got squashed and I've never been more relieved
Well, there is an enormous economic crisis going to happen in China, so their government will probably fall soon. Probably will be the same in the rest of the world but China's is going to be HUGE.
Visit Taiwan , Japan , South Korea or India instead , all of them have similar rich culture, food , traditions while also being free and democratic
Don't be discouraged. It's still a nice place to visit. Lots of history. Just try not to think about CCP when you're visiting. It's pretty easy not to see the ugly side of china.
A great look into what it's like living in China. Authoritarian government is not good, no matter whether it's a right- or left-wing fundamental ideology. Thanks for your reports!
@@yourdeal2408I don't think anybody here believes you 😂
@papascrumpeellh
Quite similar in Thailand, with having to report one's address etc. The Thai army has always had its tentacles in government here, coup after coup. They know where foreigners are, albeit it is very laidback and nothing like being followed or harassed as in China. Suspect Thai immigration took their cue from the Chinese.
Friend of mine had a similar experience- they had done research on him and then placed a very attractive woman next to him at the airport (China). This woman purported to be very knowledgable in the areas my friend worked in. She offered to give him a lift back to her place so they could discuss their mutual interest. My friend immediately spotted the trap - what are the odds of a beautiful woman sitting next to you, who also knows your area of expertise? - and politely declined the offer. My friend doesn't vlog or make anti-Chinese statements, he was just a guy in China, on a business trip. I mention this because don't think you have to be Ernesto Guevara to get their attention, they love picking up people, at all levels, who might later prove useful.
straight out of a movie
They love to get their hands on phones and laptops and a woman like that can be enough of a distraction to get the task done. Industrial espionage is very valuable.
This happened to me in China when I was there for only 5 days. Cliche "beauty" porcelain skin Chinese woman came to sit next to me smiling at me and trying to initiate conversation. The only problem I have with this is that I was only there for 3 days and not for business purposes. How does the CCP know to target me in such a short amount of time?
The Devil's Advocate cause she only wanted the D
You'd have to be thick not to think something was off about that
In Canada they found special police station that monitors chinese-born-canadian-citizen pretending to help them socially.
'' Clandestine Chinese police stations were reported to operate in Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto.''
They are all over the world
In the US as well
As a Hong Konger who tried to get along with China, I really know your feeling. Wish you have a good life out of China.
Greetings to you from the UK. Our thoughts are with you always.
Comrade remember China is your father and mother! We must see the truth and know sacrifice! Our enemies are every where and you must join as one! We are one so stop listening to the propaganda of the USA!
Unfortunately, China has won.
@@deejay7339 Has the fat lady started singing?
@@deejay7339 True, they got want right now, but they always regret done something which they think it was right at that time. Like the "Cultural Revolution". History is just repeating.
Do you not get yelled at for sitting on a chair in the middle of the street?
Taiwan is a free, independent country! China, you can be too! God is on your side for FREEDOM!!!!
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Everything that you said is truth an I completely agree with you. I believe it.