The 5 Most Illegal Things I Did in China

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  • I broke the the law in China many times, what were the top 5 illegal things I did in China? Come find out!
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  • @serpentza
    @serpentza  3 ปีที่แล้ว +435

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    • @ashleytodd9415
      @ashleytodd9415 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lol

    • @henron1282
      @henron1282 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      if you did operate youtube in china what vpn would you recommend? im a student whose about to study medicine there for the next 6 years , and wanted your opinion

    • @donniev8181
      @donniev8181 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ive heard that organ transplants are rather easy to get in china though, hmm?

    • @snigie1
      @snigie1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Grabs popcorn and awaits comments...!

    • @jimkirby9959
      @jimkirby9959 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      How can say "support sasha and I"? The objective case requires 'me.'

  • @anirudha5400
    @anirudha5400 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2868

    It's a mystery how this guy survived in China for 14 years.

    • @kevinc1200
      @kevinc1200 3 ปีที่แล้ว +176

      Yeh. You'd think he would gotten disappeared by the Chinese authorities into one of those ominous dark jails because they have such a hair trigger about someone speaking bad about the gov't. Or maybe the realities is a little different than how it is portrayed?

    • @gouriguge8532
      @gouriguge8532 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      That's truly wired if China is so terrible as he described why he still stays in China.

    • @anirudha5400
      @anirudha5400 3 ปีที่แล้ว +167

      @@gouriguge8532 he left china last year though

    • @gouriguge8532
      @gouriguge8532 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@anirudha5400 That's nice. I understood why he made so many videos even fake to blame China.

    • @anirudha5400
      @anirudha5400 3 ปีที่แล้ว +184

      @@gouriguge8532 when were they fake?

  • @jrcahill2
    @jrcahill2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1007

    When everything is illegal, they will always have something on you.

    • @AkamiChannel
      @AkamiChannel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Socialism means everything is for the people. But actually it just means the government owns the important stuff and they don't give a crap about you, the individual.

    • @gille2k
      @gille2k 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@AkamiChannel socialism != communism

    • @eaaeeeea
      @eaaeeeea 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@AkamiChannel I quite like to live in a socialist democratic country which actually takes care of it's citizens and is ranked the happiest country in the world. I don't fear of getting bankrupt by good healthcare nor student debt. I'm currently working in software development paying higher taxes happily while studying in an university with 0 direct cost to me. We also have strong laws protecting consumers and workers so I don't get ripped off by businesses or employers. Yes we have our problems here but overall Finland is quite awesome place to live in. Don't be a parrot repeating someone else's agenda, do your own research and be open to the idea that other ways of living can also be good for an individual.

    • @natassa1235
      @natassa1235 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@eaaeeeea as a Swede I agree!

    • @lightsnaketv
      @lightsnaketv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@eaaeeeea your socialist dream will not last long ,it is only possible today becouse of the freedom your country had years ago but this socialism of yours one day will destroy your country's economy completly ...just wait for it .

  • @simulify8726
    @simulify8726 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1024

    Guy basically lived in China for 14 years, became a teacher, a bodyguard, a motorcyclist, a vlogger and youtuber, broke so many laws, had many confrontation with police and safely escaped from China. What a life Winston has lived.

    • @seniorarubia
      @seniorarubia 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂

    • @adrianakusieluskus8941
      @adrianakusieluskus8941 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😎😁😎😁😎😁 🎥🍿

    • @madinge711
      @madinge711 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Don't forget about his youth in south africa

    • @quackss6384
      @quackss6384 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@madinge711 that shit was crazy

    • @arfanmedni7294
      @arfanmedni7294 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Flogging a unlicensed drone

  • @jonnda
    @jonnda 3 ปีที่แล้ว +479

    Don’t mess with drugs in china... but exporting lots of fentanyl is ok apparently.

    • @LDuke-pc7kq
      @LDuke-pc7kq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      It's warfare honestly, and greed always

    • @Aegis---
      @Aegis--- 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Or research chemicals lmao

    • @UmamiPapi
      @UmamiPapi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@LDuke-pc7kq A cold war. Same as the Brits did with opium to China.

    • @nicholasmaude6906
      @nicholasmaude6906 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Doesn't China export crystal-meth by the ton?

    • @jonnda
      @jonnda 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@nicholasmaude6906 I haven’t heard that, but I wouldn’t doubt it.

  • @rumrunner8019
    @rumrunner8019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1678

    The number one biggest crime Winston ever committed in China: That time he tried to rap

    • @Cigaristocat
      @Cigaristocat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      this tbh.

    • @scintillam_dei
      @scintillam_dei 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Rap is crap and should be illegal because it promotes evils like pride, drug addiction, murder, racism against whites (or in China's case potentially against non-Chinese), greed, theft and other nonsense.

    • @Info_hazard
      @Info_hazard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      @@scintillam_dei virgin

    • @bylakopbhu4852
      @bylakopbhu4852 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I remember that video

    • @RyanMiddleton_the_Rhino
      @RyanMiddleton_the_Rhino 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@scintillam_dei Physiologically, anything that has a back-beat is not good. It has been proven that the body responds better to front-beats.

  • @moondragon05
    @moondragon05 3 ปีที่แล้ว +775

    fellow inmate: what are you in for?
    me: forgot to tell the cops about our slumber party
    fellow inmate: hardcore

    • @jamess1787
      @jamess1787 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Slumber party that was a drunken orgy. Sentence: life imprisonment

    • @gagamba9198
      @gagamba9198 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      _'fellow inmate: hardcore'_
      Oh yeah, that too.

    • @Redmanticore
      @Redmanticore 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      "i wrote fanfiction as a kid, now I cant go to school because of lowered social credit score."

    • @nichellebinion4569
      @nichellebinion4569 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂

  • @tapak3926
    @tapak3926 3 ปีที่แล้ว +512

    I went to China a couple years ago to visit family and got refused access to every hotel in a small town with my Canadian passport until I just went to one and told them i forgot my id card and talked my way in. Not a fun experience

    • @richardtheeighth4431
      @richardtheeighth4431 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Well at least you had a roof over your head for the night, and hopefully you didn't get into trouble. 🙏🤭

    • @kunzang5136
      @kunzang5136 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Foreigners leave but hotels might have to deal with authority if they break the laws.

    • @jerrycurl637
      @jerrycurl637 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@kunzang5136 Like what? Taking one too many dumps in the hotel toilet?

    • @kunzang5136
      @kunzang5136 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@jerrycurl637 if they say you break the law, you did. Some of the so called laws are so broad anyone could break, like "stirring trouble."

    • @jerrycurl637
      @jerrycurl637 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@kunzang5136 i'm glad i wasn't born in that shit hole and have yet to experience their "way of life"

  • @jia2001
    @jia2001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +222

    When people in the west talk about discrimination and racims, I don’t think those of us who lived in China share the same definition!

    • @filip3148
      @filip3148 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yeah send all the Karens to China. Poor China.

    • @drunkdrftr
      @drunkdrftr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yup, most people that don’t have a passport cannot comprehend the outside world and their life in that context

    • @roveringreverend
      @roveringreverend 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Racism is everywhere;
      I used to ride town busses and once I was in the bus with an African man, he was a PhD... my wife was with me and translated how the people spoke so bad of this poor guy... but after he went they spoke so good words of how handsome I was... now 12 years later I can only confirm that this racism is wide spread among Chinese all over the world.

    • @kgsniper4850
      @kgsniper4850 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@filip3148 or BLM.

    • @hardgay7537
      @hardgay7537 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I try telling people "you white people complain so much about racism. Among us Asians, that's just the norm."
      I realize I could phrase it better, but the reactions I get are just too funny, I can't help myself.

  • @eugeneng2721
    @eugeneng2721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +217

    The hotel thing is totally true. They are terrified of losing their operating licence if caught. I couldn't get a room even with local help and I'm Chinese. (That was 5 years ago.)

    • @mlwee6796
      @mlwee6796 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The same with Russia... And the Russians charge you to register.

    • @bigwendigo2253
      @bigwendigo2253 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Sheesh authoritarian countries/dictatorships are the worst

    • @11Yaten
      @11Yaten 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mlwee6796 I really doubt the Russia part

    • @mlwee6796
      @mlwee6796 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@11YatenI was there, twice. just google.

    • @11Yaten
      @11Yaten 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mlwee6796 I was there for 21 years

  • @roarlisfang2860
    @roarlisfang2860 3 ปีที่แล้ว +282

    One of my foreigner friends once went to Kunming to stay with his local relatives, and he actually informed the police. The police station master was like, "What, I don't know that's a law either"

    • @1231231233922
      @1231231233922 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      A lot of policemen had no idea about it or didn't take it seriously even in Beijing for quite some time, every time I'd come to register they'd be annoyed that they had to fill in extra paperwork. But it changed after 2016 and now they even call you or send a local security guard to fine you and make you register (at least in Shanghai)

  • @michaelmolloy365
    @michaelmolloy365 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    I was doing traffic control in Queensland Australia and a hire car pulled up at our work site so I went up to the window to tell them that the wait would be about 15 minutes. The window rolled down and worried young Chinese couple with little English stared wide eyed at me and promptly handed over all their paperwork. Passports, boarding passes and other ID. I laughed and shook my head trying to explain so then they tried giving me money. Well that just made me laugh harder which seemed to worry them more. One of the women on the job spoke Chinese so I got her to talk to them on the 2 way. After a few minutes they relaxed and she told me they'd just arrived in the country and thought I was either Police or Military because of my Hi Vis uniform all the strobe lights and signage. Needless to say they drove off much relieved when the road was cleared. lol

    • @Ceramic_Discs
      @Ceramic_Discs 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      How they reacted sounds so cute 😊

  • @SimpleChineseYoutube
    @SimpleChineseYoutube 3 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    The hotel rule is one of the worst. I can't count how many times I've planned a trip somewhere and then had to call about 10 hotels until I could finally find one that accepted foreigners, and, surprise!, it's always the more expensive ones...

    • @H1kari_1
      @H1kari_1 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Clarissa1986 Yeah this is discrimination and illegal in plenty countries. But what point is bringing this up when we are talking about China where they don't even hide their hate for foreign people.

  • @logosnomos3794
    @logosnomos3794 3 ปีที่แล้ว +365

    I always hated getting rejected from cheaper hotels and ended up staying in "black hotels", really dodgey places.

    • @whoelsebutmeofcoursei
      @whoelsebutmeofcoursei 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Any thing that has "black" in its name is bound to be evil, damn!
      Except the things that have "dark" or "deep" on their names, but it's for the same effect!

    • @brandonphillips7216
      @brandonphillips7216 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why so dark

    • @Carryp
      @Carryp 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or sleeping at a KTV for that great rest

    • @MrWarthog
      @MrWarthog 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@whoelsebutmeofcoursei das raycis

    • @mikespike2099
      @mikespike2099 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@brandonphillips7216 to hide all the harlots riding small pickles!

  • @ananamu2248
    @ananamu2248 3 ปีที่แล้ว +168

    I am appalled at how insane and controlling to the point of paranoia these rules are ....they just make them without any awareness of implementation...I find it incomprehensible

    • @Zachomara
      @Zachomara 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's what New York State does, too.

    • @ananamu2248
      @ananamu2248 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Zachomara really? Tell me more ? I see a world view that usa and china are polarities ...and we are ,as a world ,being exposed to the extremes ..order and chaos ....and each side has a bit of both...one thing covid has done is expose the infiltration and insidious purchases that control basic living needs...I like to hear all sides

    • @Zachomara
      @Zachomara 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ananamu2248 NYS, still technically has hope (unlike China without removing their government from power).
      However:
      Cuomo (the governor) when he was first elected was just another in a long line of statewide politicians who have been "rooting out" corruption only to fall for the exact type of corruption they were campaigning against (i.e. Sheldon Silver, Elliot Sptizer, etc).
      Cuomo did the following during his term:
      1. Upon the Sandy Hook shooting (not in NYS) Cuomo took it upon himself to attempt to ban "assault weapons" which in his rush to ban things like pistol grips on rifles, also made belt fed machine guns completely legal for a year and a half until gun rights groups pointed that out. There's more to that story, but it sums up how stupid the so called "SAFE Act" is.
      2. A nuclear power plant in Oswego, NY was attempting to get the governor's support to invest in renovating the transmission lines so they would be able to provide cheap electricity to New York City. Cuomo not only didn't help but blocked development of the transmission lines that already existed but needed to be upgraded. This resulted in an inefficient power grid and the closure of the nuclear plant, shutting down nearly 1,500 well paying jobs.
      3. Remington (the gun company) was in Ilion, NY and Cuomo used his power to target them until Remington shut down their plant there. This includes any firearms that would go to the police. (they attempted to stop sales to NYS police in protest, but it was too late already). 5,000 jobs were lost due to the governor's actions.
      4. During the beginning of the pandemic, Cuomo sent active COVID patients into Upstate (non-city) nursing homes, resulting in the deaths of at least 13,000 elderly (more likely 20,000. The final number isn't tallied yet.)
      5. During the middle of the pandemic, Cuomo attempted to send National Guard troops into Upstate hospitals to seize all (and I mean all) the ventilators in Upstate New York to bring to NYC and Long Island. He backed down after he realized the New York National Guard is mostly manned by Upstate residents.
      6. My family was visiting my mother and he was wearing the armband floaties because he was 4 at the time (before COVID) and the lifeguard yelled at us because apparently armbands weren't allowed in NYS anymore. She then goes to quote the NYS regulation on it when we ask her about it.
      7. NYS pays the highest amount of taxes out of any state (save maybe California, and I mean maybe) while almost 20% of its revenue comes from Wall Street. Meanwhile the roads and public schools continue failing. Pipes burst on a nearly constant basis in all three cities I've lived in New York State. The DMV is backed up in every city not because there are too many people for the area, but because there aren't even enough DMV workers for the DMV itself (half the stations are completely empty).
      8. The only Democrat I ever voted for got into office because he ran a clean campaign and didn't attack his opponent. The moment he gets into office he does a complete 180 and starts laying down the attacks like he was voted in to kill people.
      9. My grandparents owned an island and tried to put a dock on it because it was the habitat for some kind of threatened minnow. They had issues even getting the permit and had to commission a study to be able to get the dock built. But the commission found out that the dock itself would actually help that minnow population because it provided shelter for them. So it took them anywhere from $20,000 to put a floating dock into the water (not kidding, it was four poles driven in and the dock was just a floating dock to rise and lower with the water levels.

    • @ananamu2248
      @ananamu2248 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Zachomara thanks zach ....sounds more like stupidity and yes ,not seeing the ramifications to rules being applied where the didnt think to look ....no leeway or exceptions to the rule....its thinking in linear fashion ,not wholistically ...focus is on control .. medical is like that too

    • @fs5775
      @fs5775 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ananamu2248 and China's order eventually erupted in chaos with covid... millions of deaths hidden all to save face

  • @marstondavis
    @marstondavis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    I went to China 5 times during the '90's. Strange place. Can't wait to never go back...ever!

    • @issy4895
      @issy4895 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thats a long time ago, even despite being 20 odd years ago you wouldn't go?

    • @lucywucyyy
      @lucywucyyy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      china has only gotten worse since then

    • @MultiRainday
      @MultiRainday 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@lucywucyyy based on your experience?

    • @lucywucyyy
      @lucywucyyy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@MultiRainday you dont need to go there to know that, its going back to the authoritarian shithole it used to be

    • @MultiRainday
      @MultiRainday 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@lucywucyyy what makes you say so? Because your media says so?

  • @exodus4033
    @exodus4033 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    I had no idea that you couldn't visit government workers at their home. A former student of mine is a government worker and I went to his home every week for 5 or so years. Now that you mention it he always waited for me at the compound gate, probably had an agreement with the guards to let me in.

    • @disbsam333
      @disbsam333 ปีที่แล้ว

      What if they visit you at your home? Or at a hotel? 😂😂😂

  • @analysis1018
    @analysis1018 3 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    I liked seeing some old footage about your friends' Christmas party in Huizhou. And for #5, your way of getting a hotel for the night is very brave, and it must have been difficult to ride a motorcycle when you are very tired.

    • @IAMATTHETOP
      @IAMATTHETOP 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@jundu8471 his entire channel isn't anti China, not until the very time he got under the party radar

    • @qwertyqwert2818
      @qwertyqwert2818 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jundu8471 Check his old vids. THEN comment.

    • @InnateOwl
      @InnateOwl 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jundu8471 sucks that "your motherland" is absolutely abhorrent

  • @sophisticatedphilistine
    @sophisticatedphilistine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +314

    In this video Winston, the gangsta bikie, admits to watching porn, staying in hotels and having late night conversations with police officers.... I feel violated.

    • @richardtheeighth4431
      @richardtheeighth4431 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Some may think this ironic, others would argue that Winston is just recalling and sharing his past experiences and being open and honest about it. Either way the video is fun, interesting and educational.🙏👍

    • @Jozamendo
      @Jozamendo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@richardtheeighth4431 in one of the videos they weren't able to get to a hotel beacuse of what he was talki about. They had to sleep in a abandoned shack.. he'll tell that story to his daughter when she grows up.. 👍

    • @richardtheeighth4431
      @richardtheeighth4431 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Jozamendo
      When things don't go as planned when it is needed, one must improvise. I think Winston's daughter would be thrilled to hear her father tell her the sleeping in an abandoned shack story
      Thanks for taking the time comment and share your thoughts. 🙏😀

    • @theantitheocrat6232
      @theantitheocrat6232 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      What a square :D
      Him not you :D

    • @menooby2653
      @menooby2653 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      BTW watching porn is not illegal in China, but prolly wouldn't do it openly. The law only mentions distribution and production

  • @YGZ
    @YGZ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    The whole not being able to stay in a hotel because you're a foreigner definitely resonates with me. I remember walking around Qingdao for about 2 hours trying to find a hotel that would allow a foreigner. I was even with my Chinese wife at the time. Ridiculous!

    • @agalah408
      @agalah408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I can sympathise with that. I spent some time in Qingdao. Glad I had a hotel close to the town square, as it was -12 (c) that week. I was picking up chunks of sea-ice off the beach! A highlight was a visit to the Qingdao beer museum.

    • @jSyndeoMusic
      @jSyndeoMusic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      My Chinese wife and I are hoping to travel through China someday, if the current government ever decides to calm the heck down. Of course, there’s no way we would dare set foot in it right now, or anytime soon… we only got married this year, though, so it’s unfortunate that I really haven’t gotten the chance to even visit China before it got so much worse under Xi.

  • @user-up3dj3dh5e
    @user-up3dj3dh5e 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    I used to stay in “no foreigners” hotels by using a Hong Kong ID card. It was an expired ID card I got after studying for a year in Hong Kong, they don’t actually check if it’s expired or not, just that you’ve got Chinese ID (I’m white)
    Might be worth a try if you wanna save some money, I used to stay in some of the worker hostels, just say you’re from Hong Kong

  • @Oneshotwonder002
    @Oneshotwonder002 3 ปีที่แล้ว +171

    Honorable mention: USE VPN haha
    but most commonly you've probably upset that sacred, holy, on high "social harmony"

  • @navidpey194
    @navidpey194 3 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Omg the hotel situation... worst experience I had in my life, also trying to exchange RMB to dollar, no bank would take foreigners and most recently before I left you couldn’t buy a SIM card with your foreign passport.

    • @whoelsebutmeofcoursei
      @whoelsebutmeofcoursei 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      That's some Sodom & Gomorrah shit.
      Might as well beat the foreigners on arrival for the crime of not being a national.

    • @jw4195
      @jw4195 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      everything need chinese's ID to make a lot of thing under the big control, It is not friendly foreign have a disengaged travel in china land.

    • @jantschierschky3461
      @jantschierschky3461 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@TopVillain that time is gone

    • @jaydee6268
      @jaydee6268 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@TopVillain Taiwan is the new center of gravity.

    • @thebranch3874
      @thebranch3874 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh yeah, that's correct

  • @lukewbez
    @lukewbez 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I've mentioned on another of your videos before, but when I was staying in Nanjing. I was rejected from 4 different hotels. I can't even fathom that happening the other way around

    • @yzorgone
      @yzorgone ปีที่แล้ว +1

      we should just have the same rules for chinese that travel to our countries.. that will teach them :)

  • @maxyi2672
    @maxyi2672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    “With this phone, you can start manufacturing your own pngrahpic contents in China.” That’s gonna a great line for a phone ad.

  • @catbreath007
    @catbreath007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +500

    How come you didn't mention wearing your "Winnie the Pooh" T shirt in public 🤪

    • @mikespike2099
      @mikespike2099 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Xinnie the Poo and his Commie Kung Flu Crew 🐻 😷 🇨🇳

    • @bigship1758
      @bigship1758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Because Winnie the Pooh isn't banned in China, only the movie was banned.

    • @mikespike2099
      @mikespike2099 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @PANDEMIC BY CCP AND XITLER that’s a great profile picture! Xitler is real!

    • @charlenekim5533
      @charlenekim5533 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @PANDEMIC BY CCP AND XITLER That is “习特勒” Chinese for “Xithler.”

    • @davesy6969
      @davesy6969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      If he mentioned Winnie the Pooh he'd be in real trouble.
      He would have been on the next plane out of china without his hunny.

  • @Obi_boy
    @Obi_boy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +240

    Free Tibet, Free Hong Kong , Free Inner Mongolia, Free Xinjiang, Free Macao, free Myanmar and protect Taiwan

    • @studagr8765
      @studagr8765 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Taiwan 🇹🇼#1

    • @donniev8181
      @donniev8181 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Joseph Berg no he isn't here either

    • @ayi3455
      @ayi3455 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Free the world.....!!

    • @jcjc4979
      @jcjc4979 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Popular thats a tree hugger talk. Try free your self in China. And good luck with that.

    • @ThePandafriend
      @ThePandafriend 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You wrote Southern Mongolia and East Turkistan wrong.

  • @Mark_Ocain
    @Mark_Ocain 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    When I worked in IT, I had co-workers in Shenzhen. one of them was a total TH-cam junky and was crying to me that she could only watch via our corporate intranet and begged me to find her a VPN that might work in China. After I warned her that she was probably breaking the law having a VPN to watch decadent, counter-revolutionary content LOL, We found one that sort of worked - but man it was difficult.

    • @1231231233922
      @1231231233922 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      almost any of the top-10 payed VPNs are working well in China, it's hard to find a free VPN

    • @Caitlfiora
      @Caitlfiora 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is ok to use VPN to watch decadent, counter-revolutionary content in China, but it is illegal to build and sell VPN, create and spread corrupt, counter-revolutionary content.

  • @nwankwochike8167
    @nwankwochike8167 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The more you learn about China, the more you value the liberty you enjoy in the US.

    • @MaeRose26
      @MaeRose26 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      fr i feel extremely privelaged now and have a better understanding of the world. for once, im thankful to be American

    • @gokaren420
      @gokaren420 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes. I cannot imagine living without freedoms.

    • @mycelia_ow
      @mycelia_ow 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hardly, our American liberties are slowly going away. The US isn't the only free country, but it is certainly the only one that's been losing a ton of freedoms. Just look at what the sup. court did last year, yeah and that directly affected me. Stuff like that reminds me the US is just a western China.

  • @gunnar6674
    @gunnar6674 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    2:35 Oh, goodness - that sounds like the beginning of a very stupid international incident.
    "South African secret agent arrested for espionage, while riding on a stolen police motorcycle on the border to Hong Kong."

  • @MichaelGordonFinance
    @MichaelGordonFinance 3 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    When I was there, I would say bad things about the government outside with my brother, but I did so with the awareness that most people probably had no idea what I was saying.

    • @ballroomboy
      @ballroomboy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Face to face is fine. But if you try to create gatherings or posting online is the problem.

  • @mikenekosama4426
    @mikenekosama4426 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Watching your videos makes me so glad I live in LAID BACK Japan! I can't imagine having to report to the police to stay at a friend's house! Or being subjected to a police check in the middle of the night! Or being subjected to strict TH-cam laws! And if I wanted to, I could take a motorcycle trip throughout Japan with no problem, as long as I had a motorcycle license. And I've stayed at countless hotels, inns, hostels and B&Bs in Japan with no problem! 日本、万歳!

  • @XXXX-yc6wv
    @XXXX-yc6wv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    As he says in the video, the haphazard enforcement of govt directives makes it pretty much impossible not to break laws. One outdated and very annoying regulation in Vietnam was not being able to share a hotel room with your partner unless you were married. It wasn't a legal requirement and city hotels didn't observe it, but smaller out of the way towns would always push it (presumably in an attempt to rent out two rooms rather than one). Super annoying to have to argue with hotel staff after a long day riding motorbikes in mud and rain.

    • @gokaren420
      @gokaren420 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So you have to show proof of being married?

  • @wilfredshum3703
    @wilfredshum3703 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    If you being a foreigner can be rejected by hotels, you can imagine how desperate you are in case of some emergency health issues. Will you be admitted at the hospital?

  • @Ap-sz4nb
    @Ap-sz4nb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Because of my job as a technician and salesman for steelplants, i am frequently travelling the East (India, China, Bangladesh, etc) and also countries like Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia etc, but I have to say China is the most difficult when you‘re not in the Big Cities.
    One example is that small plants are in the rural areas and if these plants arent the big ones, its quite difficult to get hotel unless the plant organizes it for you.
    In addition China is the country in which the least people speak english and dislike / mistrust foreigner the most.
    Fun fact : Iran is the easiest, friendliest and most comfortable business trip destination you can imagine. Unfortunately, due to all the sanctions my trips and business in Iran has been cut off.

  • @stanleydolan5609
    @stanleydolan5609 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Wasn’t aware of the lodging laws, that explains one situation that I experienced. Thanks for the heads up on that law.

  • @boxindaw5932
    @boxindaw5932 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I loveeee your videos. What a great insight into China, cheers from another fellow South African

  • @pranavsambamurti7746
    @pranavsambamurti7746 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    "In an enlightened society, laws are simple and easy to follow. In an unenlightened society, laws are complex and impossible to follow." - Manly P. Hall ✌

  • @lamarjohnson804
    @lamarjohnson804 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I think one of the ways to deal with the Chinese government is to straightly practice reciprocity. This applies to the number of reporters, the way companies are listed on the stock exchanges, the number of foreign diplomats, and etc. Take away their special privileges as a developing country.

  • @sushiNramen
    @sushiNramen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A 12+ hour ride holy cow. Glad you're here to share us your stories!

  • @pfrillele
    @pfrillele ปีที่แล้ว

    The best thing of your channel and you personally is that you are honest(as far as someone can tell).Thank you for your hard work.Keep on!

  • @mybutthasteeth1347
    @mybutthasteeth1347 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Damn Winston, I had faith in you before but not I know that you stayed at friend's houses I can't look at you the same way. I mean damn, what's next, murder? Thoughts and prayers to all the heroic police that have dedicated themselves to preventing such horrific acts and protecting the people of China from such barbarian ways

  • @giabarrone7422
    @giabarrone7422 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This is really interesting. I have spent time in a number of small hotels in rural China visiting factories, but our offices in HK and China always arranged all the travel and accommodations for any group of foreigners of varying nationalities. I didn't realize the amount of work that likely went on behind the scenes to make those visits happen so seamlessly. I also understand their panic when the fog would roll in or a van would break down, and we would be unexpectedly trapped on the mainland without a place to stay.
    Also, I was given a local Chinese insurance "gold card", and it was impressed upon me how important it was to carry on my body at all times, otherwise I could be left dying in the street. Thankfully I always made it back across the border when ill, and never had to test it out. Regular medical visits in HK including the RX (for things like strep throat) cost less than my visit deductible on US insurance though. You know your country's medical system is grossly exploitative, when you pay 10k a year just for the insurance, and it is cheaper not to use it in foreign countries.

  • @katherinesmith8873
    @katherinesmith8873 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Congrats on 1m subs. KEEP GOING, MY MAN!

  • @elizabethjones5041
    @elizabethjones5041 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love your vids, thank you for doing and sharing them x

  • @eimdeima
    @eimdeima 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I was in Baoding in 2006 and the hotel next to the one I was in had a sign in Chinese and the English underneath said "No Aliens Allowed" make me chuckle...😅

  • @alexanderchenf1
    @alexanderchenf1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Being a white African was No. 1.
    I was born in China. I lived there for 26 years. I have been out of China for 4 to 5 years. I don’t miss it one bit.

  • @user-pz7gp2vl4g
    @user-pz7gp2vl4g 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Respect to you Winston, I've been fortunate to get around the world a lot (13 years in Southern Africa) but can't hold a candle to you. Great work, entertaining and informative. Thank you 😊.

  • @hpatuan
    @hpatuan 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you 🙏 for all of your videos. Great work!

  • @nelevartelvanni3031
    @nelevartelvanni3031 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Hey Serpentza i don't know if you'll see this but i wanted to say I'm a big supporter of your work to show the tyranny of the ccp

    • @serpentza
      @serpentza  3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Thanks mate!

    • @johnrhodes3350
      @johnrhodes3350 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's especially important now everyone should be able to see where the world is headed with the 'Great Reset' propelled by Covid19 Emergency Regulations and the Transhumanist agenda injection experiments

  • @EdSki1970
    @EdSki1970 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    "A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick"

  • @peskydogsandtheirownersdiv5
    @peskydogsandtheirownersdiv5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Top- class journalism! % stars !

  • @thamsanqathusi9671
    @thamsanqathusi9671 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your story telling is on level 100. With that Background music👌

  • @The25Sister
    @The25Sister 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The sixth illegal activity: breathing.

  • @Maxtastic101
    @Maxtastic101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I had to sneak into hotels in Beijing back in 2009. It's not just the small towns!

  • @ptptpt123
    @ptptpt123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am happy you are well now. What adventures! And lived to tell the tale!

  • @sirloin4372
    @sirloin4372 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video Winston!

  • @schnertblatt
    @schnertblatt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I wish PBS would make a show about you! I see all these things and how they treat foreigners and the scams that they run and I really wish that more people saw this. China doesn't deserve to have tourists visit! I really wish some big news outfit (That was why I mentioned PBS) would do an exposé on how China treats / thinks of tourists and foreigners.

  • @portaltwo
    @portaltwo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So nice to see your wife in one of your videos again (2:11), even if only a "cameo" appearance. I trust you are all doing well! 🤗

    • @serpentza
      @serpentza  3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes, thank you!

  • @ProgressIsTheOnlyEvolution
    @ProgressIsTheOnlyEvolution 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love your honesty and these videos where you compare the cultures.

  • @edmcwilliams6524
    @edmcwilliams6524 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Winston Thank You For The Great Video.

  • @NewGoldStandard
    @NewGoldStandard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Serp (may I call you Serp?), you are the man. Mad luv and much respect, as always.

  • @minimanadam
    @minimanadam ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You have really taught me alot about China, I knew so little

  • @jonyboy3338
    @jonyboy3338 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just didn`t know many of those things, thanks for the information!

  • @mcj4418
    @mcj4418 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    New follower here. Awsome work, keep it up!

  • @mohibmalik5792
    @mohibmalik5792 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Hey man, it's been less than a week I discovered your channel, and only have been able to watch 4-5 random videos, and I must say the content is very interesting.
    I am enjoying your brilliant work a lot. Thank you for sharing these experiences with the world.
    TC Mate, keep up the good work.🙏

  • @ann3856
    @ann3856 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A nice and early one for me.9:25 PM here in South Africa. xxxxxxxx

  • @devon.a
    @devon.a ปีที่แล้ว

    Love your work ☺️

  • @cortlincabbiness7726
    @cortlincabbiness7726 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video

  • @greyguy9550
    @greyguy9550 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    When you said number 5 it almost triggered my PTSD lol. This was probably during my second week in China so I didn't know much, anyway: One time my agent booked me into a hotel in a town called Bengbu, and this was one of those unlicensed hotels for foreigners, I didn't know what was going on while they bribed the hotel staff to let me stay the night I'm guessing, and like at midnight that night while I was sleeping the police burst in there dragging me to the lobby with nothing but boxers and a wifey on. My agent wasn't picking up her phone and I sat there in the lobby for probably an hour before they could find someone who spoke English.
    Worst part is at the end of the night they didn't want to do the paperwork so they said I can stay in the hotel as long as I was out the next morning, which was useless because I was supposed to get on a train to Harbin on the other side of the country the next morning at 6...

  • @braaaptv6028
    @braaaptv6028 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    So true, I was last year driving through China and at least 15 hotels did not want us

  • @jerrycurl637
    @jerrycurl637 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Looking forward to more of your stories from China!!!! Thank you soooo much

  • @wanderingwondering3437
    @wanderingwondering3437 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting video!

  • @kevinhayes7830
    @kevinhayes7830 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great video Winston how about a vidio of how your daily life has changed since leaving China 👍

  • @RoarofdalioN
    @RoarofdalioN 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The negatives of China greatly outweigh the positives, I seriously can't even see myself going there on vacation

  • @lynnwood7205
    @lynnwood7205 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for relating your experiences.

  • @lamarjohnson804
    @lamarjohnson804 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for the wonderful reporting. I enjoy reading your experience in China. And I agree with you in your views on China.

  • @sarahwang2523
    @sarahwang2523 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I was laughing so hard while i was watching it. This is true, I know that because I am Chinese !

  • @leonguyen896
    @leonguyen896 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've actually checked in with the local police while visiting family friends. My friends and the first officer we spoke with didn't know about this law and had to contact the supervisor. I found out about the law through a travel agency website that caters specifically to tourism in China. You must keep the registration documents on your person at all times.

  • @lerkio6566
    @lerkio6566 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I liked this video. Seems to be presented better than recent content.

  • @vileplume111
    @vileplume111 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's the kind of content we were waiting for hahaha

  • @alvinzolmedo
    @alvinzolmedo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Hi Winston. You forgot to include flying drones in China. Pretty ridiculous laws there. Unbelievable actually.

    • @mlwee6796
      @mlwee6796 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ya drones. And yet China produce the best drones in the world, the DJi

    • @Caitlfiora
      @Caitlfiora 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ridiculous? no idea what are you talking about

    • @davesy6969
      @davesy6969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mlwee6796 The drones dji sell in the west are built with proper quality control because consumers demand it and there are consumer protection laws that are enforced. Winston mentioned it in one of his videos.

    • @alvinzolmedo
      @alvinzolmedo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Caitlfiora that’s because you have drank the kool Aid. Tsk tsk

    • @Caitlfiora
      @Caitlfiora 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alvinzolmedo O I just forgot you are not Chinese, that why you think our laws are wired

  • @andrewmountford3608
    @andrewmountford3608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Yep, I stopped one night at a mates house in Bantian - the local police arrived at 11pm. Someone on the condo compound had reported me; someone knew a gweiloh lived on the compound but noticed 1 extra gweiloh on the compound & reported me.

  • @anhlee6220
    @anhlee6220 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I learn something new today. Thank you.

  • @christinedowd1820
    @christinedowd1820 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    BTW love your honesty!

  • @dhlong1697
    @dhlong1697 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So much needed this reminder today, as have been contemplating a return to the Middle Kingdom plantation of late. Nah, don't think so. Got out in '19 myself, glory years for foreigners long gone.

  • @xiaoxinghuli
    @xiaoxinghuli 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This reminds me my stay overnight at the top of Hua Shan with my Chinese friend. He told me he is going to book a place for two, but I should not go because I'm a foreigner and they could reject me. I didn't understand why, it was somewhere in 2008.

  • @afrlala3593
    @afrlala3593 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for sharing.

  • @davidrussell8689
    @davidrussell8689 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting and sincere. Good info for many people I guess . 👍

  • @markstead9624
    @markstead9624 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Sounds like KOOL-AID 19 rules that first one !!
    Heads up Serpentza !
    Very very interesting stuff ! ...Thanks..

  • @netscapeinthewood3345
    @netscapeinthewood3345 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Dude that porn thing is so true! Its blocked online, however everyone still has access though USB drives and illegal website downloads. Most of my CN friends (now in their 20-30’s) told me they had “sex education” through porn, because this subject is still such a taboo in CN. I hope this will be improved one day, lets face it: sex is part of human being, it shouldnt be banned or people shouldnt feel awkward about in a conversation.

    • @30803080308030803081
      @30803080308030803081 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Isn’t easy to figure out, however? Humans have instincts for that. Humans were making babies for a hundred thousand years before porn or sex education.

    • @gezzapk
      @gezzapk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@30803080308030803081 I think you don't understand what sex education is for.. there's a reason they have 1 child policy's

    • @drunkdrftr
      @drunkdrftr 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gezzapk i search sex in Spanish and always got some hits

  • @JasonJohnsonMa
    @JasonJohnsonMa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I found this channel just randomly and I love it. I feel like I have a friend who went to China for 14 years and is describing all of the interesting stories and the differences. And I don't even have to buy this guy lunch. :) Seriously it's really interesting to get a westerners perspective on China where I'm just basically held to what we see on CNN. Thanks for putting yourself out there and for telling the stories. It's pretty cool man You're having an impact on the world. Not a lot of us can say that

  • @NightingaleSong
    @NightingaleSong 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your home videos drove home to me what a difficult transition it must have been for you and C-Milk to go from your apartments in China to living in the USA/LA now. Heck, even moving within the same metro area is a pain. You have my sympathies.

  • @mlwee6796
    @mlwee6796 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    In Russia, you have to register when you stay overnight anywhere, at hotels or friend's homes. You can be fined and jailed for failing to register.

    • @Leshic2
      @Leshic2 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow, really? Russia as well? How do you know?

    • @mlwee6796
      @mlwee6796 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Leshic2 I visited Russia twice, in 2016 & 2019. Stayed in hotel in Moscow and hotel charged me a fee to register. Also stayed in hostel at Yekaterinburg and they too charged me a fee to register. Also stayed at friend's apartment in Moscow and it's a hassle to register if stay at friend's home. Friend need to get forms from post office , fill in and submit. And come back another day to collect registration.

  • @randallbro6749
    @randallbro6749 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Yo!!! Wii footage! It's so cool to see this old footage 😭

    • @UmamiPapi
      @UmamiPapi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      She started laughing after seeing the slit eye option and the camera went in to see if there was resemblance.

  • @Igeeckow
    @Igeeckow 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love your videos

  • @Legendhalfliferrr
    @Legendhalfliferrr 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    14 year+ journalistic expedition, what a hero, great content.

  • @digitalsparky
    @digitalsparky 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    If I recall correctly, there is one thing you forgot to mention would be using a VPN, right?
    Thanks for the awesome vid, Winston.
    Take care & stay safe!

    • @brucesmith9144
      @brucesmith9144 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, even the Chinese citizens admitted they used VPNs.

    • @ZeldaZiplock
      @ZeldaZiplock 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@brucesmith9144 Chinese citizens on VPNs mostly fall into two categories. They are government people like the wu mao who are sanctioned or they are employed by companies selling offshore. The latter are permitted VPNs as they need them to conduct business offshore. Staff frequently use these
      to circumvent the Great Firewall.

    • @analysis1018
      @analysis1018 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Some Chinese citizens get their own VPNs. Some Chinese post content that is non political .

    • @shengyoulin2143
      @shengyoulin2143 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ZeldaZiplock you can deploy VPN for your company if it is for business purpose in China. Learn something.

    • @ZeldaZiplock
      @ZeldaZiplock 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@shengyoulin2143 I get it that English is not something you're 100% with, but that's exactly what I said. Companies that need a VPN for their business are free to have them. In any case, I am well aware of this.

  • @contentsniffer
    @contentsniffer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I simply can't get over that a place called Business Hotel cannot allow foreigners to stay there.
    Do you get the impression that most hotels would like you to stay, but just can't?

  • @skibum6422
    @skibum6422 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You have lived a very interesting life my friend, which is awesome.